The transcripts of these speeches were scrutinized, with special attention to the topics of immigration and economy. ![]() In particular, I want to shed light on the following questions: (1) how are immigrants and economic issues represented in Donald Trump´s discourse before and after being elected president? (2) What participants and events are mystified? (3) What metaphors are used so as to represent these topics? Data for this research were gathered from four speeches and four interviews delivered by Donald Trump in the eighties-nineties and four speeches and four interviews after being the president of the United States. ![]() Along this line, this paper aims to analyse the discourse of Donald Trump on immigration and economy at two different periods of time: as a businessman in the 80s and 90s, and as the current president of the US. Over the last decades, the way in which strategies of self/other representation and mystification are combined with conceptual metaphors in the construction of ideological discourse has been an interesting area of research for critical discourse analysis (see Charteris-Black, 2006 Hart, 2014 O’Halloran, 2003 Santa-Ana, 2002).
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