随着中期选举临近，特朗普总统在全国各地奔波造势，除惯常的白宫活动外，本周他在途中与记者发生了几次针锋相对的交锋。他骂一名记者是“蠢货”，另一名是“愚蠢的人”，第三名是“病态的人”。这种愤怒的辱骂发生在白宫与媒体关系紧张不断升级之际。
As President Donald Trump barnstorms the country ahead of the midterms, on top of his usual White House events this week, he’s had some pointed exchanges with journalists in his path. He called one reporter a “dummy,” another “a stupid person” and a third “a sick person.”The angry name-calling comes as tensions between the White House and the media have ratcheted up.
本周，白宫威胁审查《政治报》（Politico）的采访权，要求其撤回报道；在椭圆形办公室发生激烈争执后，阻止《独立报》（The Independent）记者加入总统随行采访团；并拒绝排除将整个白宫记者团驱逐出大楼的可能性。联邦通信委员会（FCC）主席警告广播公司，播放“虚假民调”可能使其违反执照义务。
The White House this week demanded a retraction from Politico under threat of reviewing the publication’s access, blocked a reporter with The Independent from joining the president’s travel pool after a heated exchange in the Oval Office and declined to rule out evicting the press corps from the building altogether. The FCC’s chair warned broadcasters that airing “Fake Polls” could put them crosswise with their licensing obligations.
白宫法律顾问威尔·沙夫周一致信《政治报》全球主编乔纳森·格林伯格，要求在48小时内撤回并删除三篇关于幕僚长苏西·怀尔斯的文章，并警告可能审查《政治报》的白宫采访权。这与该新闻机构与白宫正在进行的诉讼同时发生。《政治报》、CNN和MS NOW的硬通行证于9月被吊销，后于10月13日因禁令恢复，该禁令目前正处于上诉中。
White House counsel Will Scharf sent a letter to Politico’s global editor-in-chief, Jonathan Greenberger, on Monday demanding the retraction and removal of three articles about chief of staff Susie Wiles within 48 hours and warning of a potential review of Politico’s White House access. It coincided with ongoing litigation between the news organization and the White House. Politico, CNN and MS NOW had their hard passes revoked in September, which were reinstated via an Oct. 13 injunction that’s under appeal. (The Washington Sun has signed onto an amicus brief filed in this case in support of the news outlets.)
（《华盛顿太阳报》已签署支持这些新闻机构的法庭之友简报。）据Axios首发，沙夫指责该媒体发布“明显虚假且诽谤性的文章，显然旨在制造功能失调和内斗的叙事”。被针对的文章包括两篇《Playbook》栏目稿件，涉及可能要求替换怀尔斯的呼声及白宫随后的反应，还有一篇10月16日的文章，内容关于怀尔斯在安排前新闻秘书凯蒂·扎卡里亚接受福克斯新闻主播肖恩·汉尼蒂专访中所扮演的角色。
As Axios first reported, Scharf accused the outlet of publishing “demonstrably false and defamatory articles in an apparent effort to manufacture a narrative of dysfunction and infighting.”The targeted pieces included two Playbook items concerning potential calls to replace Wiles and a subsequent White House reaction, alongside an Oct. 16 article about Wiles’ role in arranging former press secretary Katie Zacharia’s Fox News interview with Sean Hannity.
《政客》于周三晚间发布了威尔斯-扎卡里亚事件报道的新版本。文章顶部的更正说明称，此前版本（包括其标题）“错误描述了”威尔斯所扮演的角色，且《政客》的“后续报道显示她并未在安排该采访中发挥直接作用”。该媒体将同样的表述附在周四的《Playbook》以及X平台上替换早前帖子的新帖之后。
Politico published a new version of the Wiles–Zacharia story on Wednesday evening. The correction at the top of the article said the previous version, including its headline, “mischaracterized the role” Wiles played and Politico’s “follow-up reporting indicates she did not play a direct role in setting up the interview.”The outlet appended the same language to Thursday’s Playbook and to a post on X replacing an earlier one.
