“他对媒体的敌视其实是一种下意识的反应。”特朗普似乎几乎每天都会炮制出一些新的、更具攻击性的言论来抨击媒体。当一个人像唐纳德·特朗普那样极度厌恶主流媒体时，任何因素都阻挡不了他实施“惩罚”的念头。
‘His war against the press is something of a reflex for him.’Trump seems to invent ugly new variations on his press-bashing theme almost every day When you hate the mainstream press as much as Donald Trump does, nothing gets in the way of the punishment fantasy. Not court rulings.
无论是法庭裁决、公众舆论，甚至是媒体报道减少所带来的恶劣后果，都无济于事。当然，他也根本不在乎美国宪法第一修正案在民主制度中究竟应发挥怎样的作用。本周，他的“报复行动”又有了新的进展。
Not public opinion. Not even the dreadful consequence of less media coverage. And certainly not any awareness of how the first amendment is supposed to function in American democracy. This week, his revenge tour took yet another turn.
周一下午，特朗普前往内布拉斯加州进行竞选活动。按惯例，多家媒体应搭乘“空军一号”为其他记者提供现场报道。然而，特朗普却禁止他最不待见的媒体机构之一——《Politico》登上专机。
He barred one of his most disfavored media organizations – Politico – from boarding Air Force One, where it was supposed to provide “pool coverage” to the rest of the press corps as Trump traveled to Nebraska for a campaign stop on Monday afternoon.
这一举动引发了多家媒体的强烈声援，它们纷纷决定不填补《Politico》留下的空缺。
That move was met with a strong show of solidarity by several media outlets, who decided not to fill the Politico spot.
白宫则固执地自欺欺人，声称特朗普“仍会给予媒体前所未有的访问权限”。
And the White House was defiantly delusional, claiming that Trump will “continue to grant an unprecedented level of access to the press”.
这次事件同样伴随着特朗普对主流媒体的猛烈抨击，不过这次并未特别针对《Politico》。他在“Truth Social”上发文称：“《纽约时报》以及众多‘人造媒体’机构因欺骗行为及对国家的危害理应遭到逮捕。”
This latest chapter came with the usual blast of venom at the mainstream media, though not specifically aimed at Politico. “The New York Times and many other Artificial Media Outlets should be arrested for their dishonesty and disservice to our Country,” he posted on Truth Social.
此前在9月中旬，特朗普曾试图禁止《Politico》、CNN以及MSNBC进入白宫。这些媒体机构随即提起诉讼，指称特朗普的做法违宪。
The episode follows Trump’s effort in mid-September to ban Politico, CNN and MS Now from the White House. Those organizations quickly sued, charging that Trump’s action was unconstitutional.
由特朗普任命的法官蒂莫西·凯利最终支持了媒体一方，下达临时禁令要求白宫归还被没收的记者通行证。
Trump-appointed judge Timothy Kelly came down on the side of the media, issuing a temporary restraining order that ordered the White House to reinstate the press badges that had been taken away.
自那以后，CNN仍屡次被拒之“空军一号”门外，白宫给出的理由是：能进入白宫是一回事，能登上总统专机则是另一回事。
And since then, CNN has been kept off Air Force One repeatedly, using the rationale that access to the White House is one thing, but access to the president’s plane is another.
“法律条文的规定再清楚不过了，”代表这三家新闻机构的第一修正案律师泰德·布特鲁斯在一份声明中说道。
“The law is absolutely clear,” Ted Boutrous, the first amendment lawyer who is representing the three news organizations said in a statement.
“此举对我们的客户、第一修正案以及广大公众造成的伤害是深远的。”特朗普政府则认为，随同总统出行是一种特权而非权利。
“The harm to our clients, the first amendment and the public as a whole is profound.”The Trump administration’s position is that traveling with the president is a privilege not a right.
这场斗争尚未结束：凯利将于本周晚些时候就这些媒体机构提出的临时禁令申请举行听证会。该禁令旨在在正式审判前确保媒体能够继续采访报道。
The fight is not over, since Kelly will conduct a hearing later this week over the media outlets’ request for a preliminary injunction – a stopgap measure to protect press access in advance of a possible trial.
