特朗普政府的网络账号正在传播一张刻有草帽图案的南瓜图片，以及一张围绕一名黑人男子的伪造万圣节主题背景图，该男子疑似被指控食品援助欺诈。批评人士抨击这些社交媒体帖子充满煽动性言辞。
The Trump administration’s online accounts are circulating images of a pumpkin carved with a sombrero design and a fake Halloween-themed background around a Black man apparently accused of food assistance fraud, in social media posts slammed by critics as inflammatory rhetoric.
距离中期选举仅剩数天，这些帖子的发布正值政府开展大规模行动以展示其激进的移民执法之际，并突出打击欺诈、为纳税人省钱的努力。当前医疗成本上升和其他经济压力使得负担能力成为选民最关心的问题。
Only days before the midterm elections, the posts coincide with the government’s sweeping campaign to show its aggressive immigration enforcement , and highlight efforts to crack down on fraud to save taxpayers money when rising healthcare costs and other economic stressors have made affordability a top voter concern.
农业部长布鲁克·罗林斯周六在社交平台 X 上发布了一张照片，画面中这名黑人男子站在疑似成堆的美元钞票前，标题为“SNAP FRAUDSTER”（SNAP 欺诈者），疑似指代补充营养援助计划（Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program，前身为食品券计划）。他高举着一张疑似被点燃的钞票。
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins posted Saturday on the social platform X a photo of the Black man standing in front of stacks of what appear to be U.S. currency with the headline, SNAP FRAUDSTER, an apparent reference to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps. He is holding aloft what appears to be a bill set aflame.
配文写道：“有些服装标着价码。这一套标着刑期。”背景是伪造的“Spirit Halloween”服装包装。
“Some costumes come with a price tag. This one comes with a prison sentence,” it says to the backdrop of fake Spirit Halloween costume packaging.
白宫于周四在 X 上发布的另一张照片显示，一个南瓜上刻着草帽的形状，并配有文字“Spooky szn is here”（恐怖季来了）。罗林斯发布的这张帖子疑似源自一个名为“Shawty Dred”的账号于 2025 年 9 月发布的 Instagram 帖子。罗林斯于 2024 年 11 月被特朗普提名担任美国农业部长。
Another photo posted by the White House on X on Thursday showed a pumpkin with the shape of a sombrero carved across it and the words “Spooky szn is here.”The post by Rollins, who was nominated by Trump to serve as the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture in November 2024, appears to be taken from an Instagram post from September 2025 by an account under the name Shawty Dred.
本月早些时候，梅赛德斯·雷沙德·纽被司法部认定为一名社交媒体名人，也被称为“Shawty Dred”，她因在佐治亚州欺诈性获取超过 400 万美元的补充营养援助计划福利而被联邦指控逮捕。
Earlier this month, Mercedes Reshard New, identified by the Justice Department as a social media personality also known as “Shawty Dred,” was arrested on federal charges for fraudulently obtaining more than $4 million in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits in Georgia.
这并非白宫首次因在官方政府社交媒体账号上发布煽动性图片而受到指责。
It’s not the first time the White House has been accused of posting inflammatory images on official government social media accounts.
就在一年多前的政府停摆期间，白宫重新传播了一段特朗普发布的深度伪造视频，视频中众议院民主党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯留着假胡子、戴着宽檐草帽，以此指责民主党代表非法移民而非美国公民行事。杰弗里斯称该梗图带有偏见色彩。他们在白宫简报室循环播放该视频，尽管副总统万斯承诺，如果民主党同意结束停摆，“宽檐草帽梗图将停止播放”。全美有色人种协会未回复置评邮件，白宫和罗林斯也未回复。
Just over a year ago during the government shutdown, the White House revived a deepfake video posted by Trump of House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries in a fake mustache and sombrero to accuse the Democrats of acting on behalf of illegal immigrants instead of U.S. citizens. Jeffries described the meme as bigoted. They played it on repeat in the White House briefing room, though Vice President JD Vance promised that the “sombrero memes will stop” when Democrats agreed to end the shutdown. The NAACP did not respond to an email seeking comment, nor did the White House or Rollins.
