Eeshah Gull2025-11-222025-11-222023https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/11750This research puts light on a comparative study, where two genders come across in one domain of politics. In 2016 Hillary Clinton was nominated as the first female candidate to represent her party. Donald Trump as being a Republican Party nominee put accusations over Hillary that she was using “women’s card” and playing safe and giving politically correct answers to portray herself as a victim and being there for the victims. By using a quantitative approach, this paper will use the Aristotle’s three appeals and analyze that was she actually being victimized and being accused of using women card, or was is caught guilty of manipulating her audience. This study will prove the role of power, dominance and gender hierarchy by using gender and dominance models given by linguists. This research will analyze Donald Trump’s speech as her competitive in politics and analyzing that is manipulation only done by female in politics or either males too use this tool and are never accounted for. Moreover, the research will examine the persuasive strategies present in Donald Trump’s speech (acceptance speech), as that speech shows the persuasive strategies to unveil the identity of Donald Trump as a persuasive speaker. With the help of micro-analysis in this study the Searle’s speech acts are used to find out the intended speaker’s meaning. What assertives, commissives, directives, expressives and declarations are used in his speech? So as a conclusion to this research clearly shows Trump’s strategy to demonstrate the use of plural pronouns to his audience feel more attached with him and in return it will raise the emotions of the audience like solidarity and care among the speaker and audience, in order to achieve his purpose 7 | Page of manipulating the audience that he could get re-elected again against his opponent Joe Biden, as its not only the women who are using persuasive language in politics and the patriarchal society only blames a women for being manipulative and using a persuasive language.enThesis