<p>Praise is one of the most effective methods of emotional impact in political communication. The article examines communication strategies and tactics of interviewers containing statements of praise as well as reacting replica. The aim of the research is to analyze statements of praise and reacting replica. Twenty political interviews with American politician and current president Donald Trump for the period from 2017 to 2023 were analyzed. The article is a contribution to the study and development of political interviews as a special genre of political discourse. Speech communication as a strategic process needs thorough selection of optimal linguistic resources. Thus, the study of speech strategies and tactics of praise in political discourse enables to identify strategically determined situations of expressing a positive assessment, determine a potential list of tactics taking into account changes in communication parameters, and consider the acceptability of the choice of a particular tactic from the perspective of interviewer and interviewee. The research was conducted using the method of contextual analysis and pragmalinguistic analysis along with the method of component analysis. The analysis found that journalists have many ways to express praise in a political interview. Statements of praise are constructed employing such linguistic means as expressive language, intensifiers, repetition, syntactic parallelism. Politicians’ reactions included strategy of full, partial acceptance of praise and strategy of rejection of praise. The scientific value of the research lies in the need for its main results concerning political communication, and its practical value consists in providing certain materials related to political linguistics field.</p>