事实上，多年来特朗普一直在与个别记者乃至整个新闻机构发生冲突。目前，美联社、《华尔街日报》、《纽约时报》以及拥有ABC新闻台及多家地方分台的迪士尼公司都正卷入相关的法律纠纷。
Trump, of course, has been picking fights with individual journalists and entire news outlets for years. At this very moment, there are court fights involving the Associated Press, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and Disney, which owns ABC News and a number of local ABC affiliates.
值得注意的是，平日里彼此竞争的各大新闻机构此次罕见地团结一致。《哥伦比亚新闻评论》称这是“白宫记者团展现出的令人振奋的团结之举”。
So far, there’s been a rare display of support among news organizations that are normally each other’s competition. Columbia Journalism Review called it “a striking and heartening show of solidarity from the White House Press Corps”.
上个月，这三家媒体被逐出白宫后，其他随行记者团成员决定不再安排CNN接替其位置，导致相关报道一度中断。
When the three outlets were kicked out of the White House last month, the other networks in the press pool decided not to replace CNN in the rotation, thus suspending coverage for a time.
《纽约时报》的彼得·贝克指出，在他30年的白宫报道生涯中，这是第一次出现“总统的日常公务活动及出行没有任何电视网络镜头记录”的情况。
Peter Baker of the New York Times noted that for the first time in his 30 years covering the White House, “the president will not have a network TV camera covering his everyday official actions and travels”.
此外，约有50家媒体机构也通过提交法庭之友意见书的方式，支持那三家遭到针对的媒体的诉讼行动。
What’s more, about 50 media organizations backed up the lawsuit by the three who had been singled out by filing an amicus brief.
很难理解报道减少以及这种持续不断的冲突究竟如何对特朗普有利，但显然他有着自己的算盘。
It’s hard to understand exactly how less coverage and this constant squabbling benefits Trump, but apparently, he is making a different calculation.
他的反媒体行径总能引发大量关注，而这正是他赖以生存的“养分”。至于这些关注大多带有负面性质，对他而言似乎并不重要。
His anti-press actions get a lot of attention, which is the very oxygen he requires to breathe. It doesn’t matter that much of the attention is negative.
与此同时，他正不断做出愈发离谱的言行。本周在一场集会上，他声称对伊朗发动战争是为了保护全世界。特朗普似乎暗示，一旦伊朗拥有核武器，便有能力摧毁洛杉矶和圣迭戈。这一言论促使加利福尼亚州民主党州长加文·纽森称这位总统“精神错乱且极其危险”。
Meanwhile, he has entered a phase of saying and doing ever more outrageous things, like his statement this week at a rally that his war in Iran was necessary to protect the world. Trump appeared to suggest that Iran could “take out” Los Angeles and San Diego if it develops a nuclear weapon which prompted California’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, to call the president “deranged and dangerous”.
如今，中期选举仅剩几周时间，而特朗普的支持率持续低迷，他身上流露出一种绝望的情绪。
Trump exudes a sense of desperation these days, with the midterm elections only weeks away and his approval ratings under water.
对媒体发难对他而言近乎一种本能反应——每当现实情况不合他的心意时，他就会这么做。
His war against the press is something of a reflex for him – it’s what comes naturally, especially when he doesn’t like the shape of reality.
如今媒体界展现出前所未有的团结，这令人欣慰。要知道，过去面对这位总统的屡屡辱骂，媒体界往往选择顺从，甚至以宴请来讨好他。在接下来的数周乃至数月里，团结一致将是必然选择。
The press corps’ newfound solidarity is encouraging. It’s been a long time coming from a group that, in the past, has responded to this president’s constant abuse with deference and dinner invitations. Standing together will be a necessity in the weeks and months ahead.
玛格丽特·沙利文是《卫报》美国版专栏作家，主要撰写有关媒体、政治与文化的内容。
Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture