Understanding by comparing: Biden and Trump’s inaugural speeches --- I had the curiosity to compare, from the language perspective, the inaugural speech of the last two presidents. One issue strikes me: retrospectively, the statement of Donald Trump reflects to a considerable extent the personality of Donald Trump. It is not like the speech-writer abused his privilege.

I propose that we all remember the speech of Joe Biden, which we have so diligently dissected, and see in 4 years’ time to what extent his speech reflected his real personality.

After all, they are politicians and their speeches cannot miss the leit-motives of God, Constitution, American dream, American destiny in the world, wars and heroes.

Anyway, the object of my curiosity was the framing tools used by the two Presidents. You may continue the exercise. The material is rich.

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Source author: Petru Dumitriu PetruD@diplomacy.edu