Op-ed Analysis #1: What most voters and Trump's white house aides have in common by Steve benen.1/27/2017 What most voters and Trump’s White House aides have in common, an article by Steve Benen, shows a lack of respect that Trump’s White House aides have with him. Benen starts by saying that Trump’s advisors say that he acts like a “petulant child”(Benen 2). His diction here evokes thoughts of an impatient crying child that does what he wants when he wants to. He is clearly biased with his word choice as he goes on to say, “they suggest Trump’s own team is a little too eager to dish to the press about their unprepared boss.” Words like “unprepared” in that statement, make you feel as though Benen already thought that Trump was unprepared to be president and that this information was simply reaffirming his beliefs (Benen 12-13).
The anti-Trump bias appears again with Benen's imagery, "Highlighted the Presidents limitless sense of grievance"(8). This gives you the picture that Trump is looking to be offended, or that he has one of the strongest self-esteem issues of any of the former Presidents. He also uses imagery to show that this type of behavior has happened before with Trump aides, "dished about the chaotic cage match at Trump HQ"(23). This sentence quite clearly brings about images of finely dressed people fighting in a UFC style environment. He does this to show that conflict exists between Trump and the people there to help him. Benen's political leanings also emerge in his tone as he develops the article. Throughout it he talks in a tone that sounds matter of factually that Trump would act like this, "At a certain level, this doesn’t come as too big of a surprise"(22). Benen sounds as though he was expecting this to be the deal with Trump's regime. The italicization of too in that sentence also builds on the frankness, because it emphasizes that it wasn't a surprise. The purpose of this article was to place a sense of disbelief, but also a sense of anger into the readers. Benen wants the readers to be shocked that the person that is supposed to lead them is unable to hold his attention on anything that is important for a length of time. Because of this disbelief the reader will become incited at the notion that someone with a job that is as important as the presidency, prefers to watch tv than care about the needs of themselves or their families.
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