KATIE ROGERS2026年11月11日Coping with loss looks different for everyone, and President Trump has processed the country’s nearly wholesale rejection of the Republican Party in the midterm elections in his own way.每个人应对失败的方式都不一样，而特朗普总统正以他自己的方式来消化这个国家在中期选举中对共和党近乎全面的否定。The last week has seen the president renew false claims about rigged elections, float a mixed martial arts executive as his new press secretary, muse about the beams in the White House ballroom, oust his chief of staff and call unannounced into C-SPAN.过去一周里，总统重新抛出了关于选举被操纵的虚假指控，提议让一名综合格斗赛事高管担任他的新任新闻秘书，念叨着白宫宴会厅的横梁，解雇了他的幕僚长，并在未事先通知的情况下和C-SPAN（公共事务卫星有线电视网，实况转播美国国会现场等——编注）进行了电话连线。In other words, this is all unfolding exactly as expected. The news has been bad, and Mr. Trump knows it. Cue the mayhem.换言之，一切都和预料的一样。坏消息接踵而至，特朗普对此心知肚明。于是，混乱开场了。“We were having a very bad press day,” Mr. Trump told reporters on Monday about why he suggested on social media that the chief executive of the Ultimate Fighting Championship should turn the briefing room into his personal octagon. “I said, you know, I think I’m going to get Dana White to be my new press secretary.”“我们度过了新闻报道非常糟糕的一天，”关于为什么他在社交媒体上建议UFC首席执行官应把简报室变成其个人的八角笼，特朗普周一向记者解释道。“我说，你知道的，我想我要让达纳·怀特来当我的新一任新闻秘书。”Mr. Trump loves to change an unflattering headline by whipping out a diversion. But his usual tricks seem particularly discordant in the face of the urgent challenges facing the White House. There is an effort to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, wars in Ukraine and Iran that the president promised to resolve months or years ago, and an incoming Congress whose Democratic majority is hungry to hold administration officials to account.特朗普喜欢通过突然抛出一个转移注意力的噱头来扭转不利的新闻。但面对白宫眼下面临的紧迫挑战，他惯用的伎俩似乎显得尤为不合时宜。目前有人正推动弹劾国防部长皮特·海格塞斯；总统数月乃至数年前承诺解决的伊朗和乌克兰战争仍在继续；此外，即将上任的民主党多数国会正急于追究政府官员的责任。But so far, Mr. Trump’s answer to the pressure has been to take an unserious approach to some of the most serious topics. In recent days, he has left the country guessing what he may do, what he may say, or even when he may show up in public.但到目前为止，特朗普应对压力的对策是对一些最严肃的话题采取并不严肃的态度。最近几天，他让整个国家都在猜测他可能会做什么、说什么，甚至猜测他什么时候会在公开场合露面。His advisers say the president thrives on chaos. The problem is that the public may not.他的顾问们表示，总统在混乱中如鱼得水。问题在于，公众可能并非如此。“We always talk about Donald Trump as the executive producer in chief,” said Doug Heye, a Republican strategist. “TV shows sort of run out of steam before they get to season six. That’s a big part of where voters are. They’re just exhausted.”“我们总是把唐纳德·特朗普称作‘首席执行制片人’，”共和党战略家道格·海伊说。“电视节目往往在播到第六季前热度就不行了。很大程度上，这也正是选民当下的状态。他们只是筋疲力尽了。”This extends to Mr. Trump repeating his baseless claims about election fraud. “It’s just not a credible argument, to the point that nobody’s paying attention,” Mr. Heye added.这种疲态也体现在人们对特朗普重复其关于选举欺诈的无端指控上。“这根本不是一个可信的论点，以至于已经没人关注了，”海伊补充道。Indeed, after the president on Monday revived claims that the midterm vote had been manipulated, the conservative commentator Megyn Kelly had a two-word retort: “Just stop.”