另外两篇报道则未作改动。据《华盛顿太阳报》查阅的一封日期为周二、收件人为沙夫的信件，律师小西奥多·J·布特鲁斯在信中写道，《政客》“断然拒绝这些不实指控”，并已重新审查全部三篇文章，随后得出结论认为其中一篇需要更正。布特鲁斯写道，这一要求的时机和内容“进一步证实了”九月禁令背后“非法的报复动机和观点歧视动机”。
It left the other two items alone. In a letter to Scharf dated Tuesday and reviewed by The Washington Sun, attorney Theodore J. Boutrous Jr. wrote that Politico “categorically rejects the false accusations” and had reexamined all three articles before concluding one warranted correction. The timing and substance of the demand, Boutrous wrote, “further confirms the unlawful retaliatory and viewpoint discriminatory motives” behind the September ban.
白宫不为所动。发言人丹妮尔·阿尔瓦雷斯表示：“《政客》明知故犯地刊登谎言，应该向其不断减少的读者道歉。事实无可争辩：幕僚长与预订或授权任何采访毫无关系。”一名白宫官员未回应《太阳报》关于此次审查将涉及哪些内容、或是否可能导致采访资格或记者团安排变化的提问。
The White House was unmoved. “Politico should apologize to its dwindling readership for knowingly publishing lies,” spokesperson Danielle Alvarez said. “The facts are indisputable: the Chief of Staff had absolutely nothing to do with booking or authorizing any interview.”A White House official did not respond to The Sun’s question about what the review would involve, or whether it could entail credential or pool changes.
周二在椭圆形办公室举行的一场有特朗普和副总统JD·万斯参加的活动上，《独立报》白宫记者安德鲁·范伯格提问：既然1863年的一项法规已经规定向举报人支付政府追回款项的一部分，为什么还会有人使用新的政府欺诈举报热线？
During an Oval Office event Tuesday that included Trump and Vice President JD Vance, Andrew Feinberg, The Independent’s White House correspondent, asked why anyone would use the new government fraud tip line when an 1863 statute already pays whistleblowers a share of what the government recovers.
万斯称该问题不诚实，表示该倡议涵盖范围不止《虚假申报法》。特朗普询问费恩伯格属于哪家媒体。随后，特朗普指着他说：“我不知道你到底是谁，但你最好小心点。”当费恩伯格稍后试图提问时，特朗普问道：“你怎么了，你是病人吗？”并补充说，“我其实觉得你有问题。”万斯随后在X上称费恩伯格为“白痴”，费恩伯格在另一条帖子中作出回应。他第二天发表了一篇文章，详述了该事件。
Vance called the question dishonest, saying the initiative covers more than the False Claims Act. Trump asked Feinberg who he was with. Later, Trump pointed at him: “I don’t know who the hell you are, but you better be careful.”When Feinberg tried to ask a question later, Trump asked, “What’s wrong with you, are you a sick person?” and added, “I actually think there’s something wrong with you.”Vance later called Feinberg an “imbecile” on X, which Feinberg responded to in a separate post. He published an article the next day detailing the event.
“只因做我的工作，”费恩伯格写道，“我成了特朗普及其团队的攻击目标。”据《独立报》报道，周三晚间，白宫新闻办给费恩伯格发邮件称，他将“不再担任”特朗普爱荷华集会的文字记者团代表。费恩伯格向《华盛顿太阳报》证实了被移除一事，但拒绝进一步置评。
“For doing my job,” Feinberg wrote, “I became the target of Trump and his team.”On Wednesday evening, the White House Press Office emailed Feinberg to say he would “not be the print pooler” for Trump’s Iowa rally, The Independent reported. Feinberg confirmed the removal to The Washington Sun but declined to comment further.
