Get ready for another Donald Trump themed post, but first let’s back it up a little…
In my writing class we focused a lot on understanding audience. We looked at audience of other pieces of literature, as well as audience of our own work. It is important as a writer to understand your audience. It is important to make critical moves that are specifically effective to the specific people you are writing to. As a reader it is important to understand who the author is speaking to.
In basic terms, a children’s book is most effective to a child, just how a scholarly article is most effective to a scholar.
Now back to Donald Trump…
I am not the only person who has realized that Donald Trump’s Tweets don’t seem to add up… quite frankly, a lot of them don’t make any sense at all. One reason for this is because I may not be his audience. However I think that, primarily, Donald Trump is not understanding his audience. His older tweets don’t have the proper tone or nuance of a presidential candidate, and his tweets now, don’t reach the American people in an effective way. I think his tweets are really tailored for himself, so he can go back and read what he wrote with a smile.
I am not trying to support Donald Trump by what I am about to say, as he could really benefit from a more direct tone and a few more sessions of peer-review, but if he altered how he says what he wants to say, he might receive less hate from the media and reach a large group of the American people. Instead, by talking only to himself and to people who already support him, his ideas aren’t reaching anyone new. If he truly has some good ideas lost somewhere in his twitter feed, he should really think about about the small stuff and how he wants to say his ideas. 