如果你是一名记者，即将采访唐纳德·特朗普总统，并打算问出那些对普通总统也会问的问题，那你最好先清楚自己会得到怎样的回答：谎言、胡言乱语、天马行空的幻想以及侮辱性言辞。真正有价值的新闻内容恐怕少之又少，因为他只会没完没了地重复同样的话。
If you’re a journalist about to interview President Donald Trump and ask the kind of questions you’d ask a normal president, you ought to know what you’re going to get. You’re going to get lies, nonsense, fantasies and insults. And probably very little news, because he just repeats himself endlessly.
本周二，《时代》周刊的政治记者埃里克·科尔特莱萨与主编萨姆·雅各布斯获得了整整75分钟与特朗普单独交流的机会，本想借此为杂志撰写第56篇关于他的 报道。然而由于他们选择了顺从而非真正的深度追问，最终得到的却是1.1万字的语无伦次之词、毫无新意的陈词滥调以及毫无逻辑的随口胡诌——这些内容足以让所有相关人士蒙羞。
Time political correspondent Eric Cortellessa and editor-in-chief Sam Jacobs had a whopping 75 minutes with Trump on Tuesday to get something worthy of the magazine’s record 56th cover story about him But because they chose deference over true inquiry, they ended up with 11,000 words of incoherence, zombie talking points and free association that ought to embarrass everyone involved.
特朗普唯一兴致高昂且确实有所了解的话题就是自己的各类建筑工程项目，因此《时代》周刊便以此作为 标题：“特朗普建造了什么”。然而真正值得报道的其实是他所破坏与失去的一切。要讲述这个故事，就必须当场让特朗普面对现实：在他出错时予以纠正，在他胡言乱语时予以指正，在他长篇大论时打断他，还要考验他是否真的了解自己所说的内容。
The only thing Trump was effusive and actually knowledgeable about was his portfolio of construction projects, so that’s what Time went with for the cover title: “What Trump Has Built But what he has destroyed and what he has lost is the real story. And you can’t tell that story without confronting him with reality in the moment — without correcting him when he’s wrong, calling him out when he’s making no sense, cutting him off when he rambles and testing him to see if he actually knows anything about what he’s talking about.
特朗普生活在一片崇拜的泡沫之中。记者们是少数被允许接近他的“正常人”。可《时代》周刊却并未去打破这个泡沫。
Trump exists in a bubble of adoration. Journalists are the only relatively normal people allowed anywhere near him. But Time didn’t disturb the bubble.
特朗普的《时代》杂志对话者本应在他与伊朗开战前，严厉追问他无知的深度及其完全缺乏退出战略——更别提他那些怪诞（谢天谢地，只是空话）的威胁，要抹除伊朗文明。他们本应就他不合逻辑的关税、关税的合法性存疑以及给美国消费者带来的巨大痛苦向他施压。这本可以从一些基本问题开始：“你认为关税如何运作？谁来买单？关税向谁征税？”
Trump’s Time interlocutors should have aggressively interrogated him about the depths of his ignorance before going to war with Iran and his utter lack of an exit strategy — to say nothing of his grotesque (and thank goodness, empty) threats to wipe out Iran’s civilization. They should have pressed him about his illogical tariffs, their arguable legality and the considerable pain they are causing American consumers. That could have started with some basic questions: “How do you think tariffs work? Who pays? Who are they a tax on?”
他们本应直截了当地告诉特朗普他在美国民众中的地位。也许他们可以引用民调，显示大多数美国人“强烈不赞成”他的工作表现，并询问身边围绕着阿谀奉承者是否让他严重脱离了美国民众。结果，特朗普碾压了他们。
They should have leveled with Trump about his standing with the American people. Perhaps they could have cited polls showing a majority of Americans “strongly disapprove” of his job performance, and ask whether surrounding himself with sycophants has put him grievously out of touch with the American people. Instead, Trump steamrolled them.
科特莱萨和雅各布斯试图让特朗普在人工智能政策上制造新闻，但他们错误地假设他对该话题有一点概念。他们最该问却没问的核心问题是：“你明白人工智能和超级智能是两码事吗？你明白人工智能可能或不可能受到限制吗？”
Cortellessa and Jacobs tried to get Trump to make news on artificial intelligence policy, but they mistakenly assumed he has a clue about the topic. The most essential questions they didn’t ask: “Do you understand that artificial intelligence and superintelligence are two different things? Do you understand how AI might or might not be limited?”
相反，当他们询问他与人工智能领袖会晤的内幕时，特朗普的回答像个糊涂的幼童：“听着，你知道，这不像我盖大楼，那是我随手拈来的事。对我来说那更容易，也是我一直在做的事。这是个全新的世界，可能大多是好的，但也有些坏处。这是个非常强大的世界。非常——潜力真的可能对医疗有好处。我是说，他们现在搞出的一些东西，以前连想都不敢想。但有好就有坏，我们想要他们，想要他们所有人都自我约束。”
Instead, when they asked about what’s going on inside his meetings with AI leaders, Trump responded like a befuddled toddler: Well, look, you know, this isn’t like I’m building a building, which I can do out of my back pocket.
