Title: The Trump Primary Corpus (TPC2016): A Multimodal Archive of Populist Discourse

Creator: Pablo Artero (compiler and editor)

Overview:
The Trump Primary Corpus (TPC2016) is a curated multimodal archive of all Donald J. Trump's campaign rallies from the 2016 Republican primary season. The corpus includes structured metadata, video references, partial/full transcripts, and observational notes. It is intended as a resource for researchers in discourse analysis, prosody, populism, political communication, and applied linguistics.

Contents:
- 222 political events from June 2015 to June 2016
- Metadata for each event: date, location, video source, word count, transcription status
- Direct video/audio links
- A selection of verbatim transcriptions with prosodic and thematic notations

Use Cases:
- Analysis of populist discourse and political charisma
- Prosodic analysis of live political performance
- Training datasets for speech recognition or voice modeling
- Political communication pedagogy

Citation:
Artero, P. (2025). The Trump Primary Corpus (TPC2016): A Multimodal Archive of Populist Discourse [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15399539

License:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

EDITORIAL NOTE:
Sample transcripts preserve the spontaneity and structure of live political speech. Some minor inconsistencies or deviations from standard spelling/punctuation are retained to reflect performance-based discourse and are not errors per se.

The TPC2016 corpus comprises 222 events, including all known Donald Trump campaign rallies from June 2015 to June 2016, as well as several additional live appearances that, while not always officially listed as “rallies,” follow the same rhetorical and performative structure. This expanded inclusion ensures a broader empirical base for political discourse research.
