‘Never seen anything like it’ — what Trump’s favorite phrase says about his presidency

Washington (AP) – As President Donald Trump He says this, things that have never been seen before do not happen with a striking regularity.

The United States will establish a new missile defense system, “No one has seen before”.

The aggressive use of the army in Washington reduced the crime to the “numbers we haven’t seen here”.

And when it comes to economic growth under its leadership, “We have never seen anything like this.”

President’s favorite exaggerationWhether he’s talking about something he loves or doesn’t. Nothing gets a little better or a little worse – it is always very good or so worse that it has not been recorded in the annuals of human history before.

The expression that Donald Trump uses with increased frequency is not only a rhetorical signature. It is also a reflection of how Trump sees the world and approaching the presidency. Almost everything is black and white, as hero heroes and political rivals as bad guys. Their achievements are legendary in their eyes and the problems of the country, urgent crises that require strengthening power and Take a hard action.

Brian Ott, a professor of communication focusing on political discourse at Missouri State University, said, “The way of speaking turns into a way of management,” he said. “For extreme answers, everything requires an excessive context.”

“Repetition is the key to any good messaging, and President Trump is the greatest communication in the history of American politics”.

Growing with Trump’s splendor

It is not an exaggeration to say that Trump has deployed his trademark expression at the unseen levels in his political career. And the Congress, the Supreme Court, the members of its administration and its own hesitation – do it at a time when it was less restricted than the first period.

According to Roll Call Factba.se, a database of the presidency, Trump used some versions of the statement 194 times this year. (And this Thursday, Trump’s technological developments during the period or Friday, “such a thing happened,” he said, “No one has seen such numbers such,” he boasts about economic investments.)

The total, during the last two campaigns of Trump, declines to shorten the use of magnificent expressions during the last two campaigns in which political rallies were typical, but every year he was in office in the previous year.

Only 90 examples in 2019, 77 in 2018 and 48 examples in 2017 were recorded.

Factba.se used artificial intelligence and other methods to describe the versions of the statements in Trump’s public comments. Bill Frischling, who controls the database, said Trump’s statements look like a verbal tic, because it rarely emerged in social media broadcasts for years.

It is not included in the text of the speeches prepared since Trump took office in January. (The White House published about two dozen this period.)

Trump’s exaggeration is not always supported by facts

Trump’s loose relationship with the facts returns to the best -selling book “The Art of Agreement” in 1987.

“People want to believe that something is the biggest, the biggest and the most spectacular,” he said. “I call it an exaggeration. This is an innocent form of exaggeration – and this is a very effective way of promotion.”

Tony Schwartz, Trump’s ghost writer Tony Schwartz, said he invented the phrase “Right exaggeration ,, but the future president loved him.

Routine was fully exhibited last year when he spoke at Trump’s National Convention.

He promised to take America to the height of the new size, as the world has never seen before, and said that the national debt would fall with the numbers that no one has seen ”.

Then he released his anger in the democrats.

Rising inflation? “They never saw such a thing.” Illegal migration? “No one has seen such a thing.”

(Inflation Higher beforeEspecially in the 1970s and in the early 1980s, but border crossings Setting the records President Joe Biden.)

Now the expression is an fixture of Trump’s events, including his latest meeting with the new Polish President. Sometimes their claims are true, sometimes not.

The war between Russia and Ukraine“They are losing soldiers at levels that no one has seen since the Second World War,” Trump said. (Indeed, the most deadly conflict in Europe at that time.)

“Baltimore has crimes that have never seen any before,” he said. Potential distribution of national guards Through local objections. (The city has historically fought crime, but violence has been decreasing in recent years.)

And Trump said that the tax legislation would help the middle class and that they had seen such a thing for the first time ”. (Rich people will take The biggest benefitsAccording to the non -Partisan Congress Budget Office.)

Expression is spreading from management

Trump’s best advisors, as last week at the three -hour cabinet meeting, are the language.

Steve Witkoff, a diplomatic ambassador, told the President that the people around the world have never seen that the world has changed in this way.

Foreign Minister Marco Rubio praised Trump’s work to control the migration and said that they have cooperated from countries we’ve never seen before ”.

Sometimes Trump likes to put the expression in the mouths of other people.

In an August 15 interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Trump claimed that he was impressed by the leadership of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“Vladimir recently said, ‘I have never seen anyone doing so fast’,” Vladimir said.