周三，唐纳德·特朗普总统再次重申了自己颇具争议的言论：他认为如果伊朗获得核武器，就有可能对美国发动攻击。在圣安东尼奥的一场竞选集会上，他宣称：“就让他们向圣地亚哥或洛杉矶发射导弹吧。”显然，特朗普试图打造一种极具挑衅意味的新口号。尽管事后他试图为这些言论作出解释，但不难理解为何这种说法对他有吸引力：他乐于利用语言的模糊性来表达那些出格且恶毒的观点。
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump doubled down on a controversial statement about what he believed Iran could do to the U.S. should it obtain a nuclear weapon, saying at a campaign rally in San Antonio, “Let them hit a missile into San Diego or Los Angeles.”It appears that Trump is trying to coin a provocative new refrain. And even though he’s subsequently strained to contextualize the remarks, it’s easy to see why it appeals to him: He delights in using linguistic ambiguity to say transgressive and vicious things.
为了充分体会这种效果，不妨看看特朗普周二在内布拉斯加州的集会上首次使用这一说法时的情景。当时他正在谈论伊朗战争以及油价问题：“这场战争其实完全是人为制造的。目前油价确实略高，但为确保世界安全、确保我国安全，这点代价微不足道。他们完全可以摧毁一座城市——就让他们摧毁洛杉矶吧，让他们摧毁圣地亚哥好了。[台下观众欢呼] 这点代价实在算不了什么，而且战争很快就会结束，实际上差不多已经结束了。”
To get the full effect, watch Trump’s first deployment of the phrase rally in Nebraska on Tuesday, as he’s talking about the war in Iran and the price of gas: “With the war, it’s just artificial. It’s a little bit high. It’s a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe. They can take out a city. Let them take, let them take out Los Angeles; let them take out San Diego. [Cheers from the audience.] That’s — this is a very small price to pay, and it’s going to be over with very soon. It’s essentially almost over with.”
民主党人对此深感震惊。加利福尼亚州州长加文·纽森在社交媒体上写道：“唐纳德·特朗普现在居然声称我们的外国敌人应当‘摧毁’洛杉矶和圣地亚哥。此人精神错乱且极其危险。”不过白宫则为特朗普的言论辩护称，那只是一种假设性情景——即如果特朗普没有介入中东事务，这种情况或许就会发生。“他显然是在说明：如果未能阻止伊朗拥有核武器，美国的城市就会面临威胁，”白宫通讯主任史蒂文·张解释道。
Democrats were aghast, with California Gov. Gavin Newsom saying on“Donald Trump is now saying our foreign enemies should ‘take out’ Los Angeles and San Diego. He is deranged and dangerous.”But the White House defended Trump’s remarks as a hypothetical scenario that might have transpired had Trump not intervened in the Middle East. “He was clearly stating U.S. cities would have been threatened if a nuclear Iran hadn’t been stopped,” White House communications director Steven Cheung said.
（暂且不论并无任何证据表明伊朗当时正在研发核武器。）一些事实核查机构似乎也被白宫的这套说辞说服了。特朗普如此全力为自己的言论辩护，实属极为罕见的情况。
(Never mind that there is no evidence that Iran was developing a nuclear weapon.) Some fact-checkers were convinced by the White House’s cleanup efforts. It’s extremely rare for Trump to offer such a full-throated defense of his own rhetoric.
事实上，特朗普通过控制语速、语调以及强调重点来暗示多重含义。诚然，他当时在谈论战争，而他话语的逻辑推论就是：如果假设伊朗确实具备核能力或拥有射程足以打击美国城市的弹道导弹，那么这些城市就会面临威胁。
The reality is that Trump used pacing, tone and emphasis to hint at multiple meanings. It’s true that he was discussing the war and that a logical implication of what he was saying was that American cities under threat — again, assuming we grant the false premise that Iran was homing in on such a nuclear capacity or possesses ballistic missiles capable of such range.
与此同时，特朗普以坚定的语气提出这一假设性情景，而且他使用的“任由”一词更让这种情景听起来似乎是可以被接受甚至是可取的。这很可能就是为何MAGA阵营的听众开始欢呼的原因。他特意挑选了两座风景优美且倾向于自由派的城市，而这两座城市其实并不比其他城市更容易遭受攻击，这样的选择显然并非偶然。特朗普的语气与节奏或许在向听众传递这样一个信号：一旦发生袭击，他愿意放弃这些城市；同时也允许听众短暂地幻想一下民主党执政的城市被摧毁的场景。
At the same time, the way Trump firmly proposes this hypothetical scenario — and his use of the word “let” makes it sound almost as if such a scenario could be permissible or even desirable — is likely why the MAGA audience starts to cheer. Choosing two scenic, left-leaning cities, which are not particularly vulnerable to attacks compared to other cities, does not seem random. Trump’s tone and cadence may signal to his audience that those cities are ones he would be willing to concede in the event of an attack, while also giving them permission to briefly fantasize about the destruction of Democrat-led cities.
