唐纳德·特朗普的政治顾问可能告诉他，他不是一位受欢迎的总统。然而，这位共和党现任者显然有一个计划来提高他在选民中的地位：他将试图从美国人那里购买他未能赢得的支持。
Donald Trump has probably been told by his political advisers that he’s not a popular president. The Republican incumbent, however, apparently has a plan to improve his standing with voters: He’s going to try to buy the kind of support from Americans he’s failed to earn.
他计划寄出的支票清单不断增加。在宣布大约100万美国人很快将获得与《平价医疗法案》相关的500美元回扣支票后，总统还宣布为超过2000万老年人提供90美元支票，以帮助支付医疗保险B部分保费，这可能完全合法，也可能不完全合法。然后，当然，还有一个大问题：特朗普承诺向每个美国成年人发送5，000美元的支票，但前提是他们投票支持保留共和党领导的国会。
The list of checks he’s planning to send keeps growing. After announcing that roughly a million Americans will soon receive $500 rebate checks related to the Affordable Care Act, the president also announced $90 checks for more than 20 million seniors to help cover Medicare Part B premiums, which may or may not be entirely legal And then, of course, there’s the big one: Trump promised to send $5,000 checks to every American adult, but only if they vote to keep a Republican-led Congress.
当他一个月前第一次提出这个想法时存在的所有问题都没有消失他仍然负担不起大约1.3万亿美元的价格标签;该计划似乎仍然不合法;他仍然需要国会的批准（这永远不会发生）;这肯定会让通货膨胀变得更糟;而且，如果总统认真对待这样的计划，他不必等到中期选举。
All of the problems that existed when he first pitched the idea a month ago haven’t gone away He still can’t afford the roughly $1.3 trillion price tag; the plan still doesn’t appear to be legal; he’d still need congressional approval (which will never happen); it would definitely make inflation worse; and, if the president were serious about such a plan, he doesn’t have to wait until the midterms.
事实上，这些问题实际上在最近几周已经转移。民意调查显示，公众条件反射地反对在选举周期的关键时刻分裂共和党的策略。
Indeed, the problems have actually managed to metastasize in recent weeks. Polls show the public reflexively pushing back against the gambit which has divided Republicans at a key moment in the election cycle.
特朗普似乎并不在乎。相反，他开始每天都沉迷于这种胡言乱语，假装这是选民应该认真对待的真正计划，就好像美国人是白痴一样。(At周一晚上内布拉斯加州的一次反弹中，他表示，支付这项努力的1.3万亿美元成本“很容易”。）这种令人麻木的言论显然是不可能认真对待的，但它让我想起了众议院议长迈克·约翰逊周末所说的话当人们参加竞选并向你承诺免费的东西时，你必须问真正的价格是什么：这是你的自由。
Trump doesn’t seem to care. On the contrary, he’s started to lean into this nonsense on a daily basis pretending it’s a real plan that voters should take seriously, as if Americans were idiots. (At a Monday night rally in Nebraska, he said it’d be “easy” to cover the $1.3 trillion cost of such an endeavor.) The mind-numbing rhetoric is obviously impossible to take seriously, but it reminded me of something House Speaker Mike Johnson said over the weekend When people are out on the campaign and they’re promising free things to you, you must ask what the real price is: It is your freedom.
这将推高成本;它会毁掉经济;这将使人们更加依赖政府，最终，这就是共产党的最终目标。
It will drive costs up; it will ruin the economy; it will make people more dependent upon government, and ultimately, that’s the communists’ ultimate goal.
从上下文来看，我有理由确信这位路易斯安那州共和党人指的不是总统，他正在竞选活动中承诺，但众议院议长对政客“承诺免费”的担忧与特朗普荒谬的竞选承诺之间的脱节是很难忽视的。
In context, I’m reasonably sure the Louisiana Republican wasn’t referring to the president, who’s out on the campaign trail promising , but the disconnect between the House speaker’s concerns about politicians “promising free things” and Trump’s ridiculous campaign promises is hard to miss.
人们很容易忘记，不久前，共和党总统候选人的大部分候选资格都是围绕这样一个想法建立的，即民主党向选民提供“免费东西”，这是一个不可原谅的错误--一系列奢侈品，例如获得负担得起的医疗保健和大学教育。
It’s easy to forget that in the recent past, GOP presidential candidates built much of their candidacies around the idea that Democrats were making an unforgiveable mistake by offering voters “free stuff” — a list of luxuries like access to affordable medical care and a college education.
十年后，一位不受欢迎的共和党总统似乎非常渴望用免费资金来换取美国人的爱。
A decade later, an unpopular Republican president appears quite desperate to buy Americans’ love with offers of free money.
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