LEADER 04090nam 22006375 450 001 9910741152403321 005 20230810171145.0 010 $a3-030-50551-0 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-50551-6 035 $a(CKB)4100000011354730 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6273754 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-50551-6 035 $a(PPN)25946189X 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011354730 100 $a20200721d2020 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDonald Trump and the Kayfabe Presidency $eProfessional Wrestling Rhetoric in the White House /$fby Shannon Bow O'Brien 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Pivot,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (120 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aRhetoric, Politics and Society,$x2947-5155 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a3-030-50550-2 327 $aChapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Manufacturing Realities: Truth is What You Can Get Away With -- Chapter 3. Wrestling with the Presidency: How Donald Trump Uses Wrestling and Theatrical Tactics in the Public Sphere -- Chapter 4. Going Re?public?an: How Donald Trump Uses Speeches to Target Audiences and Mask Reality -- Chapter 5. Why Does Any of This Matter?: What Can We Learn from These Strategies?. 330 $aThis book examines Donald Trump's longstanding connections to professional wrestling in relation to how he uses and exploits language, and the ways in which he has weaponized going public never before seen in previous administrations. Trump utilizes the language of wrestling to make rhetorical appeals and draws upon its theatrical tactics to redefine expectations of spaces to fundamentally change the nature of political expectations and expression. Wrestling is almost always about stories within a confined space, and Donald Trump inculcated many of its techniques to command an audience with rhetoric. The emotional performance supersedes truth or accuracy; factual exactness matters less than your presentation of the material. As Donald Trump blends performance and public service, social confusion over boundaries has occurred. Theatrical norms, when applied to daily life, generate vastly different reactions than within the artificial confines of an arena. It is not simply a muddling of public and private, but rather a jumbling of theatrical and generalized social standards. This book examines these aspects and explores how Donald Trump has also utilized well-established presidential tools in completely new ways in an attempt to build the strongest executive branch in American history. Shannon Bow O?Brien is an Assistant Professor of Instruction at the University of Texas at Austin. She specializes in American politics with a focus upon executive politics and presidential rhetoric. Her previous book, Why Presidential Speech Locations Matter: Analyzing Speechmaking from Truman to Obama, was published in 2018. 410 0$aRhetoric, Politics and Society,$x2947-5155 606 $aAmerica$xPolitics and government 606 $aPolitical leadership 606 $aCommunication in politics 606 $aExecutive power 606 $aAmerican Politics 606 $aPolitical Leadership 606 $aPolitical Communication 606 $aExecutive Politics 615 0$aAmerica$xPolitics and government. 615 0$aPolitical leadership. 615 0$aCommunication in politics. 615 0$aExecutive power. 615 14$aAmerican Politics. 615 24$aPolitical Leadership. 615 24$aPolitical Communication. 615 24$aExecutive Politics. 676 $a808.042 676 $a973.933092 700 $aO'Brien$b Shannon Bow$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0891353 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910741152403321 996 $aDonald Trump and the Kayfabe Presidency$93554532 997 $aUNINA