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The purpose of this study is to evaluate the statement of the U.S. President Donald Trump upon the death of the Terrorist Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in 2019 and the statement of the former President Barack Obama upon the death of the Terrorist Leader Osama bin Laden in 2011, by comparing these two statements on the axis of the phenomenon of spectacle, with a semiotic and intertextual analysis method. So far, many studies have shown that the contents of the U.S. Media, regardless of their types, could turn into the entertainment format. In this razzle-dazzle, media actors apply to the phenomenon of spectacle in order to attract attention and sometimes to draw attention to another direction. While the presidents before Trump used to express the facts such as democracy, peace and anti-terrorism as the reason for their presence in Iraq and Afghanistan; Trump, unlike the other presidents, expresses clearly that they are there for oil, they have to earn material income from the Middle East, to the extent to which they have invested there. In this regard, how Trump uses the show in the media as a former reality show presentator and how he builds the meaning he wants to create was examined in this study.

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