事实上，在总统周一重新提起中期选举投票被操纵的指控后，保守派评论员梅根·凯只回了寥寥几字：“得了吧。”Beni Rae Harmony, a White House spokeswoman, defended the president’s focus and productivity.白宫发言人贝尼·雷·哈莫尼为总统的专注度及工作效率进行了辩护。“President Trump never stops working, and his momentum has only increased in the past week,” she said in a statement, adding that he had held seven policy meetings, met with the Qatari prime minister and signed several bills into law, including one that designated a museum in Missouri as a national historic landmark and one that changes the bankruptcy threshold for small businesses.“特朗普总统从未停止工作，在过去的一周里他的动力只增不减，”她在一份声明中表示，并补充说总统举行了七次政策会议，会见了卡塔尔首相，并将数项法案签发为法律，其中包括一项将密苏里州的一家博物馆指定为国家历史地标的法案，以及一项修改小企业破产门槛的法案。One adviser, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the environment in the White House, called this moment a “natural transition phase.”一位要求匿名以描述白宫当前氛围的顾问，将这一时刻称为“自然的过渡阶段”。This is a sanguine descriptor, given the abrupt departure of Susie Wiles, the chief of staff Mr. Trump replaced with Stephen Miller, a hard-line loyalist who has driven many of the policies voters rejected last week. A Republican fratricide has also been playing out on social media, where current and former Trump officials have spent the past several days blaming each other for the midterm failures, trading accusations of corruption and grift, and threatening lawsuits.这是一个颇为乐观的描述，因为前幕僚长苏西·怀尔斯刚遭遇突然解职，而特朗普用斯蒂芬·米勒接替了她。米勒是一名强硬的忠诚派，曾推动了许多在上周遭选民抵制的政策。同时，一场共和党人的内斗也正在社交媒体上上演，在过去的几天里，现任和前任特朗普政府官员一直在为中期选举的失利互相指责，相互指控对方腐败和敛财，并威胁要提起诉讼。It is the Republican version of the scene in the 2004 movie “Mean Girls,” in which the main antagonist makes public a book full of private insults, unleashing bedlam inside a high school.这就像是 2004 年电影《贱女孩》(Mean Girls)中某个场景的共和党翻版：在那场戏中，大反派公开了一本写满私人侮辱言辞的日记本，在一所高中里引发了轩然大波。After spending a weekend at Mar-a-Lago golfing and delivering impromptu remarks at a conservative gathering on his property, Mr. Trump sought to distract from the bad headlines and the mounting congressional support for the impeachment of his defense secretary. On Monday, he startled reporters with an appearance in the White House briefing room.在马阿拉歌度过了一个高尔夫周末、在那里的一场保守派集会上发表即兴讲话后，特朗普试图转移人们对负面新闻以及国会支持弹劾其国防部长的呼声不断高涨的关注。周一，他出人意料地现身白宫简报室，令记者们感到惊讶。Mr. Trump riffed about his gambit of offering the press secretary gig to Mr. White, who accompanied him to greet reporters, and then began fielding questions of national and international import.特朗普随口拿他提议怀特担任新闻秘书的把戏开起了玩笑——当时怀特也随他一起前来和记者们打招呼，随后便开始回答一些重要的国内外问题。Asked about the admission by Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, of an affair with a Chinese businesswoman U.S. officials concluded was an intelligence operative for Beijing, the president seemed unconcerned, saying he bought Mr. Huang’s explanation.当被问及英伟达首席执行官黄仁勋承认与一名中国女商人有染（美国官员断定该女子为北京的情报人员）一事时，总统似乎毫不关心，表示自己相信黄仁勋的解释。“He said, ‘I had no idea that she was a spy,’ and I really believe him,” Mr. Trump said.“他说，‘我完全不知道她是间谍，’而我真的相信他，”特朗普说。