Donald Trump has forged a unique relationship with American exceptionalism, parting ways
with how American politicians have long communicated this idea to the American public.
Through systematic comparative analyses, this book details the various ways that Trump
strategically altered and exploited the discourse of American exceptionalism to elevate not
the nation, but himself personally, professionally, and politically. Jason Gilmore and Charles
Rowling call this Trump's Exceptional Me Strategy and they document how it made Trump …

There is no doubt that Donald Trump is an" exceptional" individual and was an" exceptional"
president." Exceptional," that is, in the sense that he is certainly" unusual" and" atypical." Of
course, it is precisely because he is" exceptional" that Trump just will not disappear after two
impeachment trials and a lost election; it is his exceptionalism that continues to attract the
attention of legions of scholars across an array of disciplines. Already, scholars of political
communication have catalogued Trump's demagogic argumentation and traced the contours …