周三在德克萨斯州，特朗普再次提及这一话题：“想看看惨状吗？想看看麻烦吗？前几天我就说过，‘任由伊朗的导弹击中圣地亚哥或洛杉矶吧。’想看看一场人间惨剧吗？……想看到一些糟糕的事情发生，想看到国家陷入混乱吗？我们绝不会让这种事发生。”他说道。
In Texas on Wednesday, Trump returned to the idea“You want to see trauma? You want to see problems? And I said it the other day, ‘Let them hit a missile into San Diego or Los Angeles on the way. Let them hit’ — You want to see a horror show? …You want to see some bad things happen, you want to see a country that would be in free fall? We’re not going to let that happen,” he said.
洛杉矶居民对特朗普提议“任由伊朗摧毁城市”的反应是：“我感到震惊！”2026年10月6日。这一次，欢呼声少了许多，特朗普也更明确地强调那些遭受轰炸的城市只是假设性情景，并坚称自己绝不会允许这种事发生。不过，反复提及这类噩梦般的场景，并引导听众去想象一座被摧毁的美国城市会是何种模样，这种做法显然十分怪异且令人不安。倘若特朗普漫不经心地提及让杰克逊维尔或俄克拉荷马城遭毁灭，恐怕也很难获得MAGA阵营听众的认同。
L.A. residents react to Trump suggesting letting Iran ‘take out’ city: ‘I’m appalled!’October 6, 2026 This time there are fewer cheers and Trump more explicitly brackets off the idea of bombarded cities as a hypothetical by saying he will not allow it to happen. But it is plainly odd and more than a little bit spooky to repeatedly invoke such nightmare scenarios, inviting the audience to wonder what a “horror show” of a decimated American city would look like. And it’s hard to imagine receptivity from a MAGA audience if Trump had cavalierly invoked the annihilation of Jacksonville or Oklahoma City.
周四，面对铺天盖地的反对声浪，特朗普仍为自己在Truth Social上发表的言论辩护。他说道：“我所说的不过是：为了防止伊朗拥有核武器，暂时提高汽油价格也算值得付出的代价。要是你想知道代价会有多大，不妨想象一下：如果伊朗轰炸了圣地亚哥或洛杉矶，后果会怎样？”特朗普极少如此理直气壮地为自己的言论辩护，由此看来他似乎也意识到了这些言论为何会惹怒众人。
Amid a roar of pushback Thursday, Trump defended his new bit on Truth Social saying, “What I was talking about was that a temporary increase in the price of Gasoline is a small price to pay for Iran not having a Nuclear Weapon and, if you want to see a big price, can you imagine what it would be like if they bombed San Diego and/or Los Angeles?”It’s extremely rare for Trump to offer such a full-throated defense of his own rhetoric, so he seems to have intuited why this rubbed so many people the wrong way.
不过，倘若特朗普没有将救灾资金及社会服务经费政治化的前科——即他总是把红州的民众利益置于蓝州民众之上——我们或许还能对他抱以善意的理解。
But it would be easier to give Trump the benefit of the doubt if he did not have a history of politicizing disaster aid funding social services in ways that indicate he prioritizes the lives and well-being of people from red states over blue states.
当然，倘若特朗普的言辞没有变得愈发晦涩难懂、逻辑混乱，以至于人们很难弄懂他的真实意图（他总是打断自己的思路），或许这一切都不会引发争议。
And, of course, it’s possible that none of this would be debated if we weren’t subjected to Trump’s increasingly elliptical and incoherent speech patterns which make it difficult to discern what he means as he constantly interrupts his own train of thought.
其实我们大可不必担心这些城市会遭受伊朗的攻击——它们绝对安全，这并非归功于特朗普那些愚蠢的战争言论。但人们不禁会想：出于漠不关心或恶意心态，特朗普是否会认真对待那些他并不在乎的城市的民众所面临的真正国家安全威胁呢？
One need not worry about whether these cities are safe from an attack from Iran — they are, and not due to Trump’s foolish war. But one can’t help but wonder if Trump would be willing to take legitimate national security threats to people in cities he doesn’t care for seriously, whether due to indifference or spite. The post There’s a cunning strategy behind Trump’s ‘let them take out’ LA statements MS NOW