This study contrasts Obama’s and Trump’s solutions to the same immigration issue, with the focus on how metaphors and metaphorical stories they use can cause such a divergence of the issue between them. The analysis is based on two of their speeches: Obama’s remarks by the president in address to the nation on immigration（November 20, 2014）, and Trump’s full immigration speech（August 31, 2016）. We argue that Obama mainly draws on the conceptual metaphor of UNIFACATION, describing immigrants as team/family members, etc., while Trump main...
