作为对其对欧洲和北约联盟敌意的长篇大论的一部分，唐纳德·特朗普确实对传统美国盟友表达了一定程度的感激，感激的是一项仅存在于总统想象中的进展。
As part of an extended riff on his animosity toward Europe and the NATO alliance, Donald Trump did express a degree of gratitude toward the traditional U.S. allies about a development that only happened in the president’s imagination.
特朗普称北约“够意思把格陵兰岛给了我们。我们得到了格陵兰岛。”
Trump says NATO was "nice enough to give us Greenland. We got Greenland."
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 特朗普断言，北约成员国“够意思把格陵兰岛给了我们，尽管说了那么多坏话。”
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) NATO members, the president asserted“were nice enough to give us Greenland, despite all the bad talk.”
“‘哦，他得不到手，’”特朗普补充道，嘲笑他的批评者。“我们得到了；我们得到了格陵兰岛。” 不，我们没有得到。
“‘Oh, he’s not going to get it,’” Trump added, mocking his critics. “We got it; we got Greenland.”No, we didn’t.
诚然，这种言论是错误的，但并不陌生。在上周亚利桑那州的一次竞选活动中，总统还宣称格陵兰岛“归丹麦所有”，但此后已被加入“我们漂亮的盘子里”。当天早些时候，特朗普在其社交媒体平台发帖，提到“我们新的、漂亮的格陵兰岛”，暗示美国拥有这个北极岛屿的所有权。
To be sure, the rhetoric was wrong but familiar. At a campaign event in Arizona last week, the president also said that Greenland “was owned by Denmark,” but it has since been added “to our beautiful plate.”Earlier in the day, Trump posted an item to his social media platform in which he referred to “our new and beautiful Greenland,” suggesting U.S. ownership of the Arctic island.
五天前，总统在纽约主持了一场集会，他向与会者吹嘘：“顺便说一句，我也搞到了格陵兰岛。我希望你们为此感到高兴。”
Five days earlier, the president headlined a rally in New York, where he boasted to attendees, “I also, by the way, got Greenland. I hope you’re happy about that.”
我无法确切断定特朗普是故意误导公众，还是真心对一件连他自己本应都能理解的事情感到困惑。但鉴于人们可能会倾向于相信总统，大概有必要强调：美国并没有“搞到”格陵兰岛；它不是“我们的”；它从未被加入过我们的“盘子里”。正如《纽约时报》9月所报道的：周二，他签署了一份文件，为扩大美国在该岛的军事存在、开设新基地铺平道路。
I’m not in a position to say with certainty whether Trump is deliberately trying to mislead the public or is genuinely confused about something even he ought to be able to understand. But to the extent that people might be tempted to believe the president, it’s probably worth emphasizing that the United States didn’t “get” Greenland; it’s not “ours”; and at no point was it added to our “plate.”As The New York Times reported in September: On Tuesday, he signed a document that paves the way to expanding the U.S. military presence on the island, opening new bases.
但该文件明确未将任何领土移交给美国。没有人——尤其是管理这片广袤但大多空旷土地的丹麦——想要强调这一点，因为担心特朗普可能会否认他刚刚赞誉为“对欧洲和美国都极为巨大”的协议。对特朗普而言，这是一次重大退让。他在第一任期内首次提出购买格陵兰岛的可能性，从此便未曾放弃这一想法。
But it explicitly stops short of conveying any territory to the United States. And no one — especially Denmark, which governs the vast but mostly empty space — wanted to emphasize that point, for fear that Mr. Trump might renounce the agreement he had just hailed as “tremendous for Europe and for the United States.”For Mr. Trump, it was a major retreat. He first raised the possibility of buying Greenland during his first term and never let go of the idea.
我能理解为何总统觉得这很尴尬。毕竟，他在达成一项仅给予他原本已拥有权利的协议前九个月，曾向美国人做出“100%”的担保，称将获得该岛。国际政策中心副主席、长期核政策专家约瑟夫·西林西翁将该协议描述为一场“彻头彻尾的闹剧”，其目的仅在于“抚慰特朗普不稳定的自尊心”。总统越是兜售关于他虚构的格陵兰岛收购的荒诞言论，就越明显地显示出，在其第二任期最引人注目的外交政策惨败之一之后，他仍在照料他那不稳定的自尊心。
I can appreciate why the president finds this embarrassing. He did, after all, make a“100%” guarantee to Americans that he would acquire the island — nine months before he settled for a deal that gave him what he already had Joseph Cirincione, the vice chair of the Center for International Policy and a longtime expert on nuclear policy, described the deal as a “complete farce” designed to do little more than “soothe Trump’s unstable ego.”The more the president peddles nonsense about his imaginary acquisition of Greenland, the more obvious it becomes that he’s still tending to his unstable ego after one of the more notable foreign policy fiascos of his second term.
《“我们得到了格陵兰岛”：特朗普推销关于北极岛屿所有权的编造说辞》 MS NOW
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