根据唐纳德·特朗普自己的说法，上周末他的团队曾建议他庆祝汽油价格上涨。总统无视了他们的建议。
According to Donald Trump’s version of events, late last week his own team encouraged him to celebrate higher gas prices. The president ignored their advice.
周六晚在佐治亚州的一次竞选集会上，特朗普花了相当长的时间吹嘘石油和天然气公司因价格上涨而“赚得盆满钵满”，因此消费者在为支付账单而苦苦挣扎时，本该为他们在加油站支付更多费用而感到高兴。
At a Saturday night campaign rally in Georgia, Trump spent quite a bit of time bragging that oil and gas companies were “making a fortune” as a result of higher prices, so consumers struggling to pay their bills should be they’re paying more at the pump.
至于那些劝阻他不要发表此类言论的团队成员，总统补充道：“我说，‘我才不在乎。我就要说。我们赚了他妈的一大笔钱。’”《马多博客》经常揭露特朗普试图欺骗公众的事例，但在这种情况下，这位共和党人说到了点子上：大石油公司赚得盆满钵满，这在很大程度上归功于与伊朗战争引发的价格飙升，而这场战争是总统八个月前发起的，但他却不知如何收场。
As for members of his team who encouraged him not to make such comments, the president added, “I said, ‘I don’t give a damn. I’m going to say it. We’re making a freaking fortune.’”MaddowBlog routinely shines a light on instances when Trump tries to deceive the public, but in this case, the Republican had a point: Big Oil making a freaking fortune, thanks in large part to price spikes tied to the war with Iran, which the president started eight months ago but doesn’t know how to end.
《纽约时报》报道：与伊朗的战争对美国石油公司来说非常有利可图，随着人们为汽油、柴油和其他燃料支付高得多的价格，这些公司已赚取了超过1300亿美元的利润。
The New York Times reported: The war with Iran has been very lucrative for American oil companies, which have earned more than $130 billion in profit as people pay much higher prices for gasoline, diesel and other fuel.
这是一个基于50多家大型美国石油天然气公司（其中大多数是生产商或炼油商）在4月至9月六个月内的表现得出的保守估计。这不反映3月（战争的第一个月）或10月赚取的利润。
That is a conservative estimate based on the performance of more than 50 large U.S. oil and gas companies, most of them producers or refiners, in the six months from April through September. It does not reflect profits earned in March, the first month of the war, or in October.
根据《纽约时报》的分析，去年同期，这些能源公司总共少赚了470亿美元。
According to the Times’ analysis, over the same period of time last year, these same energy companies collectively earned $47 billion less.
据他自己承认，特朗普认为这是个大好消息，他告诉公众“我们”正在赚取巨额资金。麻烦在于，“我们”在这个句子里承担了太多的含义。
By his own admission, Trump thinks this is great news, telling the public that “we” are making an enormous amount of money. The trouble is, “we” is doing a lot of work in that sentence.
美国确实在生产大量石油，油价上涨也确实为石油行业带来了巨额利润。但由于从石油行业利润中受益的美国人数量极少，因此面对自身钱包持续受到的冲击，恐怕没有多少人会为此叫好。
It’s true that the U.S. is producing a lot of oil, and it’s also true that higher prices are generating massive oil industry profits. But because the number of Americans who benefit from oil industry profits is very small, few are likely to applaud the ongoing hit to their wallets.
话虽如此，当总统使用“我们”一词时，也有理由认为他其实是在字面意义上这么说。国会联合经济委员会的民主党人本周公布的数据显示，特朗普本人持有石油和天然气股票，这些股票今年为他个人财富增加了多达3580万美元。
That said, when the president uses the word “we,” there’s also reason to believe he’s being rather literal. Congressional Democrats on the Joint Economic Committee released data this week showing that Trump personally owns oil and gas stocks, which have added as much as $35.8 million to his personal wealth this year.
同一份联合经济委员会报告还补充道：“2026年，他购买的石油和天然气股票中，超过94%是在特朗普发动对伊朗战争之后买入的。总体而言，从2026年3月到2026年8月，特朗普购买了价值高达1750万美元的石油和天然气股票。”下次总统宣称“我们正在赚取惊人的财富”时，请记住这些细节。
That same Joint Economic Committee report added, “In 2026, over 94% of his oil and gas stock purchases occurred after Trump started his war in Iran. In total, from March 2026 through August 2026, Trump purchased as much as $17.5 million of oil and gas stocks.”Keep such details in mind the next time the president declares, “We’re making a freaking fortune.”