How Trump thinks : his tweets and the birth of a new political language / Peter Oborne and Tom Roberts
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TextPublication details: London Head of Zeus 2017Description: 281 pISBN: - 9781786696656
- 1786696657
- 9781786698018
- 1786698013
- 1786697076
- 9781786697073
- 973.9330 OBO-P
- E913 .O26 2017
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The most unusual feature of Donald Trump's nationalist and populist campaign for the presidency of the USA was his obsessive use of Twitter. Like other social media, this form of communication has often been assumed to encourage the dissemination of liberal values and the circulation of facts. Trump's tweets, by contrast, formed a constant stream of provocations, insults, conspiracy theories, 'alternative facts' and outright lies. And they helped him win power.
Peter Oborne, author of The Rise of Political Lying and Not The Chilcot Report, analyses Trump's incendiary mendacity in all its bewildering guises and shows how this fusion of entertainment and cunningly-crafted propaganda has destabilised the world's most powerful democracy.
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