Trump’s Discourse on Iran Nuclear Deal: A Critical Study

The current study, which was conducted in line with the conventions of Critical Discourse Analysis, attempts to bring forth the underlying concepts, concerning the social activities of the U. S. withdrawal from Iran nuclear deal in the discourse of the American president Donald Trump (2017). The study was centered on discussing how power is established and re-established in the discourse under investigation; in addition, Trump’s identity and ideology were also foci of the discussion of this study. The data sampling of this study was selected from “Trump’s speech on Iran Nuclear Deal” delivered on the 8th of May, 2018. To realize the objectives of the study to fruition, three theoretical insights were advocated: Fairclough’s (1989) “Relational