“白宫记者协会强烈反对仅因总统不喜欢记者的提问就限制其采访报道的决定。这是报复，”白宫记者协会主席杰奎·海因里希周三在X上表示。“美国公众享有独立新闻媒体的权利，取决于记者能否在不担心挑战总统会导致失去采访机会的情况下开展工作。”
“The White House Correspondents’ Association strongly objects to the decision to restrict a journalist’s coverage simply because the president didn’t care for their questioning. That is retaliation,” WHCA President Jacqui Heinrich said Wednesday on X. “The American public’s right to an independent press depends on reporters being able to do their jobs without fear that challenging the president will cut off their access.”
当被问及是谁做出该决定以及该决定是否超出这一单次任务时，一名白宫官员未正面回应费恩伯格的情况，仅表示“任何个人和任何记者都没有宪法赋予的权利进入总统椭圆办公室、空军一号或其他敏感和私密设施。”特朗普周三启程前往南卡罗来纳州集会时，将不满发泄在另外两名记者身上。CNN的凯特兰·柯林斯就他决定豁免自己上个月签署成为法律的对俄制裁，以及美国公民斯蒂芬·哈伯德的获释是否属于交换，向他追问。
Asked who made the decision and whether it extends beyond the single assignment, a White House official did not address Feinberg specifically, saying that “no person and no journalist has a constitutional right to access the President’s Oval Office, Air Force One, or other sensitive and private facilities.”As Trump departed for a South Carolina rally on Wednesday, he turned his frustration on two more reporters. CNN’s Kaitlan Collins pressed him on his decision to waive Russia sanctions he had signed into law last month and on whether the release of U.S. citizen Stephen Hubbard amounted to an exchange.
“你不知道自己在说什么，”他对她说。“你是个低智商的人，你是个蠢货，而且你为CNN工作。”
“You don’t know what you’re talking about,” he told her. “You’re a low-IQ person, you’re a dummy, and you work for CNN.”
几分钟后，ABC新闻的凯伦·特拉弗斯向他提出了类似的问题。他反问道：“你是个愚蠢的人吗？你为谁工作？”关于ABC新闻，他说：“顺便说一句，你们网络是所有网络中最差的。”
Minutes later, ABC News’ Karen Travers asked a version of the same question to him. He responded, “Are you a stupid person? Who do you work for?”Regarding ABC News, he said: “And by the way, your network is the worst of all.”
CNN发言人为科林斯辩护，称她是“一位杰出的记者，每天从白宫和现场进行报道，具有真正的深度和韧劲。”
A CNN spokesperson defended Collins, calling her “an exceptional journalist, reporting every day from the White House and the field with real depth and tenacity.”
该网络正在提出更广泛的投诉。根据《太阳报》审阅的一份10月19日致司法部的信件，布特鲁斯——除Politico外还代表CNN——写道，白宫似乎正在实施“一项新的未明文规定的政策”，禁止CNN进入椭圆形办公室和“空军一号”，并要求在周四下午5点前以书面形式确认将停止该做法。否则，CNN“将被迫寻求额外的司法救济”。
The network is pressing a broader complaint. In an Oct. 19 letter to the Justice Department reviewed by The Sun, Boutrous — who represents CNN in addition to Politico — wrote that the White House appears to be implementing “a new unstated policy” barring CNN from the Oval Office and Air Force One and demanded written confirmation by 5 p.m. Thursday that it would stop. Absent that, CNN “will be forced to pursue additional judicial relief.”
自9月18日以来，CNN在原定应获得一个座位的情况下，被拒绝登上“空军一号”。信中称，这些事件——至少四次——包括总统10月16日对佐治亚州和佛罗里达州的行程，该行程发生在禁令颁布三天后。布特鲁斯写道，白宫未提供任何书面通知或解释，也从未直接告知CNN其被排除在外。
CNN has been denied a seat on Air Force One when scheduled to have one since Sept. 18. Those incidents — at least four, per the letter — included the president’s Oct. 16 trip to Georgia and Florida, which came three days after the injunction. The White House has provided no written notice or explanation, Boutrous wrote, and has never directly told CNN it is excluded.
