Methods: I downloaded/scraped 1k+ transcripts (4M+ words) of presidential candidate campaign speeches and isolated the sections spoken by the relevant party. Each transcript was broken into 50-sentence chunks and sentiment analysis for each chunk was analyzed with [NLTK](https://github.com/nltk/nltk/wiki/Sentiment-Analysis).
I sampled 5 Trump rally quotations from passages with very negative sentiment scores, shown in slides 2-6.
P.S. If you’re a data scientist who’d like to do an analysis with this data yourself, let me know.
You should show Wallace in 72
Imagine thinking the highest wages in the world are crushed wages. Imagine believing it’s the net migration rate that has caused US’ inequality problem.
What an awful existence. I feel sorry for him in a way
Does “Malarkey” count as negative?
At first I was surprised by how positive Bush’s speech sentiment was, but I think maybe that’s what made him the guy you “want to have a beer with” even as his policies might be diametrically opposed to yours. He coded for hope while speaking about war. I might need to reconsider my attitude towards his speech writing. He came off a bit slow-witted, but maybe the folksy energy was a cunning decision.
Certainly interesting. Definitely not beautiful.
so there is absolutely 0 “negative” for harris, but some amount of very negative?
making everything translucent besides trump’s bars is annoying btw
and how the hell is there not more neutral language for everyone? are you telling me you can take a positive or negative connotation from nearly 80% of the words harris has spoken in any campaign related event?
It’s gotta be difficult coming in after Trump 2016 – 2020 and trying to hold this whole thing together.
It’s been well established that negative emotions are more engaging than positive ones. That’s why the media focuses so much on bad news and social media focuses so much are driving conflict. The real question isn’t why Trump is so negative; it’s why others aren’t following suit.
I find it funny that GW Bush is the most positive. Definitely would have thought that’d’ve been either Obama or Kennedy
It’s going to be a nightmare if this guy ends up President again, it’ll be no holds barred.
He told us the market would crash 4 years ago.
I think that’s a big part of why he’s successful, however shocking that may sound. He grabs attention with his statements, like saying people are eating cats or dogs. People appreciate that he “tells it like it is” and promises he’ll be the one to solve it.
I’d be interested in seeing a word cloud for his speeches
It is the height of both irony and tragedy that what he says is happening is instead what will happen under his reign.
I have a $50 bet that before next Tuesday Trump will say “blood for the blood god, skulls for the skull throne”.
> [“It could not find that he ‘raped’ her if it determined that Mr Trump forcibly penetrated Ms Carroll’s private sexual parts with his fingers – which commonly is considered ‘rape’ in other contexts – because the New York penal law definition of rape is limited to penile penetration.”](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/07/donald-trump-rape-language-e-jean-carroll)
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> [“As the court explained in its recent decision denying Mr Trump’s motion for a new trial on damages and other relief [in the New York case] … based on all of the evidence at trial and the jury’s verdict as a whole, the jury’s finding that Mr Trump ‘sexually abused’ Ms Carroll implicitly determined that he forcibly penetrated her digitally – in other words, that Mr Trump in fact did ‘rape’ Ms Carroll as that term commonly is used and understood in contexts outside of the New York penal law.”](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/07/donald-trump-rape-language-e-jean-carroll)
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According to the U.S. Department of Justice, rape is:
I mean this makes sense this year. There are a lot of negative and very negative things to talk about, and if you’re the incumbent you want to avoid those topics as they happened under your administration. If you’re the challenger you want to point out the failures of the current administration.
It’s almost as if people are trying harder and harder to shut the other side up….and it’s not working out as well as they thought it would….again.
Reddit needs to get off Reddit…
What kinds of words get classified as “Very Positive” that only Leader Dearest used? I’m suspicious that no other speech has them, unless they’re the self-aggrandizing words, then I could see that, but then I’d question why they were “very positive”.
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… MASS HYSTERIA!
Wait a minute, you can’t flag Marxists and communists as negative–after all, one man’s communism is another man’s neighborliness.
Isn’t the Harris Campaign using words like Hitler, dangerous, evil in every speech of theirs?
It’s interesting Trump uses the most negative words but also the most positive ones.
When reality is dark, I’d prefer our leaders acknowledge reality.
But hey, if you think the edge of ww3, genocide in Israel, collapsing economies, immense national debt, inflation, and the nastiest civil discourse and racial tensions of my life should be hidden with gossamer language, you should definitely be enjoying yourself.
![[OC] “Plunder, rape, slaughter and destruction”: Trump’s language is historically dark and getting darker.](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/at6d5lu3p3yd1-1080x1024.png)
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Data sources: [UCSB American Presidency Project](https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/), [Rev Transcripts](https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/all-transcripts) (blog)
Tools: Python, NLTK, Pandas, Datawrapper
Methods: I downloaded/scraped 1k+ transcripts (4M+ words) of presidential candidate campaign speeches and isolated the sections spoken by the relevant party. Each transcript was broken into 50-sentence chunks and sentiment analysis for each chunk was analyzed with [NLTK](https://github.com/nltk/nltk/wiki/Sentiment-Analysis).
