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  • If we compare Trump to a phishing email, they are remarkably close.

    Use of language: Phishing emails usually incorporate misspellings and bad grammar, this is done to prevent people who are too detail oriented from wasting the scammer’s time, if they sort themselves out the scammer can focus on the gullible people who will believe them later in the process. Trump uses child like grammar in the same way, it turns away educated people from his fans, reducing the risk that they will start convincing followers that Trump is bad, which increase the echo chamber effect.

    Use of hyperbole: Phishing emails will push hard for fast action, telling you that doing X is extremely important, and needs to be done now. Same with Trump, there is always a big crisis, putting you on edge, stressing you out, this further reduce his follower’s ability to use critical thinking, so they will have an easier time to mindlessly support whatever action they are told will solve the crisis.

    There are way more similarities, but I am on mobile, and starting to cramp, so I end this comment here.

    TL;DR: Trump is a scam email.