He puts his name on everything he touches. In giant gold letters. He personally oversaw and starred in multiple commercials for his own products. He made a TV show where he instructed people to do business like him, which included substantial segments on marketing and advertisement. You’re being deliberately ignorant.
I never watched The Apprentice, so I wouldn't know. But, you know it's just a show, right?
The first result I saw on Youtube has Trump giving a task to the contestants to design a new toy for Mattel. You think that Trump is an expert toy-maker? You think he's leaning on years of toy experience in order to judge the winner or loser? Of course not. If he didn't have an expert there, then that means who he "fires" from the show is up to his subjective whims and mood, not necessarily his educated conclusions.
I'm pointing out that you are employing all sorts of arguments that you effectively deny elsewhere. So you've said a headline influences how people perceive the article. That's fine, I don't disagree it can do that. Then you suddenly want to argue that the use of violent imagery in a speech doesn't count for anything as long as somewhere else the speaker says "But don't commit violence, mmmkay?" This is plainly inconsistent.
I don't see how that's inconsistent.
Let's make a hypothetical sentence that I used before: "Off-duty cop fingers boy",
Let's pretend that this sentence is the headline, where the body of the article makes it clear that this means that the cop identified the boy as a suspect.
Let's also pretend that we're reading this sentence in the body of another article, where the context is fully explained.
Which is going to make a stronger impression on you? When you see those words as the headline, or when you're reading those words in the context of a paragraph (or a speech)?
Manipulating people does not take genius or particularly deep, subtle skills. Most of us can do it to some degree, and most of us also sometimes screw up and induce the wrong emotional responses through carelessness because we have not properly considered how someone would take what we said. It's that easy.
Yes, but some people get paid to do it.
