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https://theconversation.com/trump-a...sing-thing-in-common-the-words-they-use-81309
Anyone remember all the conservatives criticising Obama for using the word "I" a lot?
[h=2]Obama and Trump vs. everyone else[/h] On two key dimensions, Obama and Trump look similar – and stand in marked contrast to all other presidents.
First, their rhetoric is much more self-referential, meaning it uses more first-person pronouns. Obama’s rhetoric is 69 percent more self-referential than the presidential average, and Trump exceeds Obama by another 20 percent.
Trump employs almost 50 percent more first-person pronouns than the second most heavily self-referential president after Obama, Gerald Ford. Trump’s rhetoric is twice as self-referential as the postwar presidential average.
Anyone remember all the conservatives criticising Obama for using the word "I" a lot?