2. On Dec. 12, 2017, Donald Trump tweeted this: (see picture below) Tamara Keith summarized responses to the tweet (and Trump administration defences of it) in an NPR article, which centred on the question, “What exactly did th

The paper should include a theory of the relevant theories of meaning and reference and after introducing the theory, it should be applied to Trump’s question. Namely, Strawson’s idea of presupposition. Other theories that could be used are the ones from Russell as for theories of meaning. While for reference theories, it should be used Inferential Theory but the main focus should be put on Grice’s speaker meaning theory.