“你知道吗，乔，如果不是因为政治，我相信我们本可以是好朋友，”前美国总统乔·拜登在回忆2024年总统选举后收到的唐纳德·特朗普的信息时，引述了他的继任者特朗普的话。拜登在即将出版的回忆录《承诺我，美国》中详细描述了他与特朗普的互动。
"You know, Joe, if it weren't for politics, I believe we'd be good friends," former US President Joe Biden quoted his successor Donald Trump as saying as he recalled a message from him following the 2024 presidential elections. Biden detailed his interaction with Trump in ‘Promise Me, America’, his forthcoming memoir.
在对特朗普否认2020年总统选举结果以及其在2021年美国国会大厦骚乱中的角色进行猛烈抨击的同时，拜登也提到了特朗普的另一面——后者用罕见的温暖言辞让拜登感到惊讶。
While he launched a sharp attack on Trump for denying the results of the 2020 presidential election and his role in the US Capitol riots in 2021, he also mentioned another side of Trump, where the latter stunned Biden with rare warm words.
拜登在这部480页的回忆录中为自己在白宫的任期辩护，描述了他决定在2024年竞选连任、最终决定退出竞选以让卡马拉·哈里斯参选总统的过程，以及他在2023年10月7日爆发的以色列-哈马斯战争期间对以色列总理本杰明·内塔尼亚胡的失望。现年患有第四期前列腺癌的前总统还坚持称赞其政府在抗击新冠疫情以及有争议的阿富汗撤军方面的努力。
Biden defended his time in the White House in his 480-page memoir, while describing his decision to run for re-election in 2024, his ultimate decision to drop out of the race to allow Kamala Harris to run for president, and his frustration with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the Israel-Hamas war that began on October 7, 2023. The former president, battling stage 4 prostate cancer, also stood by his administration's efforts to battle the Covid-19 pandemic and the controversial military withdrawal from Afghanistan.'
“两位唐纳德·特朗普”长期以来一直是特朗普政治对手的拜登在书中开篇即对现任总统在2021年1月6日美国国会大厦骚乱中的角色进行严厉批评。拜登指责特朗普领导了一场叛乱，并称其为“我们历史上任何总统最严重的失职之一”，《华尔街日报》看到的书稿摘录如此写道。
Two Donald Trumps'Biden, who had long been Trump's bitter political rival, opened the book by launching a scathing attack on the current president's role in the US Capitol riots on January 6, 2021. Biden accused Trump of leading an insurrection, describing it as among the "worst derelictions of duty by any president in our history", according to excerpts of the book seen by the Wall Street Journal.
然而，拜登指出，进入白宫后，他收到了特朗普寄来的一封“宽宏大量”的信，信中包含了在激烈的总统竞选攻击数月后罕见的赞赏之词。“这几乎就像出现了两个唐纳德·特朗普，”拜登在书中写道。
However, Biden noted that after arriving in the White House, he found a "magnanimous" letter from Trump containing some rare words of appreciation months after fierce attacks during the presidential campaign. "It was almost as if there were two Donald Trumps," Biden wrote in his book.
该信写于2021年1月20日，即拜登就任第46任总统的当天。
The letter was written on January 20, 2021, the day Biden took office as the 46th president.
特朗普当天早晨离开华盛顿，成为150多年来首位缺席继任者就职典礼的离任总统。
Trump departed Washington that morning and became the first outgoing president in more than 150 years to skip his successor’s inauguration.
他还描述了2024年选举后，特朗普在椭圆形办公室对他进行的“奉承”式会面。拜登说，特朗普曾对他说：“你知道，乔，如果不是政治因素，我相信我们会是好朋友，”这让拜登感到震惊。特朗普在会面中又说：“如果不是政治因素，我们就会整天一起打高尔夫，”拜登形容这段私人话语“听起来像是老朋友的口吻”。拜登关于连任的表态这位前总统也坚持自己决定竞选连任，称没有人反对。“有人说我自欺欺人，觉得我这个年纪还能胜任工作。我的回答是：我一直在做好本职工作，”他写道。
He also described Trump's "fawning" meeting with him in the Oval Office after the 2024 election. "You know, Joe, if it weren't for politics, I believe we'd be good friends," Biden described Trump as saying, which left him stunned." If it weren't for politics, we'd spend all our time golfing together," Biden said Trump told him at the meeting, adding that the private note “sounded like it was coming from an old friend.”Biden on running for re-electionThe former president also stood by his decision to run for a second term, saying no one had objected. "People say I was deluding myself that I could do the job at my age. My answer to that is: I was doing my job," he wrote.
拜登表示，他不认为民主党有比他更好的候选人。就在6月与特朗普进行灾难性总统辩论前不久，这位83岁的拜登称自己并不担心与特朗普辩论的能力，但质疑是否有必要进行辩论，因为特朗普一贯违反规则。
Biden said he did not believe the Democrats had a better candidate than him. Just before the disastrous presidential debate with Trump in June, the 83-year-old Biden said he was not concerned about his ability to debate Trump, but questioned the need to do so due to his pattern of violating the rules.
然而，拜登承认自己在辩论中“搞砸了”，他说自己思路中断，脱口而出“我们终于打败了医疗保险”，本应说的是“我们终于打败了大型制药公司”，据《纽约时报》报道。他的表现引发了民主党内部的狂热，最终导致拜登退出竞选。
However, Biden admitted that he "screwed up" during the debate, adding that he had lost his train of thought and blurted out, "We finally beat Medicare" instead of saying, "We finally beat Big Pharma", according to The New York Times. His performance led to a frenzy among Democrats, eventually leading Biden to drop out of the race.
拜登称，他曾与众议院民主党领袖南希·佩洛西和参议院民主党领袖查克·舒默进行私下会谈，二人敦促他撤回竞选，这让他感到沉重。拜登说佩洛西在警告他所有民调均指向败局后，“在幕后疯狂工作，试图让当选官员和拜登的代表倒戈”。前总统称，后来他在一家意大利餐厅与佩洛西共进午餐，修复了双方关系。
Biden said he held private meetings with House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, who urged him to withdraw his campaign, which weighed heavily on him. Biden said Pelosi was “working furiously behind the scenes to get elected officials and Biden delegates to defect” after warning him that all polls pointed to his defeat. The ex-president said he later repaired his relations with Pelosi over lunch at an Italian restaurant.