周三，在白宫举行的“西班牙裔传统月”庆祝活动中，唐纳德·特朗普总统再次重复了一些他惯常使用的豪言壮语。不过，他似乎特别热衷于强调自己“拒绝领取总统薪水”这一行为是多么了不起。
Hispanic Heritage Month celebration Wednesday at the White House, President Donald Trump repeated a variety of familiar boasts, but he seemed especially interested in talking about how impressive it is that he doesn’t accept his presidential salary.
“在我的第一个任期内，我就把薪水捐出去了，不过我觉得当时没有任何媒体报道过这件事，”特朗普抱怨道，“第二个任期时我也依然选择了捐款。”特朗普声称自己将薪水用于修缮白宫。这些言论是在他公布一款人工智能聊天机器人的当天发表的。此前，他还曾夸耀道：“我没有领取自己的薪水；他们认为历史上没有其他总统会这样做。”
“In my first term, I donated it and I don’t think I ever got a story about it,” Trump whined, adding, “But in my second term, I donated it, too.”Trump claims he donates his salary to fix up the White House Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) The comments came a day after Trump, while unveiling an artificial intelligence chatbot, similarly bragged“I don’t take my salary. They think that no other president has ever served without receiving their salary.” (I’m not sure who “they” are, but Herbert Hoover John F. Kennedy also donated their presidential salaries.)
（虽然不清楚“他们”指的是谁，但赫伯特·胡佛和约翰·F·肯尼迪也曾将自己的总统薪水捐出过。）今年早些时候，在佐治亚州，特朗普再次宣扬类似的谎言，称：“我是唯一一个这样做的人，却没有任何人因此称赞我……其实很多媒体都报道过这件事。”据我所知，特朗普确实放弃了领取总统薪水的权利；但在人们急于称赞他的“慷慨行为”之前，需要提醒大家：这种说法其实隐藏着重要的细节。
Earlier this year in Georgia, the president pushed the same false line about American history, saying: “I’m the only schmuck. I get no credit for it. You know what, I get no credit for it. Nobody writes about it.” (In reality, lots of news outlets have written about it As best as I can tell, Trump really does waive his presidential salary, but before anyone rushes to give him credit for his magnanimity, this is one of those claims that comes with important fine print.
美国总统的年薪为40万美元，而现任共和党总统特朗普并没有领取这笔薪水。但关键在于——特朗普其实根本不需要这笔钱。
The base annual salary for an American president is $400,000, none of which the Republican incumbent accepts. But — and this is the important part — Trump doesn’t need the $400,000 a year .
尽管特朗普曾誓言要反对“以个人利益为目的的政治行为”，并坚决抵制那些利用职权中饱私囊的人，但实际上他自己却通过各种途径赚取了巨额财富。根据他最新的年度财务报告显示，在第二个任期的第一年里，他的收入至少达到了22亿美元，其中超过14亿美元来自加密货币相关业务。
As a for the nation’s highest office, Trump vowed to reject“the politics of personal profit” and to stand up to those who have gone to the nation’s capital and “lined their pockets.”But as a , Trump has practically sent his pants out to the tailors to get bigger pockets. In the first year of his second term, the Republican pulled in at least $2.2 billion including more than $1.4 billion in cryptocurrency-related income, according to his latest annual financial disclosure.
在美国历史上，没有哪位总统在任期内能获得如此巨大的经济收益。正如《纽约时报》最近的分析所指出的：“特朗普先生的财富收益是任何自由民主国家领导人都无法想象的；尤其是对于一位在任的美国总统来说，更是如此。没有任何现代西方领导人曾在任期内公开披露过如此巨额的财富。专家们表示，特朗普家族的财富使他跻身了一个与俄罗斯和土耳其的强人相似的阶层。”
No other president in American history has ever seen such financial gains while in office, and as a recent analysis from The New York Times explained“Mr. Trump’s profits are a haul once unimaginable for any leader of a liberal democracy, particularly a sitting American president. No modern Western leader has ever publicly disclosed such big windfalls while in office. The Trump family’s earnings, experts said, have moved him into an echelon of enrichment more associated with strongmen in Russia and Turkey.”
换句话说，下次当他再吹嘘自己放弃了40万美元的总统薪水时，请记住：仅去年一年，他就赚到了超过这个数额五倍的财富。
In other words, the next time he brags about forgoing his $400,000 salary, remember that he took home more than five times that amount just last year.
当特朗普吹嘘自己捐赠总统薪水时，请务必立即阅读相关细节说明。
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