В статье рассматривается феномен социально-стилевой девиации политического дискурса. The article studies the phenomenon of socio-stylistic deviation of the classical political discourse demon-strated in vulgarization and invectization of the normative communication language of socially responsible sections of the population on both national and international levels of interaction. The invective function aimed at offence, humiliation and ridicule of the opponent by the speaker in intrapartisan competition or in the opposition on the international level is realized in the deviant usus of political discourse via switching over to a profane language employing the methods of political trolling, pranking (practical jokes over the phone), obscene words, invective paralinguistic means, etc. Политическая лингвистика, Issue № 6 (78), Pages 23-28