近几周，特朗普政府升级了其反移民言论和欺诈指控，其中包括针对联邦众议员伊尔汗·奥马尔，联邦探员本月早些时候搜查了她位于华盛顿特区的住所。联邦当局正在调查其家庭移民文件中潜在的欺诈行为。出生于索马里的奥马尔是美国归化公民。
The Trump administration in recent weeks has ratcheted up its anti-immigrant rhetoric and accusations of fraud, including against U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar whose Washington, D.C., home was searched by federal agents earlier this month. Federal authorities are investigating potential fraud in her family’s immigration paperwork. Omar, who was born in Somalia, is a naturalized U.S. citizen.
政府还采取了一系列惩罚性措施，涉及主要由民主党执政的州（包括加利福尼亚州和明尼苏达州）被指控存在欺诈行为，这些州的州长指责联邦政府出于政治原因针对其州。
It also has taken a series of punitive steps linked to allegations of fraud in mostly Democratic-led states , including California and Minnesota whose governors accused the federal government of targeting their states for political reasons.
联邦检察官在10月21日的新闻稿中表示，这位网红纽在2020年1月至2026年7月期间，利用被盗身份控制了350多个欺诈性SNAP账户。据指控，他申请让其公司Shawty Dred LLC成为授权SNAP零售商，并使用EBT借记卡从这些账户中套取约400万美元。
Federal prosecutors said in a news release Oct. 21 that the influencer, New, controlled more than 350 fraudulent SNAP accounts under stolen identities between January 2020 and July 2026. He allegedly applied for his company, Shawty Dred LLC, to become an authorized SNAP retailer and used EBT debit cards to extract about $4 million from the accounts.
联邦检察官称，纽拥有逾200万粉丝的Instagram账号炫耀其奢华生活方式。帖子显示他乘坐私人飞机、在其“超级豪宅”前与劳斯莱斯汽车合影、以及把玩巨额现金。
New’s Instagram account, which has more than two million followers, has flaunted his extravagant lifestyle, federal prosecutors said. Posts depict him flying on private jets, posing with Rolls-Royce vehicles in front of his “super mansion,” and handling massive stacks of cash.
“本应用于帮助有需要的家庭的这笔钱，据称却被社交媒体名人‘Shawty Dred’ New 用来资助奢华生活，”联邦调查局（FBI）亚特兰大分局主管特工马洛·格雷厄姆在声明中说。
“Instead of this money feeding families in need, New, the social media personality known as ‘Shawty Dred,’ allegedly used the cash to bankroll a life of luxury,” Special Agent in Charge of FBI Atlanta Marlo Graham said in the release.
联邦大陪审团于 10 月 7 日以数十项邮件欺诈罪、加重身份盗窃罪，以及各一项食品券欺诈罪和非法使用接入设备交易罪起诉 New。他于 10 月 13 日被捕，目前仍被联邦当局羁押。
New was indicted by a federal grand jury Oct. 7 on dozens of counts of mail fraud and aggravated identity theft, and one count each of SNAP fraud and illegal transactions with access devices. He was arrested Oct. 13 and remains in federal custody.
根据富尔顿县监狱记录，New 曾因涉嫌身份盗窃、保险欺诈、金融交易卡欺诈、伪造和普通袭击等罪名被多次逮捕。
According to Fulton County jail records, New has been arrested multiple times on suspicion of crimes including identity theft, insurance fraud, financial transaction card fraud, forgery and simple assault.
法庭记录中列为 New 联邦公设辩护人的约瑟夫·奥斯汀未回复电话留言。
A federal defender listed in court records as representing New, Joseph Austin, did not return a phone message.