This is the hyperbolic line that Trump cannot stop using. And here

Washington (AP)-as President Donald Trump says, things are never seen before are happening with surprising regularity.

The United States is going to build a new antimile defense system “as nobody has seen before.”

Its aggressive use of the military in Washington has reduced crime to “numbers that we have not seen here.”

And when it comes to economic growth under his leadership, “we’ve never seen anything like that.”

It is the favorite form of hyperbole of the president, whether he is talking about something he likes or does not like.

Nothing is improving a little better or a little worse: it is always so good or so bad that it has never been recorded in the annals of human history.

The phrase, which Trump is using with a growing frequency, is not just a rhetorical firm. It is also a reflection of how Trump sees the world and approaches the presidency. Almost everything is black and white, with himself as the hero and his political opponents such as villains. Their successes are legendary in their eyes, and the country’s problems are urgent crisis that require consolidating power and takes drastic measures.

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“The way speaks translates into the way it governs,” said Brian Ott, a professor of communication at the State University of Missouri that focuses on political rhetoric. “For extreme responses, everything demands an extreme context.”

Liz Huston, a White House spokeswoman, said “repetition is the key to any good message and President Trump is the best communicator in the history of American politics.”

Trump’s grandiosity is growing along with his power

It is not a hyperbole to say that Trump is displaying his characteristic phrase at the levels has never been seen in his political career. And he is doing it at a time when he is less restricted, by Congress, the Supreme Court, the members of his own administration and his own hesitation, which in his first mandate.

Trump has used some version of the phrase 194 times this year, according to Roll Call Factba.se, a database of presidential comments. (And that does not count on Thursday, when Trump said that “there has never been anything like” technological advances during his mandate, or on Friday, when he boasted of economic investments saying “no one has seen numbers like this”).

The total does not reach the use of the phrase by Trump during his last two campaigns, when the great statements were typical of their political manifestations, but far exceeds any previous year that was in office.

Only 90 examples were recorded in 2019, 77 in 2018 and 48 in 2017.

Factba. Artificial intelligence and other methods to identify phrase versions in the recordings of Trump’s public comments were used. Bill Frischling, who supervises the database, said Trump’s phrase seems to be a kind of verbal ICT, since he rarely appears in publications on social networks over the years.

The phrase is not included in the text of the speeches prepared since Trump assumed the position in January. (The White House has launched almost two dozen of this term).

Trump’s hyperbole is not always backed with facts

Trump’s loose relationship with the facts is well documented, all the way back to his best -selling book “The Art of the Agreement” in 1987.

“People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular,” said the book. “I call it sincere hyperbole. It is an innocent way of exaggeration, and it is a very effective form of promotion.”

Tony Schwartz, Trump’s ghost writer, has said he coined the phrase “sincere hyperbole”, but the future president loved.

The routine was completely exhibited last year when Trump spoke at the Republican National Convention.

He promised to “bring to the United States to new heights of greatness as the world had never seen before”, and said that the national debt will be reduced “with numbers that no one has seen.”

Then he unleashed his anger towards the Democrats.

Ascending inflation? “They have never seen anything like that.” Illegal immigration? “No one has seen something like that.”

Now the phrase is a fixed element of Trump’s events, including his recent meeting with the new Polish president. Sometimes your statements are precise, other times not.

Regarding the war between Russia and Ukraine, Trump said that “they are losing soldiers at levels that no one has seen since World War II.” (In fact, it is the most deadly conflict in that period of time).

He said: “They have a crime that is at levels that no one has seen before Baltimore”, a pretext for a possible deployment of the National Guard on local objections. (The city has historically fought with crime, but violence has decreased in recent years).

And Trump said his fiscal legislation would help the middle class and it is the “first time they have seen something like that.” (Rich people will obtain the greatest benefits, according to the non -partisan Congress Budget office).

The phrase is spreading through the administration

Trump’s main advisors simulate their language, as several did during the three -hour cabinet meeting last week.

Steve Witkoff, a diplomatic envoy, told the president that people around the world “have never seen the world change in this way” due to their peace negotiations.

The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, praised Trump’s work to control migration, saying that they are “receiving cooperation from countries that we had never seen before.”

Sometimes Trump even likes to put the phrase in other people’s mouth.

In an interview of August 15 with Sean Hannity of News, Trump said that Russian President Vladimir Putin had been impressed with his leadership.

“Vladimir said a while ago, he said: ‘I’ve never seen anyone make so fast,” Trump said.