唐纳德·特朗普总统于周六上午再次对新闻媒体发起猛烈抨击。就在前一天，他通过禁止美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）随他乘坐“空军一号”前往田纳西州，进一步加剧了与新闻机构的对峙。
President Donald Trump launched a fresh attack on the press on Saturday morning, a day after escalating his standoff with news outlets by blocking CNN from traveling with him on Air Force One as he travels to Tennessee this weekend.
他在“真实社交”（Truth Social）平台上写道：“为什么像CNN和MSDNC这样的‘假新闻’制造者，能够进入白宫这个极其神圣的地方？尽管我在大选中取得了巨大胜利，但多年来，关于‘特朗普’的报道几乎100%都是负面的！”
“Why should perpetrators of FAKE NEWS, like CNN and MSDNC, be allowed access to a very sacred place, the White House?” he wrote on Truth Social. “Despite my big Election Win, almost 100% of ‘TRUMP’ coverage is negative, and has been for years!”
当天稍晚，总统在简短的记者会上否认自己只希望支持他的媒体进入记者池。他对MS NOW电视台的记者阿凯拉·加德纳说：“我要的是真实新闻，而不是假新闻——就像你那样。”他补充道：“我热爱开放、自由的新闻界。我不喜欢虚假的新闻界。”
In brief remarks to reporters later that morning, the president denied that he only wanted news outlets that support him in the press pool, telling MS NOW’s Akayla Gardner, “I want real news, not fake news — like you.” He added, “I love an open, free press. I don’t like the fake press.”
特朗普还猛烈抨击媒体，因为媒体报道称，正在竞选佛罗里达州州长并获得特朗普背书的众议员拜伦·唐纳德，已从竞选网站上删除了关于总统的提及。（唐纳德表示，网站修改工作已进行了约两个月，旨在突出其竞选纲领。）特朗普在“真实社交”上写道，应由法院来“制止这种完全不诚实的政治行为”，并指责媒体“腐败且不诚实”。
Trump also railed against the media for reporting that Rep. Byron Donalds, who is running for Florida governor with Trump’s endorsement, removed references to the president from his campaign website. (Donalds has said that the website changes had been in the works for about two months and that they were meant to emphasize his campaign’s platform.) Trump wrote on Truth Social it should be up to the courts to “stop this totally dishonest form of Politics” and called the media “corrupt and dishonest.” Trump’s latest affront to legitimate news outlets follows a week of attempts to bend the media to his will. Unhappy about straightforward coverage of his administration, his sagging approval rating, and the impact of his policies, he has tried to freeze out news outlets that don’t deliver the coverage he wants, upending the traditional role of the White House press corps at a pivotal moment, with just over five weeks to go before the midterm elections.
特朗普对正规新闻机构的最新挑衅，发生在他试图迫使媒体屈从于其意志的一周之后。由于不满媒体对其政府、其下滑的支持率及其政策影响的直白报道，他试图排斥那些不提供他所期望报道的新闻机构，在中期选举仅剩五周多的关键时刻，颠覆了白宫新闻团队的传统角色。共和党人私下表示，他们正为选举日的失败做准备。
Republicans have said privately they are bracing for defeat on Election Day.
总统上周首次宣布将封杀MS NOW、CNN和Politico，这些媒体的记者周六被拒绝进入白宫。随后的几天里，这三家媒体起诉了特朗普及其政府的多名官员，包括福克斯新闻在内的电视新闻联播池也暂停了对特朗普的报道。白宫则以创建“特朗普电视”作为回击，在线播放该政府所谓的“最精彩片段”。周四，一名联邦法官下令白宫立即暂时恢复这些媒体的采访权限。但总统仍坚持己见，禁止CNN随行报道他前往参加田纳西州对阵德克萨斯州大学橄榄球赛的行程，导致该电视网无法履行其电视联播池的职责。
The president first announced that he would ban MS NOW, CNN and Politico last week, and the outlets’ journalists were denied access to White House grounds Saturday. In the days that followed, the three outlets sued Trump and several officials in his administration and the TV network pool, which includes Fox News, suspended its coverage of Trump. The White House countered by creating “Trump TV,” an online stream of the administration’s so-called “greatest hits.” A federal judge ordered the White House to temporarily and immediately restore the outlets’ access on Thursday. But the president nevertheless dug in and banned CNN from Air Force One for his trip to attend the Tennessee-Texas college football game, preventing the network from fulfilling its TV pool responsibilities.
特朗普的禁令受到了言论自由倡导者以及两党议员的广泛批评。美联社退休资深白宫记者罗恩·福尼尔表示，这个问题不仅仅关乎新闻机构报道白宫的权利。
Trump’s ban has been widely criticized by free speech advocates, as well as lawmakers from both parties. Ron Fournier, a retired veteran White House correspondent for The Associated Press, said the issue is not just news outlets’ right to cover the White House.
他在接受MS NOW采访时说：“如果特朗普总统能够因为媒体批评他而惩罚媒体，那么他就可以惩罚每一个批评总统的美国人。这是非美国式的行为。这是危险的。这对我们所有人都是一种威胁。”总统对媒体表现出如此赤裸裸的敌意几乎没有先例。特朗普经常用粗俗的人身攻击来侮辱女性记者。去年，在美联社拒绝使用“美国湾”这一术语后，总统将该媒体踢出了新闻联播池，至今仍限制美联社对白宫的报道权限。
“If President Trump is able to get away with punishing the media because they’re being critical of a president, he can punish every American for being critical of a president,” he told MS NOW in an interview. “It is un-American. It is dangerous. It’s a threat to all of us.” There has been little precedent for such naked hostility toward the press from a president. Trump has routinely insulted female journalists in crass personal terms. After The Associated Press refused to use the term “Gulf of America” last year, the president booted the outlet from the press pool and still limits the AP’s access to White House coverage.
特朗普在第二任期内一贯试图突破法律界限，他在新闻禁令问题上似乎也采取了类似做法。法律界对于总统是否有权禁止特定媒体进入白宫特定区域尚无定论。美联社针对该禁令提起的诉讼仍在进行中，联邦上诉法院已表示，目前禁令的某些方面可以继续维持。
Trump has consistently sought to push the bounds of the law in his second term, and he appears to be taking a similar approach to his press ban. The law is unsettled on whether the president can ban certain outlets from certain parts of the White House. The AP’s lawsuit over the press ban is ongoing, and a federal appeals court has said that some aspects of the ban can stand for now.