Argentieri, FederigoJaffe, SethLanterna, Claudia2024-10-042024-10-042022Lanterna, Claudia. "Trump’s Inauguration Speech and the Events of January 6 2021: A study of populist policies and populist communication". BA Thesis, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. 2022.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14490/412Thesis (B.A. in Art History)--John Cabot University, Fall 2022.The 2016 presidential election saw the rise of populism in the United States of America. This work focuses on Trump’s inauguration speech on January 20, 2017, and the Capitol attack on January 6, 2021. My research compares the beginning of Trump presidency with the end of his mandate. It seeks to answer the questions of how these two events relate one to each other, through the analysis of his communication style and the policies he applied during his presidency. The first chapter analyzes the speech: words, pronouns and the sentence structure repetition. It is also analyzed his policies and how they make him a populist leader. The second chapter looks at the Capitol attack, showing the way his communication in the speech and on Tweets incite a violent riot. It shows how both the House and Congress state that January 6 was a deliberate attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election and block the transfer of presidential power. This topic is relevant to continue looking at because, even though Trump lost in 2020, he recently announced his candidacy for the 2024 elections. The results suggest that both his communication style used in the inauguration speech and the speech plus tweets used on January 6 and and policies make him a populist leader, putting in danger American democracy.43 pagesenAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Donald Trump, 1946-Politics and governmentPresidents electionThesis