唐纳德·特朗普已经对自由新闻界忍无可忍。在他的第二个任期内，他一直在试图将新闻媒体逐出白宫，并在社交媒体上大发雷霆，指责报道不公。随着中期选举临近，他的民调支持率持续下滑，他的敌意也与日俱增。本周，这位总统在椭圆形办公室接受《时代》周刊记者采访时彻底失控。
Donald Trump has had it with the free press. He’s spent his second term trying to ban news outlets from the White House and ranting on social media about unfair coverage, and he’s only growing more hostile as his poll numbers tank ahead of the midterm elections. The president lost it on a Time reporter this week during an interview in the Oval Office.
“你他妈的一个正面问题都没问我，”他说。“全是这些。这个怎么样？那个怎么样？那个怎么样？这个怎么样？全是负面的。”此前，记者曾询问米奇·麦康奈尔是否应因健康问题辞去参议院职务。特朗普回应称，麦康奈尔步履蹒跚的视频“让许多共和党人感到失望”，随后又指出“瞌睡乔（拜登）给所有人都发了赦免令”。接着，他对记者爆发，质问为何如此频繁地询问白宫翻修事宜，并抱怨记者没有问他关于委内瑞拉的问题。记者指出，在采访的前半部分，双方已经详细讨论过委内瑞拉问题。
“You haven’t asked me one fucking positive question,” he said. “All of this. What about this? What about that? What about that? What about this? All negative.”The president had been asked about whether Mitch McConnell should resign from the Senate because of his health issues. Trump responded by indicating that videos of McConnell struggling were a “disappointment to a lot of Republicans,” before noting that “Sleepy Joe gave pardons to everybody.”He then exploded at the reporter, questioning why they were asking about the White House renovations so much, and griping that they hadn’t asked him about Venezuela. The reporter pointed out that they talked about Venezuela at length earlier in the interview.
“我不明白。我就坐在这里。我做了这么多事情，”特朗普说。“我接管了白宫，让它再次变得美丽。”采访的其余部分描绘了一位沮丧的总统形象，他将自己封闭在一个另类现实中，而整个国家正在转向反对他。
“I don’t understand. I’m sitting here. I’ve done all this stuff,” Trump said. “I took the White House and made it beautiful again.”The rest of the interview portrayed a frustrated president cocooning himself in an alternate reality as the nation turns on him.
当被要求向那些为支付账单而苦苦挣扎的人们解释，为何他花费如此多的时间和精力翻修白宫如此重要时，特朗普大谈特谈白宫是“我们伟大的象征”，并虚假地声称翻修不会给美国纳税人带来任何开支。“对我来说，这很放松，”他谈到翻修过程时说。特朗普在回答中并未触及生活成本危机。周四发布的一项美联社-NORC民调显示，仅有17%的美国人认可他对这一问题的处理方式。
When asked to explain to people who are struggling to pay bills why it is so important for him to spend so much time and energy renovating the White House, Trump waxed about how the White House is “a symbol of our greatness” and claimed, falsely, that the renovations are coming at no expense to the American taxpayer. “For me, it’s relaxing,” he said of the renovation process. Trump did not address the cost of living crisis in his answer. An Associated Press-NORC poll released Thursday found that only 17 percent of Americans approve of his handling of the issue.
特朗普还严厉批评了由保守派主导的最高法院。尽管在他上任第一任期成功任命了三名大法官后，最高法院曾作出过一系列对特朗普有利的裁决，但特朗普仍对法院的表现感到不满。当被问及是否后悔提名尼尔·戈萨奇（Neil Gorsuch）、布雷特·卡瓦诺（Brett Kavanaugh）和艾米·科尼·巴雷特（Amy Coney Barrett）时，他回答道：“我又能怎么办呢？我把他们任命到了那个位置上，但他们却经常投票反对我……我给了他们‘终身职位’，但他们还是经常投票反对我；当然，他们也有时候会投票支持我。而民主党人则始终立场坚定、毫无变化。”
Trump also bashed the conservative-dominated Supreme Court, despite a series of favorable rulings after he was able to appoint three justices during his first term. The Supreme Court has indeed been kind to Trump, but it has not enabled him to skirt the Constitution at will, to his dismay. “Yeah. Yeah,” he responded when asked if he regretted nominating Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett. “What can I do? I put them in. They voted against me too often. I was very — I gave them the position of a lifetime, and they vote against me often. They vote for me too. The Democrats stick like glue — those three, they virtually never vary.”
这次采访正值特朗普及其政府大力强调对人工智能发展的支持、并多次推广数据中心建设的背景下进行的。当被问及那些反对建设数据中心的美国人（占美国总人口的71%）是否错了时，特朗普表示媒体对这些人的观点报道不公正；同时，他也基本认同那些反对在自家社区内建设数据中心的美国民众的看法。他说：“但如果我能直接与美国民众沟通，并且得到公正的媒体报道（不过这根本不可能发生），那么我还是希望建设数据中心的。当然，我不希望数据中心建在我家旁边，但我希望它们能建在我的所在县里。不过，如果有人把数据中心建在别人家里，我可能确实不会高兴……尽管那个人的房子可能价值要高得多。”
The interview took place as Trump and his administration have emphasized their commitment to artificial intelligence, and as the president has repeatedly promoted data centers. When asked if the 71 percent of Americans who oppose data centers are wrong, Trump indicated that the press hasn’t been covering them fairly. He also essentially agreed with Americans who oppose having them in their communities. “But if I spoke to the American people, and if I got a fair press on, which I never would, I would like to have data centers,” he said. “It doesn’t mean I want them right next to my house, but certainly I like them in my county. They show a data center, and I go up right next to a guy’s house, and I wouldn’t necessarily like that. Although his house is probably a hell of a lot more valuable.”
在讨论外交政策时，特朗普提出了一种“独特”的实现世界和平的方式：“通过摧毁伊朗，我们为世界带来了和平。”他再次威胁称要将这个拥有9000万人口的国家的存在彻底抹去。他还声称，如果他不是总统的话，以色列和沙特阿拉伯也会“从地球上消失”。
Trump offered a novel approach to world peace when discussing foreign policy: “Because by annihilating Iran, we’ve created peace in the world,” he said, threatening once again to obliterate the nation of 90 million from existence. He also claimed that Israel and Saudi Arabia would both be “wiped off the face of the planet” if he weren’t the president.
当被问及他最初认为伊朗战争会在几周内结束时，特朗普将这一时间表归咎于媒体，并表示，与美国深陷越南战争数十年相比，伊朗战争也没那么糟。
When asked about his initial stance that the Iran war would be over in a matter of weeks, Trump blamed the press for that timeline, and said the Iran war isn’t so bad when compared to the decades the United States was entangled in Vietnam.
当然，特朗普确实说过，战争在他启动后很快就会结束。他今年早些时候说：“我们预计需要四到五周。”“但我们有能力让这场战争持续远超这个时间。”
Trump did, of course, say the war would be over quickly after he started it. “We projected four to five weeks,” he said earlier this year. “But we have the capability to go far longer than that.”