Politics in the English Language; Trump's Demonstration

The forty-fifth president of our nation, Donald Trump is, quite frankly, a ruthless abuser of the English Language.  If George Orwell were to be alive to witness Donald Trump's nonsensical diction, Trump would stand to be a victim of Orwell's blatant criticism.  An exemplification of Trump's misuse of language is when he rhetorically inquired, "Are we living in Nazi Germany?"  He made this insensitive statement after reported allegations of him surfaced.  On a multiplicity of levels, there are various things wrong with this sentence.  Making this statement devalues the severity of the Holocaust and the horrible experiences the Jewish people had to endure during the Nazi regime.  He is using the Holocaust analogically in order to attempt to prove a point, and by doing so, he is severely dramatizing his own situation while simultaneously trivializing what the Jewish people went through.  Through this statement, he is exhibiting a great amount of laziness and an overall lack of education.  His wrongly-used metaphor is a product of him not having a substantial amount of creativity or critical thinking skills.  This is exactly what George Orwell eludes to in his article, "Politics in the English Language": the degradation of our language has many more implications than just a lack of concise articulation.  In this work, he also stated, "But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought."  Donald Trump's statement comparing his allegations to the conditions of Nazi Germany has the capability of corrupting the American minds into believing that Donald Trump's situation, specifically in reference to his allegations, is of equal severity, comparatively, to Nazi Germany.  Thus, subconsciously, the American people are now left with the impression that Nazi Germany was not as awful as textbooks have made it out to be, and also,  that being accused of crimes is just as bad as being Jewish in Nazi Germany. Overall, Donald Trump's consistent lack of eloquence devalues the meaning of words.

Analysis: Trump is a master of language

My Relationship With Media

The manipulation of media is ridiculously prevalent in my daily life.  However, as per usual, I succumb to it. I let myself and my perceptions be twisted and distorted.  My laziness and lack of effort to filter the messages of the media is overwhelming. Why do I let myself be lied to?  Why do I let myself be exploited? Why do I give in? Maybe the answer lies in the deceptive appeal of the advertisements, of the news, of the internet, etc.  For example, the advertisement embedded below, for the iPhone 6, says, "Because you deserve nothing less than the best."  A few years ago, when this phone had just been released by Apple, these types of advertisements were infesting my television, invading my mind.  I had just been given my mom's old iPhone 4, that was significantly incompetent, so naturally I wanted something that "I deserved". That Christmas I opened up the perfectly rectangular box that contained "what I deserved"--an iPhone 6.  My parents spent hundreds of dollars because they, too, were positively enraptured by the enticement of Apple's advertisements. These ads purposely target the audience, making them feel as if they are being understood by the company. As absurd as it sounds, I felt that Apple somewhat understood that I did not deserve a crappy phone that was given to me.  Of course, that is false, in so many ways: Apple doesn't understand me, they understand what I want, and I should’ve been much more appreciative of being given a phone, no matter how slow or glitchy it is. What is to be said here is that my relationship with media is contrived of a power complex. The more superior factor, of course, is the creators of the media; the companies, newspapers, internet, etc. I am the less superior, sometimes by choice, sometimes not.