Using the methodology of conversation analysis and a modified analytical framework, this article attempts to characterize and investigate Trump’s practices to resist the agendas of the interviewers’ questions during the press briefings held by the Trump Administration in 2020. Statistical data show that Trump mainly used four types of overt resistant response practices in order of decreasing frequency: (1) Justifying the resistance; (2) Providing a partial answer; (3) Flatly refusing to answer without any explanation; and (4) Resorting to a personal attack, which is a new type of overt resistant practices. However, only one type of covert resistant response practice is identified, i.e. Repeating words subversively. The potential reasons for Trump’s use of such practices are discussed. In essence, Trump’s deliberate use of resistant response practices is a typical reflection of the right-wing populist politicians’ claim of “authenticity” rather than “truth” in the Post-Truth era.

中文翻译：

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“你这是假新闻”

本文试图运用对话分析法和修改后的分析框架，对特朗普政府在2020年举行的新闻发布会上抵制采访者提问议程的做法进行表征和调查。统计数据显示，特朗普主要使用了四种方式：公开抵制反应做法的类型（按照频率递减的顺序排列）：（1）证明抵制的合理性；(2) 提供部分答案；（三）不予答复、断然拒绝答复的；（四）人身攻击，是一种新型的公然抗拒行为。然而，只发现了一种类型的隐蔽抵抗反应实践，即颠覆性地重复单词。讨论了特朗普使用此类做法的潜在原因。从本质上讲，特朗普刻意采取的抵制做法是后真相时代右翼民粹主义政客主张“真实性”而非“真相”的典型体现。