Engagement Activity: Rhetorical Analysis of an Environmental Justice Meme

    This meme is targeted toward people who are part of the Democratic party.  Usually, people who are in the republican party, don't support things like same-sex marriages or abortion being legal.  Usually, the democratic party aren't so conservative.  So, the target audience is people a part of the democratic political party because it makes fun of traditional marriage.  This meme is ironic that Donald Trump supports traditional marriage, and then goes on to say that he's had three of them!  This is what makes the meme funny, is because it's making fun of how traditional marriages may not work out, but Donald Trump won't support untraditional marriage. 

    People of different political parties clash when it comes to morals.  People of the democratic party, they believe in modern, inclusive, and equal ways of doing things.  People of the republican party believe in traditional, more conservative ways of doing things.  This is when morals clash because of the different beliefs in the ways these things should be done.  

    The creator's purpose of this meme is to poke fun at traditional marriage by using Donald Trump's marriage history as an example.  What people decide to marry is their choice based on their best judgment.  There should be no restrictions on untraditional marriages.  So, any marriage, traditional or not, isn't better than the other based on that fact.  However, some people who don't believe in untraditional marriage discriminate against those a part of one.  This meme's purpose is to make people who don't support untraditional marriage see that no traditional marriage is any better than an untraditional one.  

    This meme might cause conflict because it makes fun of a political leader.  People who support Donald Trump might find this meme upsetting and it could start online wars.  However, people who think it's funny might share it with their friends.  Often conflicts between political memes happen when someone doesn't agree with it or thinks it's funny.  

This meme is a picture of Donald Trump making a kissy face, looking silly.  The text reads "I Believe In Traditional Marriage I've Had Three Of Them".  This meme depicts how silly one can look only supporting traditional marriage when theirs has failed themselves!  This image most likely emerged through Twitter, since that is the platform for many to make fun of Donald Trump (and his tweets) the most.