信件辩称，这些排除至关重要，因为总统现在在何处接受提问。他在2025年两次出现在白宫简报室，回答了约51个问题，而在椭圆形办公室则回答了近2000个。信中称，在本任期内他回答的约5000个问题中，97%是在椭圆形办公室或“空军一号”周边提出的。
The letter argues the exclusions matter because of where the president now takes questions. He appeared in the White House briefing room twice in 2025, taking about 51 questions, while fielding nearly 2,000 in the Oval Office. Of the roughly 5,000 questions he has answered this term, 97% came there or around Air Force One, the letter said.
在被问及泳池排除事项时，一位白宫官员表示，特朗普“是史上最透明的总统，这从他本周举行的众多公开新闻发布会和长时间的白宫活动中可见”。还有那座建筑本身。《纽约时报》周二报道，特朗普正日益推动助理将记者移出詹姆斯·S·布雷迪新闻发布室，并考虑将其改为室内游泳池。（该房间位于1933年为富兰克林·D·罗斯福建造的泳池之上，1970年理查德·尼克松曾对其进行改造。）
Asked about the pool exclusions, a White House official said that Trump “is by far the most transparent President in history, as demonstrated by his many open press gaggles and long White House events this week.”Then there is the building itself. The New York Times reported Tuesday that Trump is increasingly pushing aides to move reporters out of the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room and has thought about replacing it with an indoor swimming pool. (The room sits atop a pool built for Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, which Richard Nixon covered in 1970.)
当被问及是否正在考虑搬迁以及记者是否仍能保持对西翼的同等进入权时，白宫通讯主任史蒂文·张并未对《纽约时报》的报道提出异议。
Asked whether a relocation is under consideration and whether journalists would retain the same access to the West Wing, White House communications director Steven Cheung did not dispute the Times’ account.
他在致《太阳报》的声明中说：“美国对假新闻媒体的怀疑是有道理的，因为他们基于谎言和根本不掌握任何信息的来源捏造报道。所有选项仍在桌面上，我们将在适当时机作出宣布。”
“America is rightly distrustful of the Fake News Media because they fabricate stories based off lies and sources who are not even privy to any type of information,” he said in a statement to The Sun. “All options remain on the table and we will make an announcement when appropriate.”
联邦通信委员会主席布伦丹·卡尔周三也发出警告，他在X平台上发布帖子称：“根据联邦许可证的条款，广播公司被禁止进行新闻扭曲或宣传广播骗局”，并将此称为“假民调和压制民调”。该帖子未点名任何媒体，但紧随瓦奇伍德民调公司周二承认其几乎所有的中期选举调查都是捏造的。《纽约时报》随后在当晚将其中15项调查从其追踪页面中移除。
Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr added a warning of his own Wednesday, saying in a post on X that “broadcasters are prohibited by the terms of their federal licenses from engaging in News Distortion or promoting Broadcast Hoaxes” amid what he called “Fake Polls and Suppression Polls.”The post did not name any outlets, but followed Wedgewood Polls’ acknowledgement Tuesday that nearly all of its midterm surveys were fabricated. The New York Times pulled 15 of them from its tracking pages later that night.
联邦通信委员会唯一的民主党委员安娜·戈麦斯表示反对。她在布特鲁斯的信中写道：“对新闻扭曲或骗局的FCC规则不适用于善意报道此类数据的电台。”她还提到CNN的情况。一天后，白宫发布声明，表明其底线：“假新闻无权在总统椭圆形办公室中占据一席之地。”
Anna Gomez, the FCC’s only Democratic commissioner, objected. “FCC rules on news distortion or hoaxes do not apply to a station that reports this data in good faith,” she wrote on Boutrous’ letter about CNN says that a day after the injunction, the White House issued a statement indicative of its bottom line: “The Fake News has no place demanding a spot in the President’s Oval Office.”