根据《华尔街日报》对内阁成员任职情况的一项重磅调查报道，总统唐纳德·特朗普据称对财政部长斯科特·贝森特（Scott Bessent）有很多赞赏之处，但也曾私下抱怨这位内阁官员性格强硬、难以相处。
President Donald Trump has reportedly found plenty to like about Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent but he has also privately groused about his cabinet official’s difficult streak, according to a bombshell Wall Street Journal investigation of the cabinet member’s tenure.
特朗普在4月份于内华达州举行的一场活动中总结了这段关系，他对现场人群说，他在贝森特身上“创造了一个怪物”。
Trump summed up the relationship during an April event in Nevada, telling the crowd that he’d “created a monster” in Bessent.
然而，鉴于《华尔街日报》的这篇报道，这句话呈现出了不同的意味。报道描绘了贝森特在承受巨大压力的财政部主事期间，与高级官员发生冲突、向助手发火，并屡屡成为火爆对抗焦点的场景。
The line, however, takes on a different complexion in light of The Journal’s account, which depicts Bessent presiding over an extraordinarily high-pressure Treasury Department while clashing with senior officials, erupting at aides and repeatedly finding himself at the center of explosive confrontations.
贝森特对《华尔街日报》描述的部分事件提出了异议，但该报道基于对现任及前任官员以及熟悉这些插曲的其他人员的采访，其中包含了大量令人瞩目的细节。以下是其中最劲爆的五个细节：特朗普将自己塑造为“怪物”的缔造者据报道，特朗普逐渐看重贝森特的能力，但也把这位财政部长描述为难以相处，同时将贝森特新近获得的声望归功于自己的一部分作用：总统曾对顾问表示，他认为贝森特擅长平息市场情绪，并鼓励他设法找出降低利率的方法。
Bessent disputed some of the incidents described by The Journal but the report, based on interviews with current and former officials and others familiar with the episodes, contains no shortage of striking details. Here are five of the wildest: Trump Takes Credit for Creating ‘a Monster’Trump has reportedly come to value Bessent’s abilities but has also portrayed his Treasury secretary as difficult, while stealing some credit for Bessent’s newfound prominence: The president has told advisers that he thinks Bessent is adept at calming the markets, and he has encouraged him to help figure out a way to lower interest rates.
但在4月份内华达州的一场活动中，特朗普将贝森特形容为难对付的人，并居功自傲地认为自己将这位财政部长变成了一位“大明星”。“我创造了一个怪物，”特朗普开玩笑说。贝森特在财政部对其副手爆粗口发飙报道中描述的最生动的场景之一，发生在特朗普指示贝森特调查涉及明尼苏达州索马里社群的欺诈指控之后。
But during an event in Nevada in April, Trump described Bessent as difficult and took credit for turning the Treasury secretary into a “big star.”“I created a monster,” Trump joked. Bessent’s Profanity-Laced Treasury Blowup at His Own Deputy One of the most vivid scenes described in the report came after Trump directed Bessent to investigate fraud allegations involving Minnesota’s Somali community.
据报道，贝森特认为财政部负责恐怖主义和金融情报事务的副部长约翰·赫利（John Hurley）行动不够迅速。据《华尔街日报》报道：特朗普总统刚刚要求他的财政部长调查明尼苏达州索马里裔社区中存在的欺诈行为；贝森特（Bessent）认为他的某位高级助手在拖延处理此事。
Bessent reportedly believed John Hurley, Treasury’s undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, was not moving quickly enough. According to The Journal: President Trump had just asked his Treasury secretary to investigate allegations of fraud in Minnesota’s Somali community – and Bessent thought one of his top deputies was dragging his feet.
在一月份的一次财政部会议上，贝森特当着助手们的面质问了负责反恐和金融情报工作的副部长约翰·赫利（John Hurley），并对他大声辱骂。据知情人士透露，贝森特的喊叫声非常大，以至于附近的工作人员都能听到。
During a January meeting at the Treasury Department, Bessent confronted John Hurley, the agency’s undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, yelling at him in front of aides and unleashing profanities. Bessent shouted so loudly that staff working nearby could hear him, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter.
几周后，贝森特与助手们讨论了如何处理赫利的问题——赫利当时已经获得参议院的批准，被任命为美国驻经济合作与发展组织（OECD）的大使。
Weeks later, Bessent discussed with aides the idea of finding Hurley, who had been confirmed by the Senate for his position, a job outside the department, the people said. Hurley left to be U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
贝森特的这种暴躁行为不仅针对高级政治官员；现任及前任财政部工作人员都描述了那里的工作环境非常紧张：贝森特会因为政策实施进度缓慢或媒体负面报道而大发雷霆。
Bessent’s Binder Incident Bessent’s reported frustrations were not limited to senior political officials. Current and former Treasury personnel described an intense working environment in which the secretary could lash out over the pace of implementing his agenda or negative press coverage.
