在竞选活动中，真正能让唐纳德·特朗普兴奋起来的话题只有一个，当然就是他自己——这个话题同样能让他在白宫乃至任何场合都兴高采烈。
Only one subject truly animates Donald Trump on the campaign trail, and it is, of course, the same one that delights and fascinates him in the Oval Office and everywhere else: himself.
我听了特朗普在六场集会上的演讲，发现一个明显的现象：这位总统似乎从这些活动中得不到多少快乐。2018年竞选时，他的眼中仍闪烁着对“人民之敌”的憎恨，每当福克斯新闻的几位主持人出现在台上时，他更是喜不自胜，毕竟这些人的节目占据了他在白宫的大部分工作时间。那时的集会对他而言就是最开心的地方。
One thing that struck me, listening to Trump at each of his six stops, was how little joy the President seemed to take from the exercise. Back in the 2018 campaign, his eyes still lit up with hatred for the enemies of the people, and he exuded delight to be joined onstage by some of the Fox News personalities whose shows consumed so much of his White House workday. Rallies were always his happy place.
当时他也清楚，自己的政党很可能在中期选举中惨败，可如今的2026年特朗普已不再是个“快乐的斗士”了。他当下的情绪最能体现在周六晚上俄亥俄州演讲时随口说出的威胁之词上，具体内容我也不太确定：“我们要把那玩意儿塞进他们的屁股里，”他信誓旦旦地说道，“明白吗？”
He knew then, just as he knows now, that his party was likely to get thumped in the midterms. But this 2026 Trump is not nearly so much of a happy warrior. His present mood seemed better exemplified by a threat that he casually threw out on Saturday night, in the midst of his Ohio speech, apropos of what I was not entirely sure: “We’re going to shove it up their ass,” he vowed. “O.K.?”