The article is devoted to “violent rhetoric” as a type of oratory practice used in the genre of political debates and is based on the material from the 2024 U. S. electoral campaign. The data were collected from speeches of American politicians, their statements in the media and on Twitter, as well as from Russian and foreign publications and TV news broadcasts from January 2023 to August 2024. The research methods include rhetorical analysis, critical discourse analysis, semiotic and contextual analyses.