这位厌恶‘留胡子的人、怪人和懦夫’的美国国防部长，最近宣布在五角大楼设立宗教事务办公室。除了金钱和麦当劳，唐纳德·特朗普似乎最钟爱的就是那种‘高大宏伟’的围墙。目前政府正耗费数十亿纳税人的资金，来实现总统在美墨边境修建30英尺高钢制护栏及高科技监控系统的构想。
The US defense secretary who hates ‘beardos, weirdos and wimps’ has announced an Office of Religious Affairs at the Pentagon Apart from money and McDonald’s, there’s nothing Donald Trump seems to love more than a “big, beautiful” wall. The government is currently spending billions of taxpayer dollars to fulfill the president’s fantasy of lining the US-Mexico border with 30ft steel bollard walls and high-tech surveillance.
然而特朗普政府似乎对政教分离原则并不热衷。虽然总统或许会顺带推销《圣经》，但他本人并非虔诚的信徒，他只崇拜金钱。不过其政府高层却充斥着宗教狂热分子，他们似乎决意要将美国重塑为一个基督教神权国家。阿瓦·马德哈维是《卫报》专栏作家。
What the Trump administration is apparently not so keen on is the wall of separation between church and state. While the president may hawk bibles as a side hustle, he is not exactly devout; he serves only mammon. The top levels of his government, however, are stuffed full of religious fanatics who appear hellbent on remaking the country as a Christian theocracy. Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist