Exceptional Me by Jason Gilmore, Charles Rowling - 9780755626953

Exceptional MeHow Donald Trump Exploited the Discourse of American Exceptionalism\nAuthor(s): Jason Gilmore, Charles Rowling\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: I.B. Tauris\nISBN-13: 9780755626953, 978-0755626953\nSynopsis\nDonald 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 different from every president in modern American history. \n\nBeginning with the 2016 election, the authors show how Trump broke with tradition and instead of championing American exceptional.