How Trump Thinks - His Tweets and the Birth of a New Political Language

About the author

Peter Oborne is a columnist for the Daily Mail and former chief political commentator of the Daily Telegraph. One of Britain's most distinguished and independent political writers, his books include The Triumph of the Political Class and Wounded Tiger.

Summary

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.

Foreword

The most significant, demented, politically effective tweets from the world's most important Twitter feed, analysed and explained by the UK's leading expert on political lying.

Additional text

[A] hilarious yet frightening book

Product details

• Authors: Peter Oborne
• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9781786697073
• ISBN: 978-1-78669-707-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Social sciences, law, business > Political science; USA, HISTORY / United States / 21st Century, Social & cultural history, Non Fiction, Political leaders and leadership