Social media platforms are widely used by numerous political officials to quickly disseminate information and/or obtain influence. Yet, little emphasis has been placed on analyzing how the dissemination of contentious messages is propagated using these e-platforms. The purpose of this study is to examine President Donald J. Trump's political rhetoric about immigration policies during the 2018–2019 government shutdown. In doing so, we qualitatively coded 1411 of Trump's tweets from October 1, 2018, to February 5, 2019, for the presence of fear-consistent appraisals and applied quantitative content analysis techniques to analyze the coded tweets. This study highlights the President's use of fear-inducing rhetoric to garner political support and negatively target vulnerable groups by questioning America's ability to cope with immigration. Moreover, the results highlight the responsibility of policymakers in discussing vulnerable populations.

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移民、越轨者和吸毒者：对特朗普总统在 2019 年政府关门期间因恐惧而发的推文的修辞分析

许多政治官员广泛使用社交媒体平台来快速传播信息和/或获得影响力。然而，很少有人强调分析如何使用这些电子平台传播有争议的信息。本研究的目的是研究唐纳德·J·特朗普总统在 2018-2019 年政府关门期间关于移民政策的政治言论。为此，我们对特朗普从 2018 年 10 月 1 日到 2019 年 2 月 5 日的 1411 条推文进行了定性编码，以确定是否存在恐惧一致性评估，并应用定量内容分析技术来分析编码的推文。这项研究强调了总统使用引发恐惧的言论来获得政治支持，并通过质疑美国应对移民的能力来消极针对弱势群体。此外，结果强调了政策制定者在讨论弱势群体方面的责任。