Introduction / Michele Lockhart -- The campaign, the twittersphere, and the "new age" of rhetoric: truth versus reality. Francisco Seoane Pérez, Irene Asiaín Román, Javier Lorenzo Rodríguez: Seizing the populist rhetorical toolkit: a comparative analysis of Trump and Clinton's discourse on Twitter during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign -- Dawn F. Colley: Of Twit-storms and demagogues: Trump, illusory truths of patriotism, and the language of the twittersphere -- Lance Cummings: The dark alchemy of Donald Trump: re-inventing presidential rhetorics through Christian and "New Age" discourses -- Power and abuse abroad and at home: foreign policy via twitterverse, "bullshit", & "nut job". Anish Dave: President tweets on the Middle East, North Korea, and Russia: the constructive and the unconstructive -- Christopher Carter: The paradox of dissent: bullshit and the Twitter presidency -- Sarah Smith-Frigerio, J. Brian Houston: Crazy, Insane, nut job, wacko, basket case, and psycho: Donald Trump's tweets surrounding mental health issues and attacks on media personalities -- Erec Smith: Habitat for inhumanity: how trolls set the stage for @realDonaldTrump -- Fake news and madness: read, re-tweet, and teach all about it. Dorian Hunter Davis, Aram Sinnreich: Tweet the press: effects of Donald Trump's "fake news!" epithet on civics and popular culture -- Rod Carveth: Setting the "fake news" agenda: Trump's use of Twitter and the agenda-building effect -- Bryan A. Lutz: Digital sophistry: Trump, Twitter, and teaching about fake news -- Conclusion
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