据《华尔街日报》报道，有一次事件甚至与一些看似琐碎的事情有关——比如简报材料的整理方式。一些官员表示，贝森特曾因工作人员执行他的指令不够迅速，或未能有效应对媒体的负面报道而大发雷霆；去年，他对自己的每日简报材料的整理方式感到非常愤怒，甚至抓起装满文件的活页夹直接扔向了墙壁。贝森特本人否认了《华尔街日报》的这些指控。
One episode allegedly involved something as mundane as the organization of his briefing materials, according to The Journal: And his temper has flared. He has shouted at staff for not moving fast enough to implement his ideas and for failing to combat unfavorable media coverage, some of the officials said. Last year, Bessent got so angry about the way his daily briefing book was organized that he picked up the binder full of papers and threw it at a wall, people familiar with the matter said. Bessent denied the account to The Wall Street Journal.
“投资界很多人曾希望他是屋里的成年人，”前财政部官员、Beacon Policy Advisors管理合伙人Stephen Myrow表示。投资者“开始认为他的行事作风越来越像特朗普……这正在动摇他们对他的信心。”马斯克、普尔特与财长的“战斗季”贝森特据称与特朗普核心圈子中一些最有权势的人物也发生了著名的激烈冲突。据《华尔街日报》报道，财长据称沉醉于其“硬汉”形象，并在政府成立初期因国税局（IRS）问题与埃隆·马斯克发生了爆发性争吵。几个月后又发生了一起冲突，这次涉及联邦住房金融局（FHFA）局长比尔·普尔特。
“A lot of people in the investment community had hoped he was the adult in the room,” said Stephen Myrow, a former Treasury official and managing partner at Beacon Policy Advisors. Investors are “starting to see him as acting more and more like Trump…and that’s shaking confidence in him.”Musk, Pulte and the Treasury Secretary’s Fighting Season Bessent’s famously combative encounters have also reportedly extended to some of the most powerful figures in Trump’s orbit. The Treasury secretary reportedly revels in his “tough guy” image and had an explosive fight with Elon Musk during the early months of the administration in a dispute over the Internal Revenue Service, according to The Journal. Months later came another clash, this time involving Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte.
在特朗普政府初期，他在西翼因国税局问题与马斯克发生大声争吵后，不得不与马斯克分开。2025年9月，贝森特在一次私人晚宴上质问特朗普的住房事务负责人比尔·普尔特，并因指控普尔特在特朗普面前破坏自己的形象而对普尔特进行肢体威胁。贝森特后来在CNBC节目中调侃了与普尔特的冲突。
He had to be separated from Elon Musk early on in the Trump administration after the two men got into a shouting match in the West Wing during a disagreement over the Internal Revenue Service. Bessent confronted Trump’s housing chief, Bill Pulte, at a private dinner in September 2025, physically threatening Pulte over allegations that Pulte was undermining him with Trump. Bessent later made light of the confrontation with Pulte during a CNBC appearance.
“从亚历山大·汉密尔顿开始，财政部长们就有决斗的历史，”当被问及与普尔特的争吵时，他在CNBC采访中调侃道，“‘结果这次财政部这边赢得漂亮多了。’”贝森特据称在离开餐厅前朝自己食物吐了口唾沫《华尔街日报》报道中或许最离奇的一幕，发生的地点既不在财政部也不在白宫，而是在华盛顿的一家餐厅内。
“Treasury secretaries dating back to Alexander Hamilton have a history of dueling,” he quipped when asked during a CNBC interview about his argument with Pulte, “‘and it turned out a little better for Treasury’s side this time.”Bessent Allegedly Spat in His Own Food Before Leaving a Restaurant Perhaps the most bizarre scene in The Journal’s report unfolded not at Treasury or the White House, but inside a Washington restaurant.
12月，贝森特在那里用餐时，自由派活动组织“代码粉红”（Code Pink）的抗议者因特朗普政府的制裁政策开始嘲讽他。他的愤怒显然从抗议者转移到了餐厅本身。
Bessent was dining there in December when protesters from the liberal activist group Code Pink began heckling him over the Trump administration’s sanctions policies. His anger apparently shifted from the protesters to the restaurant itself.
12月，当自由派组织“代码粉红”的抗议者在华盛顿一家餐厅打断财政部长并批评特朗普政府的经济制裁政策时，贝森特称他们无知，并因店主未将其请出而对店主大发雷霆。据店主和一位附近的食客称，贝森特在离开前朝自己的食物吐了口唾沫。
When hecklers from the liberal group Code Pink interrupted the Treasury secretary at a Washington restaurant in December and criticized the Trump administration’s economic sanctions policies, Bessent called them ignorant and erupted at the owner of the restaurant for not removing them. According to the owner and also a nearby diner, Bessent spit in his own food before leaving.
《华尔街日报》的这篇人物特稿还暗示，贝森特的好斗倾向远超内部政策斗争，文中形容他“玻璃心”，遇到质疑时容易诉诸“人身攻击”。
The Journal’s portrait also suggested Bessent’s combative streak extends well beyond internal policy fights, and is described in the piece as “thin skinned” and prone to falling back on “ad hominem attacks” when challenged.
与此同时，据该报报道，贝森特的支持者承认他“可能好斗、脾气暴躁、对员工要求严苛”，MAGA盟友史蒂夫·班农形容他的态度实质上是：“我不在乎你的感受。如果你受伤了，抱歉，但请滚出去。”
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Bessent’s defenders, meanwhile, per the newspaper, acknowledged he “can be combative, has a temper and is demanding with staff,” with MAGA ally Steve Bannon describing his attitude as essentially: “I’m not interested in your feelings. If your feelings are hurt, I’m sorry, but get the f*ck out of here.”