鲜有人关注第一夫人梅拉尼娅·特朗普利用其政府职位谋取私利的种种手段。
Little attention is being paid to the ways first lady Melania Trump has found to cash in on her position in government.
虽然唐纳德·特朗普总统的敛财手段几乎每周都有新花样，由其子女经营的与其公司有关联的企业正获得巨额政府合同。但特朗普夫人利用白宫身份赚钱的方式却悄无声息。
While President Donald Trump's grift reveals something new almost weekly, businesses linked to his company, run by his heirs, are being handed huge government contracts. But Mrs. Trump's ways of making money off of the White House are staying quiet.
《费城询问报》编辑委员会周六撰文指出，此举皆属“特朗普无耻的‘偷窃艺术’”的一部分。本周，特朗普发起了一场电视广告宣传活动，由美国纳税人买单，为他自己及其“一个宏伟美妙的法案”造势，背景音乐不断重复吟唱“爱我，爱我”。除了特朗普的加密货币，第一夫人也有自己的币种。
The Editorial Board of the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote on Saturday morning that the move is all part of "Trump’s shameless Art of the Steal." This week, Trump launched a television ad campaign, paid for by U.S. tax dollars, promoting himself and his "One, Big Beautiful Bill," set to a song that continues chanting "Love me, love me" in the background. While there's Trump's cryptocurrency, there's also the first lady's.
编辑委员会回顾道：“她推出了$MELANIA，一种迷因币，初始市值约17亿美元，但迅速暴跌约95%。”但这仅在投资者套现约1亿美元之后发生。
"She launched $MELANIA, a memecoin that had an initial market capitalization of about $1.7 billion, but quickly plummeted by about 95 percent," the editorial board recalled. But that only came after investors banked about $100 million.
他们指出：“一起诉讼指控梅拉尼娅加密货币的设计者策划了一场‘拉高出货’骗局。”
"A lawsuit accused the designers of Melania’s cryptocurrency of orchestrating a 'pump-and-dump' scheme,'" they noted.
与小唐纳德·特朗普、埃里克·特朗普、贾里德·库什纳以及家族的加密货币项目不同，特朗普夫人并不显著涉足外国投资、政府合同、放松管制，或可能与白宫政策重叠的商业安排。相反，她专注的重点是如何在并未正式经营大型企业、也未担任“政府特使”的情况下获取商业利益。特朗普夫人主要通过媒体打造个人品牌并从中获利。《询问报》在文章中指出，尽管她比其他特朗普家族成员保持着更低调的公众形象，但她的亚马逊纪录片及相关内容交易是最大的例证。
Unlike Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, Jared Kushner, and the family’s cryptocurrency ventures, Mrs. Trump does not feature prominently in foreign investment, government contracts, deregulation, or business arrangements that could overlap with White House policy. Instead, what she's focused on is ways she can benefit commercially even though she isn't formally running a major corporation or working as a "government envoy." Mrs. Trump is building her brand and profiting primarily through media. The Inquirer suggested in the piece that while she is keeping a lower public profile than other Trump family members, her Amazon documentary and related content deal is the largest example.
特朗普传记作者迈克尔·沃尔夫本周指控，第一夫人新推出的“女性达沃斯”倡议，实则只是她为最新电影或真人秀节目策划内容的平台。
Trump biographer Michael Wolff alleged this week that the first lady's new "Davos for women" initiative is really just a platform for her to orchestrate content for her latest film or reality show.
批评者质疑，第一夫人是否应该利用其白宫身份和公开活动作为私人媒体项目的素材，尤其是当该项目的商业价值与其获得的总统特殊接触权不可分割时。据估计，她从亚马逊纪录片中已获利约4000万美元。她从回忆录《梅拉尼娅》中获得的收入目前未知。
Critics have raised questions about whether a first lady should be able to use her White House status and public events as material for a private media project, particularly when the project’s commercial value is inseparable from her unusual access to the presidency. So far, she's pocketed an estimated $40 million off of the Amazon documentary. It's unknown how much she made from her memoir titled Melania.
报道还重点提到了库什纳和伊万卡·特朗普在白宫任职期间的收益。在第一任期内，两人“在为纳税人工作的同时，报告的外部收入在1.72亿至6.4亿美元之间。这还不包括库什纳后来从沙特投资基金获得的20亿美元，用于启动如今被称为‘初创私募股权项目’的业务”，报道如此描述。
The report goes on to highlight what Kushner and Ivanka Trump managed to score from their time in the White House. In the first term, the two "reported between $172 million and $640 million in outside income while working for taxpayers. That was before Kushner got $2 billion from the Saudi investment fund to start what is now a "fledgling private equity venture," the board characterized.
当库什纳声称正在斡旋结束俄乌战争和伊朗战争时，他据称也在“试图从中东政府为这只私募股权基金筹集50亿美元，而此时他正担任特朗普与伊朗谈判和平协议的联络人”。“你不能既是外交官，又是沙特王室的金融棋子，”美国众议员杰米·拉斯金（民主党，马里兰州）表示。
While Kushner is away claiming to negotiate an end to the wars between Russia and Ukraine and an end to the war in Iran, he is also "reportedly trying to raise $5 billion for this private equity fund from Middle East governments, even as he serves as Trump’s point person in negotiating a peace deal with Iran." “You cannot both be a diplomat and a financial pawn of the Saudi monarchy at the same time,” said U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.).
如果选民在11月投票支持民主党，众议院监督委员会和司法委员会都计划调查这些利用政府职权直接谋利的报道。目前，似乎至少有一名共和党人支持这一行动。
If voters cast ballots for the Democrats in November, both the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees plan to investigate these reports of using the government directly for profit. So far, it appears at least one Republican supports the move.