一周前，唐纳德·特朗普在新科学倡议峰会上发表讲话，此次峰会大体平淡无奇，唯一值得一提的是总统在开场时的一番话。“我们难得有了一群智商极高的听众，”他说，“难得如此。真是太好了。”
A week ago, Donald Trump delivered remarks at the Summit on New Science Initiatives, which was largely unremarkable except for one comment the president made toward the beginning of his speech. “We have an extremely high-IQ audience for a change,”he said“For a change. It’s very nice.”
由于特朗普通常只面向自己的支持者发表讲话，这番话出口似乎有些奇怪。尽管如此，两天后，他在田纳西州主持一场竞选集会时又重复了这一说法，对与会者说：“太神奇了。当你站在这里时，感觉就像……充满爱。我可以说最愚蠢的话，你们也会鼓掌。”备注：听到这话后，他的一些支持者确实鼓了掌。
With Trump generally limiting his audiences to his own supporters, this seemed like an odd thing to say aloud. Nevertheless, he kept this going two days later, headlining a campaign rally in Tennessee on Saturday, where he told attendees“It’s amazing. When you stand up here, it’s just like, the love. I could say the stupidest things and you’d clap.”For the record: Upon hearing this, some of his supporters did, in fact, clap.
但这似乎还不够，周三下午，在亚利桑那州，总统似乎再次侮辱了他的追随者。
But in case that weren’t quite enough, on Wednesday afternoon in Arizona, the president appeared to insult his followers yet again. Trump: "It's called a coganative [sic] test.
特朗普说：“这叫认知测试。这是一项非常标准的测试，但非常难。这个听众中很少有人能——一旦过了第一个问题。他们给你看一头狮子、一头熊、一只长颈鹿和一条蛇，然后说，‘哪个是狮子？’拜登无法回答这个问题。”
It's a very standard test, but very tough. There are few people in this audience that can — once you get past the first question. They show you a lion, a bear, a giraffe, and a snake and they say, 'Which one is the lion?'
亚伦·鲁帕尔（@atrupar.com）报道称，作为一段关于特朗普自认为有多聪明的即兴发言的一部分，他向与会者讲述了自己参加认知测试的经历，宣称：“这是一项非常标准的测试，但非常难。”
Biden was unable to answer that" Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) As part of an unscripted riff on how smart Trump thinks he is, he told attendees about his experiences taking cognitive tests, declaring, “It’s a very standard test, but very tough.”
他很快补充说：“这个听众中很少有人能……”但他在说完句子前打断了自己。总统接着说，要回答后面的问题，“你必须非常、非常聪明。”
He quickly added“There are few people in this audience that can …,” though he interrupted himself before finishing the sentence. The president proceeded to say that to answer the questions toward the end, “you have to be very, very smart.”
特朗普继续吹嘘说，医生们对他如此聪明印象深刻，以至于他们说：“天哪，没人能做到。”但据总统说，他还是做到了，因为他是“个他妈的天才。”所以，有两点。
Trump went on to boast that doctors were so impressed with his aptitude that they said, “Holy s–––, nobody can do that.”But according to the president, he did it anyway, because he’s “a freaking genius.”So, two things.
首先，特朗普长期以来一直难以理解这些测试的意义。尽管他反复声称相反，但这些测试并不是用于衡量智力的考试。相反，这些测试用于识别痴呆、精神衰退和神经退行性疾病。在这些测试中表现良好的人只是达到了一个低标准，并不一定是“天才级人物”。他觉得这些测试“非常艰难”这一事实本身就是一个令人不安的信号，尤其是在他精神健康状况受到更广泛关注的背景下。
First, Trump has long struggled to understand the point of these tests. They’re not exams used to measure intelligence, despite his incessant claims to the contrary Rather, these tests are used to identify dementia, mental deterioration and neurodegenerative diseases. Those who do well are clearing a low bar, and are not necessarily “freaking geniuses.”The fact that he found them “very tough” is itself an unsettling sign, especially amid broader concerns about his mental fitness.
其次，特朗普的支持者很可能会因他暗示“很少有人”在他的集会观众中能像他在这项认知测试中那样表现良好而感到强烈不满。
Second, Trump’s supporters should probably take great offense by his suggestion that “few people” in his rally audience could fare as well as he did on this cognitive test.
“如果你看这个测试，几乎看不出怎么可能得不到满分[30分，满分30分]，”《华盛顿邮报》在2018年的一篇分析中这样解释道，并补充说：“是的，特朗普以优异成绩通过了测试，就像任何具有正常认知功能的成年人可能做到的那样。”综合来看，很难不产生这样的印象：这位总统并不确切地高看他的支持者。
“If you look at the test, it’s pretty hard to see how you could not score a 30 [out of 30],”a Washington Post analysis explained in 2018, adding, “Yes, Trump passed with flying colors, as any adult with normal cognitive function probably would.”Taken together, it’s hard not to get the impression that the president doesn’t exactly hold his supporters in high regard.
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