As you know, a picture can say more than a thousand words. A clenched fist, a bloody face, security guards overpowering a rampaging Trump. And “stars and stripes” waving in the background. Many have drawn parallels to the iconic image of US Marines raising the American flag after the Battle of Iwo Jima at the end of the Pacific War in 1945. EVOQUES ASSOCIATIONS: US Marines raise the flag on Mount Suribachi on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima on February 23, 1945. Photo : Joe Rosenthal / AP – I think we can call this “assassination marketing”, says rhetoric expert Kjell Terje Ringdal at Kristiania University College, about Trump’s immediate response to the shooting attack. – This is a Trump who in a tenth of a second understands the value of what is happening. Donald Trump was escorted off stage at a campaign event in Pennsylvania on Saturday. The contrast with a fumbling, aged Biden is striking, and could be decisive in the upcoming election campaign, Ringdal believes. – If I were part of Biden’s campaign now, I would think: “We seriously lost there”, says Ringdal. Kjell Terje Ringdal is senior lecturer at Høyskolen Kristiania in Oslo, where he teaches rhetoric, social influence and public relations. Photo: Heiko Junge / NTB – This confirms Trump’s basic narrative about all the official forces who wish him ill. The smoldering fire of skepticism, mistrust and division that has been simmering in American society has now fully ignited. SHOWED SUPPORT: “Trump or death,” reads the flag, which a crowd of Trump supporters waved outside Trump Tower on Sunday. Photo: KENA BETANCUR / AFP Donald Trump’s statesmanlike and more aggressive actions after the attack leave little doubt that he intends to continue as before. Just hours after he was shot, a statement came from the former president’s campaign staff saying he was looking forward to the Republican National Convention on Monday. Photo: Brendan McDermid / Reuters On Sunday afternoon, Trump calls for a gathering, – It is more important than ever that we stand together, show our true face as Americans and not let evil win, he writes in a new post on Truth Social. See the full post here: Photo: Facsimile / Truth Social USA expert Sofie Høgestøl says that the next few days will show how Trump responds to the attack politically. She is excited about his national assembly speech. – The question is whether he will use the speech to be more conciliatory, as he has been on social media for the past 24 hours, or whether he will use a more well-known Trump rhetoric that is more divisive, she says. In all cases, the event will build on Trump’s message as someone who takes the fight against the establishment, according to Høgestøl. – He looks like a political messiah figure. Those pictures from yesterday become iconic and an example of that. Sofie Høgestøl is an associate professor at the University of Oslo and follows American politics closely. Photo: Johanna Hauge / news Rhetoric professor Jens E. Kjeldsen at UiB believes that in the future we will see a Trump who acts both statesmanlike and aggressive. – He can show that he took it completely calmly in the situation and asked people to stand together. But there will also be an opportunity to attack opponents. Jens E. Kjeldsen is professor of rhetoric and visual communication at the University of Bergen. Photo: Tove K. Breistein / news Trump’s technique is reminiscent of that of the tobacco industry, Kjeldsen believes, which is about creating doubt rather than trying to convince people. – He can say things like “they want to hurt us”, without it being entirely clear who he is referring to. Then the audience can put in the one or the other that they themselves don’t like. Asking the parties to “turn down the rhetoric” The responses from the political environment in the USA were almost in unison after the attack: Call Trump, and distance yourself from political violence. President Biden prayed for Trump and his family, and condemned the attack. So did former President Barack Obama, George Bush and Democrat Nancy Pelosi. Melania Trump urges to look beyond the political left-right divide, while Speaker Mike Johnson asked both parties in the United States to “turn down the rhetoric” BLAMES BIDEN: Ohio Senator James David Vance. Photo: Marco Bello / Reuters But one of the possible candidates for the role of Trump’s vice president, James David Vance, cracked the unity, and placed responsibility for the attack on Biden. – The central premise of Biden’s campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs. That rhetoric led directly to the assassination attempt on President Trump, Ohio Senator Vance writes on X. ASKING FOR MATURITY: Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide. Photo: Amanda Iversen Orlich / n649101 Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide says in news’s news broadcast that the attack is a very serious turn in American politics. – I hope all parties show that the situation is mature, and take care not to use this politically, but on the contrary gather around that political violence, you shouldn’t have that anyway, says Eide. – I hope the two major parties stand together to reject this and not try to use it either one way or the other in the political game. Published 14.07.2024, at 22.43 Updated 14.07.2024, at 11 p.m
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