还记得凯蒂·扎卡里亚吗？她担任唐纳德·特朗普的白宫新闻秘书约五天，在近两周前，她尴尬的任期突然结束。自从失去一份总统本不该给她的工作以来，扎卡里亚公开露面寥寥无几，但本周，她向《加利福尼亚邮报》讲述了她极不寻常的经历，指出了诸如准备不足等问题。文章中写道：为她在新闻发布室表现糟糕进行辩护时，扎卡里亚声称，在她首场新闻发布会的当天早上，她“只获得了几小时的实际简报材料”。
Remember Katie Zacharia? She served as Donald Trump’s White House press secretary for about five days before her embarrassing tenure ended abruptly nearly two weeks ago Zacharia has said very little in public since losing a job the president never should have given her, but this week, she spoke to the California Post about her extraordinarily unusual experience, pointing to, among other things, her lack of preparation. From the article: Defending her rocky press room performance, Zacharia claimed she was given “only a few hours of actual briefing material” on the morning of her first press conference.
她说，前新闻秘书凯莉·麦肯纳尼、莎拉·哈克比·桑德斯、阿里·弗莱舍尔和肖恩·斯派塞都曾联系她，对她所谓的准备“跑道”不足表示同情。
She said former press secretaries, including Kayleigh McEnany, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Ari Fleischer, and Sean Spicer, reached out to express sympathy over what she called an inadequate “runway” to prepare.
从某种程度上说，这有助于捕捉扎卡里亚的故事最初之所以引人注目的原因。
In some ways, this helps capture what made the Zacharia story so notable in the first place.
诚然，总统选择一位不合格且信奉阴谋论的评论员担任其首席发言人，这件事本身（现在依然）引人注目。但表象之下，特朗普雇佣和解雇扎卡里亚的方式，反映出白宫极其混乱，难以完成基本任务。
To be sure, it was (and is) notable that the president chose an unqualified and conspiratorial commentator to serve as his chief spokesperson. But just below the surface, the way in which Trump hired and fired Zacharia reflects a spectacularly dysfunctional White House that struggles to complete basic tasks.
总统及其团队在没有任何有意义的审查程序下，在全国大选前三周，挑选了一位阴谋论者作为白宫的公众形象代言人，随后又在没有任何有意义的准备下，将她推入一个艰难的角色。失败既是可预见的，也是不可避免的。
The president and his team, without any meaningful vetting process, chose a conspiracy theorist to be the public face of the White House, three weeks before nationwide elections, and then threw her into a difficult role without any meaningful preparation. Failure was both predictable and unavoidable.
但一个称职的西翼本应提前知晓这一点，并采取措施避免一场令人羞辱的灾难。
But a competent West Wing would have known that in advance and taken steps to avoid a humiliating disaster.
“随着中期选举临近，这台机器已开始冒烟熄火，”《大西洋月刊》的乔恩·查特在扎卡里亚被解职后写道。“短短几天内，国防部长皮特·赫格塞斯宣布将直播一场公开处决，却被特朗普推翻；政府解雇了驻希腊大使金伯利·吉尔福伊尔，理由是她从事的腐败行为过于公开，甚至让历史上最腐败的政府都感到尴尬。……在这场连环车祸般的混乱中，扎卡里亚短暂地成了政府结结巴巴的门面。” 她的失败让特朗普团队感到意外，这充分说明了其能力——或缺乏能力。
“As the midterm elections draw near, the machine has begun to sputter,”The Atlantic’s Jon Chait noted after Zacharia’s ouster. “In the span of days, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced he would livestream a public execution, only for Trump to overrule him, [and] the administration fired Kimberly Guilfoyle, its ambassador to Greece, for engaging in corruption so overt, it embarrassed even the most corrupt administration in history. … In the midst of this multicar pileup, Zacharia briefly stepped forward as the administration’s stammering face.”The fact that her failure came as a surprise to Team Trump speaks volumes about its competence — or lack thereof.
至于这位前新闻秘书的前途，特朗普两周前对记者表示，他预计她将继续在政府任职，“也许是一种更愉快的形式”，尽管这未必完全属实。
As for the former press secretary’s future, Trump told reporters two weeks ago that he expects her to continue to serve in his administration, “maybe a more pleasant form,” though that may not be altogether true.
“扎卡里亚透露新职位的宣布即将到来，誓言将从行政部门之外继续做一名直言不讳的特朗普盟友，”《加利福尼亚邮报》的文章补充道。
“Zacharia teased that new career announcements are imminent, vowing to remain an outspoken Trump ally from outside the executive branch,” the California Post’s article added.
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