The president also discussed the death toll in the Russia-Ukraine war, framing his assessment of the carnage in terms he understood: crowd sizes.总统还讨论了俄乌战争的死亡人数，用他最熟悉的词汇——观众群规模，来表达他对这场惨烈杀戮的评估。“I just think that Ukraine and Russia are tired of fighting. They’re tired of seeing dead young soldiers, mostly soldiers. Most of the people are soldiers. Think of it. They’re losing 25,000 — Dana, can you imagine 25,000? That’s like a stadium, Madison Square Garden. You have your fights, 25,000. That’s what it holds, and they’re losing that every single month, dead, young beautiful people, and it’s — it’s got to stop.”“我只是认为乌克兰和俄罗斯都厌倦了战斗。他们厌倦了看到年轻士兵死去，主要是士兵。死的大多是士兵。想想看。他们损失了2.5万人——达纳，你能想象2.5万人吗？那就是个体育场了，像麦迪逊广场花园那样的。你办比赛，2.5万人。那就是它的容量，而他们每个月都在失去这么多人，死去的、年轻漂亮的人，而这——这必须停止。”The fun and games continued later on Monday when Mr. Trump called into the premiere of a C-SPAN show, apparently without notice. A woman could be heard giggling in the background as the president’s call connected.这场玩笑和游戏在周一晚些时候还在继续。当时特朗普似乎在没有预先通知的情况下，拨通了C-SPAN一档首播节目的热线。当总统的电话接通时，可以听到背景中有一名女子在咯咯地笑。For eight minutes, Mimi Geerges, the host of the program, tried to press Mr. Trump about news he had made in several other interviews since the midterm elections. What about that immigration deal he had suggested he could strike with Democrats? What about amnesty for some migrant workers, as he had suggested on “60 Minutes” over the weekend?在八分钟的通话里，该节目主持人米米·格尔吉斯试图就特朗普自中期选举以来在其他几次采访中引出的话题追问他。他之前暗示可能与民主党人达成的那项移民协议进展如何了？他周末在《60分钟》节目中暗示的、给予部分移民人员的特赦又是怎么回事？His responses were not clarifying.他的回答并未起到任何澄清作用。“Frankly, a big problem we had is the mental institutions being dumped into our country. Some very dangerous people were released into our country, to put it mildly. So we have not put the same, uh, pressure, obviously, and, you know, the, uh, we call them the worst of the worst,” Mr. Trump said, by way of an answer. “We haven’t put the same pressure on waitresses and, and on farm workers, et cetera. Not even close.”“坦率地说，我们面临的一个大问题是精神病院里的人被倾倒进我们的国家。说得委婉点，一些极其危险的人被释放到了我们的国家。所以，我们显然没有施加同样的，呃，压力，而且，你知道的，那个，呃，我们称他们为最坏中的最坏，”特朗普如此回答道。“我们没有对女服务员和农场工人等人群施加同等的压力。差得远了。”Natural transition phase or not, many Republicans are worried that the White House will not be able to deliver on the request made by voters last week, which was to get serious about addressing economic concerns, an unchecked war and accusations of rampant corruption among those in Mr. Trump’s orbit.无论这是否属于“自然的过渡阶段”，许多共和党人都担心，白宫将无法满足选民上周提出的要求——即认真应对经济担忧、一场不受控制的战争，以及针对特朗普核心圈子里猖獗腐败的指控。The best-case scenario, said the G.O.P. strategist Whit Ayres, would be if the administration followed through “on Trump’s initial instinct to do something with the Democrats who are going to be running the place shortly.”共和党策略师惠特·艾尔斯表示，最好的情况将是，政府能够顺应“特朗普最初的直觉，与不久后即将接管这里的民主党人一起合作做些什么”。But, he added, “I think the chances of that happening are somewhere between slim and none.”但是，他补充道，“我认为这种情况发生的几率微乎其微。”Katie Rogers是时报白宫记者，报道特朗普总统。翻译：经雷点击查看本文英文版。