I sampled 5 Trump rally quotations from passages with very negative sentiment scores, shown in slides 2-6.
P.S. If you’re a data scientist who’d like to do an analysis with this data yourself, let me know.
You should show Wallace in 72
Imagine thinking the highest wages in the world are crushed wages. Imagine believing it’s the net migration rate that has caused US’ inequality problem.
What an awful existence. I feel sorry for him in a way
Does “Malarkey” count as negative?
At first I was surprised by how positive Bush’s speech sentiment was, but I think maybe that’s what made him the guy you “want to have a beer with” even as his policies might be diametrically opposed to yours. He coded for hope while speaking about war. I might need to reconsider my attitude towards his speech writing. He came off a bit slow-witted, but maybe the folksy energy was a cunning decision.
Certainly interesting. Definitely not beautiful.
so there is absolutely 0 “negative” for harris, but some amount of very negative?
making everything translucent besides trump’s bars is annoying btw
and how the hell is there not more neutral language for everyone? are you telling me you can take a positive or negative connotation from nearly 80% of the words harris has spoken in any campaign related event?
It’s gotta be difficult coming in after Trump 2016 – 2020 and trying to hold this whole thing together.
It’s been well established that negative emotions are more engaging than positive ones. That’s why the media focuses so much on bad news and social media focuses so much are driving conflict. The real question isn’t why Trump is so negative; it’s why others aren’t following suit.
I find it funny that GW Bush is the most positive. Definitely would have thought that’d’ve been either Obama or Kennedy
It’s going to be a nightmare if this guy ends up President again, it’ll be no holds barred.
He told us the market would crash 4 years ago.
I think that’s a big part of why he’s successful, however shocking that may sound. He grabs attention with his statements, like saying people are eating cats or dogs. People appreciate that he “tells it like it is” and promises he’ll be the one to solve it.
I’d be interested in seeing a word cloud for his speeches
It is the height of both irony and tragedy that what he says is happening is instead what will happen under his reign.
I have a $50 bet that before next Tuesday Trump will say “blood for the blood god, skulls for the skull throne”.
Not voting gets you ignored: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1468-2508.2005.00357.x
Voting is a civic duty. It’s not about falling in love with any of the candidates.
That said, only one of these candidates is a rapist.
> [Ex-president claimed that writer defamed him when saying he raped her, but judge said term is commonly ‘used and understood’ in context](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/07/donald-trump-rape-language-e-jean-carroll)
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> [Kaplan also set out in detail why it may be said that Trump raped Carroll.](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/07/donald-trump-rape-language-e-jean-carroll)
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> [“It could not find that he ‘raped’ her if it determined that Mr Trump forcibly penetrated Ms Carroll’s private sexual parts with his fingers – which commonly is considered ‘rape’ in other contexts – because the New York penal law definition of rape is limited to penile penetration.”](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/07/donald-trump-rape-language-e-jean-carroll)
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> [“As the court explained in its recent decision denying Mr Trump’s motion for a new trial on damages and other relief [in the New York case] … based on all of the evidence at trial and the jury’s verdict as a whole, the jury’s finding that Mr Trump ‘sexually abused’ Ms Carroll implicitly determined that he forcibly penetrated her digitally – in other words, that Mr Trump in fact did ‘rape’ Ms Carroll as that term commonly is used and understood in contexts outside of the New York penal law.”](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/07/donald-trump-rape-language-e-jean-carroll)
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According to the U.S. Department of Justice, rape is:
> [“The penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim.”](https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/blog/updated-definition-rape)
Rapists are the most selfish people on the planet. If you think he’s fighting for you, you’ve been had.
https://www.usa.gov/early-voting
r/stoprape
I mean this makes sense this year. There are a lot of negative and very negative things to talk about, and if you’re the incumbent you want to avoid those topics as they happened under your administration. If you’re the challenger you want to point out the failures of the current administration.
It’s almost as if people are trying harder and harder to shut the other side up….and it’s not working out as well as they thought it would….again.
Reddit needs to get off Reddit…
What kinds of words get classified as “Very Positive” that only Leader Dearest used? I’m suspicious that no other speech has them, unless they’re the self-aggrandizing words, then I could see that, but then I’d question why they were “very positive”.
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… MASS HYSTERIA!
Wait a minute, you can’t flag Marxists and communists as negative–after all, one man’s communism is another man’s neighborliness.
Isn’t the Harris Campaign using words like Hitler, dangerous, evil in every speech of theirs?
It’s interesting Trump uses the most negative words but also the most positive ones.
When reality is dark, I’d prefer our leaders acknowledge reality.
But hey, if you think the edge of ww3, genocide in Israel, collapsing economies, immense national debt, inflation, and the nastiest civil discourse and racial tensions of my life should be hidden with gossamer language, you should definitely be enjoying yourself.
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