Trump's strategic maneuvering in coronavirus press conferences

Abstract

Coronavirus Pandemic attracts the attention of most, if not all researchers, each from his perspective. Trump's press conferences about coronavirus are fertile land to study strategic maneuvering. This study, therefore, aims at identifying the pragmatic structure of Trump's strategic maneuvering in a coronavirus press conference. In accordance with its aim, the study hypothesizes that strategic maneuvering in Trump's coronavirus press conference is pragmatically constructed by three stages, namely: the unveiling, the maneuvering, and the terminating stages, and each stage of its pragmatic structure has certain tactics and strategies. For the sake of achieving its aim and testing the validity of its hypothesis, this study follows certain steps. It mainly reviews the relevant literature about strategic maneuvering, analyzes six situations from the press conference at hand via a model developed by the study for this purpose. The analysis conducted by this study has led to a variety of conclusions, the most central of which is that Trump's strategic maundering is pragmatically rooted in terms of stages, tactics, and strategies. Additionally, the analysis proves the workability and instrumentality of the pragmatic model developed by the study to examine strategic maneuvering in Trump's coronavirus press conferences from a pragmatic point of view.