Abstract

CARDONA ACUNA, Luz Ángela  and  ARTEAGA BOTELLO, Nelson. King’s Three Bodies. Trump and Peña in “Los Pinos”. Revista Col. San Luis [online]. 2022, vol.12, n.23, 00007.  Epub May 27, 2024. ISSN 2007-8846.  https://doi.org/10.21696/rcsl122320221391.

This study analyzes the significance competence of Donald Trump’s visit to Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto in 2016 as a performance. It includes the textual analysis and iterative coding process of how this performance was interpreted in 60 opinion pieces in Mexican media outlets. One of the discourses suggested that Trump’s visit had tarnished the image of the Mexican president in general, whereas others suggested that it had only tarnished Peña Nieto’s personal image. While this study only analyzes the impact of the Trump/Peña meeting in Mexican op-eds, further research should include its representation in US media. It does interpret, however, whether or not the presidential figure is legitimized as a representation of the whole nation, as its political and civil authority. The aforementioned political event detonated a dispute regarding the effects of the performance in the three bodies of the presidential endowment embodied in Peña Nieto.

Keywords : performance; Cultural Sociology; Mexico; United States.