到周二众议院和参议院的选举结果都显示民主党人获胜时，两党成员的共识正在形成：选民已经否定了唐纳德·特朗普总统的执政记录，在他剩余任期内，他将面对截然不同的政治现实。然而，特朗普的看法截然不同。
By the time the House and Senate had been called for Democrats on Tuesday, a consensus among members of both parties was forming: voters had rejected President Donald Trump’s record in office, and he would face a starkly different political reality for the remainder of his term. Trump, however, sees it very differently.
“但我不认为这是对我的打击，”特朗普在接受福克斯新闻电话直播采访时说。“就经济而言，就我们做的所有事情而言，我们经历了总统历史上最伟大的两年。”特朗普坚称，全美各地令人震惊的选举结果，主要不是他八个月前发动的伊朗战争的错——他告诉《华尔街日报》，那只是其中的“一部分”——也不是推高价格的关税或他对远离选民关注的话题的执迷所致。
“But I don’t view it as a hit on me,” Trump told Fox News in a live phone interview. “We’ve had the greatest two years in the history of the presidency in terms of the economy, in terms of all the things that we’ve done.”The stunning results across a swath of America were not primarily the fault of the Iran war he began eight months ago — he told the Wall Street Journal that was only a “piece” of it — or the tariffs that drove up prices or his fixation on topics far from voters’ minds, Trump insisted.
他认为，要怪的是候选人，再加上他曾经最喜欢的福克斯新闻对民主党人的有利报道。他后来对该频道说，结果只是“小小的意外”。他早就警告过，历史的潮流总是对他不利。但他没有提到，许多候选人是他自己挑选的。
It was the candidates who were to blame, he argued, helped along by favorable coverage of Democrats on his once-favorite channel, Fox News. The results were only a “little surprise,” he would later tell that channel. The winds of history were always against him, he’d long warned. He neglected to mention that he had selected many of the candidates himself.
“我原以为他们会表现得更好，”特朗普对福克斯说，他用第三人称指代共和党人，而不是他目前领导的这个党。后来，他把失利归因于“空气中的情绪”。周二晚上他还坚称，尽管华盛顿的政治环境发生了巨大变化，他的执政议程将继续推进。
“I thought they’d do better,” he told Fox, referring to Republicans in the third person rather than the party he is currently leading. Later, he attributed the losses to a “mood in the air.”He also insisted Tuesday night that his governing agenda would continue apace, despite the dramatically altered political conditions in Washington.
选举结果为特朗普漫长且常常令人沮丧的竞选季画上了句号。过去一个月的大部分时间里，他乘坐空军一号飞往红州，任务是鼓励支持者“假装我也在选票上”。这一策略没有奏效，但特朗普认为错不在自己的表现，而在他试图帮助的那些人的表现。
The election results were the punctuation on a long and often frustrating campaign season for Trump, who spent the bulk of the last month flying aboard Air Force One to red states with the task of encouraging supporters to “pretend I’m on the ballot.”The gambit did not work, but Trump saw fault not in his own performance but in that of the people he was trying to help.
“他们就是没能激励人们出来投票，”他对福克斯新闻表示。“而我并不在选票上。如果我在选票上，他们就会出来投票。”周二落选的许多候选人——包括南卡罗来纳州的达琳·格雷厄姆、得克萨斯州的肯·帕克斯顿、北卡罗来纳州的迈克尔·沃特利和佐治亚州的迈克·柯林斯——都是特朗普亲自挑选的，在某些情况下甚至不顾其他共和党人的反对。
“They just didn’t inspire the people to get out and vote,” he told Fox. “And I wasn’t on the ballot. If I was on the ballot, they would have got out.”Many of the candidates who lost on Tuesday — including Darline Graham in South Carolina, Ken Paxton in Texas, Michael Whatley in North Carolina and Mike Collins in Georgia — were hand-selected by Trump himself, in some cases over the objections of other Republicans.
他在抱怨这些候选人无法将他本人的支持转化为选票时，并未提及这一点。
He did not mention that as he bemoaned the candidates’ inability to translate his support into votes.
“我别无选择，”他说起决定支持得克萨斯州候选人肯·帕克斯顿时表示，后者深陷丑闻，特朗普力挺他而非现任参议员约翰·科宁。“当这不合时宜时，他舔我的屁股。”特朗普想要把责任推给本党候选人的意愿似乎随时都在变化。
“I had no choice,” he said of the decision to support Ken Paxton, the scandal-plagued candidate in Texas he endorsed over incumbent Sen. John Cornyn. “When it wasn’t fashionable, he kissed my ass.”How intensively Trump wanted to pin blame on his party’s candidates seemed to vary by the minute.
“我要成为一名政治评论员，无论好坏，评论这些候选人获胜和失败的原因！”他在午夜前几分钟在“真相社交”上写道，语气不祥。
“I’m going to become a Political Pundit, both good and bad, on the reasons these Candidates won and lost!” he wrote, ominously, on Truth Social a few minutes before midnight.
他的首个攻击目标是得克萨斯州州长格雷格·阿博特，这位共和党现任州长在连任竞选中败给了民主党人吉娜·伊诺霍萨。特朗普称他是“名义上的共和党人”，并声称“他回到了他原来的套路，结果很难看！”但大致在同一时间，他在接受《政治客》电话采访时坚称自己对归咎责任不感兴趣。
His first target was Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, the Republican incumbent who lost re-election to Democrat Gina Hinojosa. Trump deemed him a “Republican in name only” and claimed “He went back to his original formula, and it wasn’t pretty!”But in a phone interview with Politico around the same time, he insisted he wasn’t interested in assigning blame.
“我不想责怪任何人，”他说。“我只想说，你知道，那是一段非常有趣的时期。我非常有兴趣地关注了这一切，从中吸取了教训。”特朗普对民主党人的语气听起来更具和解姿态，如果他想让国会通过任何法案，现在将不得不依靠他们。2018年中期选举共和党失去众议院控制权后，他也曾做出过类似的两党合作承诺，但那些两党合作的提议并未兑现。
“I don’t want to blame anybody,” he said. “I just want to say, you know, it was a very interesting period of time. I watched with great interest, learned from it.”Trump sounded more conciliatory toward Democrats, who he will now be forced to rely upon if he wants to pass anything through Congress. He made similar pledges after Republicans lost the House in the 2018 midterms, but the offers of bipartisanship did not materialize.
“你知道，我有很多朋友是民主党人。信不信由你，我已经和他们中的一些人谈过了，”他说，但未透露名字。
“You know, I have a lot of friends that are Democrats. Believe it or not, I’ve already spoken to some of them,” he said, without naming them.
他含糊地谈到试图寻找妥协领域，但坚称对许多共和党人认为导致共和党困境的主要问题——伊朗战争——毫无遗憾。
He spoke vaguely of trying to find areas of compromise, but insisted he had no regrets about the issue many Republicans blame most for Republicans’ woes — the war in Iran.
“我不去想它。我做了正确的事，”当被问及是否对战争有遗憾时，他对《华尔街日报》说。“我还会再做一遍。”
“I don’t think about it. I did the right thing,” he told the Wall Street Journal when asked if he had regrets about the war. “I would have done it again.”