Abstract:This study examines Trump’s depiction of Hispanic and Latinx immigrants, highlighting his use of moral panic to
activate fear and thereby deepen societal divisions within a broader right-wing populist agenda. Analyzing nearly half a million
words from Trump’s tweets using corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis, the research reveals that he portrays Hispanic and
Latinx immigrants as the ‘object of offence,’ amplifying their perceived threat while ‘scapegoating’ political adversaries and
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