这一切都发生在访谈刚开始的几分钟里。随后，采访者问总统是否信任OpenAI的首席执行官萨姆·阿尔特曼。特朗普答道：“我的智商极高，对人工智能的理解远超其他任何总统，因为我确实具备这方面的能力。”当被问及自己与人工智能相关的会谈情况时，总统滔滔不绝地讲了427个字，内容涉及中国领导人、债务、利率，以及美国与瑞士之间在金表贸易上的逆差。《时代》周刊的记者们并未打断他。按理说，采访者或许该考虑改变策略才对。但事实并非如此。
It’s easier to do that for me, and it’s what I’ve been doing. This is a whole new world, probably mostly good, but some bad too. And it’s a very powerful world. It’s a very — potentially really could be good for medical. I mean, some of the things they’re coming up with now that they never even thought about. But with good comes bad, and we want them, we want all of them to behave for themselves. That was within the first few minutes. Later, the interviewers asked the president if he trusts OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. “I have the highest of IQs,” Trump replied.
那些坚定支持“让美国再次伟大”理念的人也开始质疑现状了——播客主2026年10月2日。接着，在谈到伊朗问题时，他们问道：“一位倡导和平的总统，怎么能呼吁消灭整个民族呢？”对此，特朗普似乎试图为这一行为辩护，称伊朗政权曾因民众抗议而杀害了数万名本国人民。
“I understand it much more than I think any president would, because I do have an ability on this.”When asked what his AI meetings have been like, the president responded with 427 words about China’s president, debt, interest rates, and the trade deficit in gold watches with Switzerland. The Time journalists didn’t interrupt. You would think the interviewers might have considered changing tactics at some point.
一个恰当的后续提问应该是这样：“您漫不经心地谈及要摧毁伊朗，把那里的‘整个文明’打回‘石器时代’。针对平民发动攻击属于战争罪行。您真的在考虑这么做吗？”
But no. People very committed to MAGA beginning to question what’s happening: Podcaster October 2, 2026 Instead, on the topic of Iran, they asked: “How can the president of peace be calling for the annihilation of an entire people?”
按理说，《时代》周刊的记者们本该强硬地就特朗普近期禁止某些记者进入白宫的举措向他发难。用特朗普自己的话说，这些记者“故意撰写负面报道”。记者们问道：“既然您限制部分同行进入白宫，美国民众凭什么相信您尊重新闻自由呢？”
Trump then seemed to justify such an act by noting that the Iranian regime had killed tens of thousands of its own people for engaging in protest. An appropriate follow-up would have been something like: “You talk casually about annihilating Iran and sending its ‘whole civilization’ back ‘to the stone age.’ Targeting civilians is a war crime. Are you seriously considering it?”
他们本该这样质问：“您近日的所作所为完全是一个企图控制媒体报道的独裁者的行径，也是对《第一修正案》的公然践踏。您难道还希望看到国内新闻媒体因对您的报道不够正面而遭到政府惩罚吗？”
The one place you could reasonably have expected the Time journalists to challenge Trump with a stiff spine was in relation to Trump’s recent moves to ban journalists from the White House who, in Trump’s words, “purposely write negative news They asked: “Why should Americans believe that you respect the free press when you’re restricting access to the White House to some of our colleagues?”
当特朗普称CNN主播凯特兰·柯林斯“疯了”时，记者们本该插话道：“像个校园恶霸一样辱骂他人——而且几乎都是女性——这怎么能算是总统该有的举止呢？”他们本该追问：“您所谓的‘假新闻’其实都是真实的新闻。请举出一个您认为来自CNN、MSNBC或Politico的‘假新闻’的例子吧。”
They should have said: “What you did the other day was the act of an authoritarian who wants to control media coverage and a direct assault on the First Amendment. Do you still want to see national news outlets punished by the government for not writing more positively about you?”When Trump referred to CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins as “crazy,” they should have interjected: “How can you possibly think it’s presidential to insult people – almost always women – like a schoolyard bully?”
“腐败行径”：乔·拜登痛斥特朗普发起的百万美元模因币竞赛活动。可即便如此，对特朗普来说仍不够“恭敬”。他怒气冲冲地说道：“你们一个正面的问题都没问我。全是这种问题：这个怎么样？那个怎么样？全都是负面问题。”这位总统还补充道：“我修复了白宫的秩序，而且在战争方面也干得不错，理应得到赞誉。”任何有幸获得机会向特朗普提问的记者，都有责任向读者、国家和全世界呈现事实真相，看看除了自己的建筑工程外，他是否还能对其他任何事情给出合乎逻辑的回答。这样的内容完全值得作为 故事来报道。
They should have said: “What you call ‘fake news’ is real news. Give us one example of what you consider ‘fake news’ from CNN, MS NOW, or Politico.”‘Corruption’: Joe slams Trump’s $1,000,000 meme coin contest And guess what? It still wasn’t enough deference for Trump, who fumed, “You haven’t asked me one f—ing positive question. All of this. What about this? What about that? What about that? What about this? All negative.”The president added, “I should be given credit for fixing the White House because I’m also doing very well with the war.”Any reporter lucky or unlucky enough to get the chance to ask Trump unvetted questions owes it to their readers, the nation and the world to confront him with reality and see if he’s even capable of giving coherent answers about anything besides his building projects. would be a worthy cover story.
《时代》杂志对特朗普的专访实属一次巨大的错失良机——MS NOW
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