Audience

In this section, we will talk about the audience of Donald Trump's victory speech, including the wider audience who watched through various kinds of media.  

The speech was made in the New York Hilton Hotel, to a group of Trump’s supporters. In the televised version of the speech, cheers and applause can continually be heard, making…

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Trump's target audience

The politically divided nation makes the speech challenging for Trump, because his target audience is all Americans. We see his attempts to reach out to his political opponents most clearly in the beginning of the speech:

Now it is time for America to bind the wounds of division, have to get together. To all Republicans and Democrats and independents across this nation, I say it is time for us to come together as one united people. [...] I pledge to every citizen of our land that I will be President for all of Americans... (ll. 9-11)

He also addresses his own supporters specifica…