SHAWN McCREESH2026年9月26日周四晚，特朗普总统和中国国家主席习近平携夫人出席了在白宫举行的国宴。 Doug Mills/The New York TimesIt was just a fun little dinner for the people deciding the future of humanity.这不过是为决定人类未来者举办的一场轻松愉快的小型晚宴。The amount of power concentrated at the head table alone was dizzying. The American president and the Chinese president, dining by candlelight with Elon Musk, Jensen Huang and Tim Cook, all of them sitting in the State Dining room of the White House at this moment that many in Silicon Valley warn could be the last before mankind stumbles into the A.I. apocalypse.光是主桌上汇聚的权力就令人目眩。美国总统和中国国家主席与埃隆·马斯克、黄仁勋和蒂姆·库克在烛光下共进晚餐。此刻，他们全都坐在白宫的国宴厅里，而硅谷的许多人警告说，这可能是人类陷入人工智能末日之前的最后时刻。周四晚上的国宴场面极为隆重。Standing before a room chockablock with A.I. moguls, billionaires and politicians, President Trump decided to depart from his prepared remarks. Now that he finally had these people together in one place, he could talk about his important plans. The ones he’s been working on nonstop ever since he returned to the White House.站在挤满人工智能大亨、亿万富翁和政界人士的房间里，特朗普总统决定脱离准备好的讲稿。既然他终于把这些人聚在了一起，他就可以谈谈自己的重要计划——自从他重返白宫以来就一直不遗余力推进的计划。“If I could go off-script, just for a second,” he said.“请允许我脱稿一下，就一小会儿，”他说。The sound of rich people clapping filled the room. Suspense!富人们热烈的掌声响彻全场。有悬念！“I just want to say …” the president continued.“我只是想说……”总统继续道。“… I’d like to invite everyone in the room to visit through that beautiful curtain in the back — The door, it’s all lit up, and looks beautiful. It’s one year away from completion, the new ballroom that you’ve heard about.”“……我想邀请在座各位穿过后面那道美丽的帷幕去参观——那扇门，亮着灯，看起来很漂亮。你们听说过的那个新宴会厅，距离完工还有一年的时间。”Oh. He was inviting them to take a walk through the construction site in back of the house.哦。原来他是在邀请大家去白宫后面的建筑工地走走。“You’ll be the first people to step foot on that,” he told guests including Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman, “and we’ll do that maybe after we’re finished with the entertainment tonight.”“你们是第一批踏上那里的人，”他对包括杰夫·贝佐斯、马克·扎克伯格和萨姆·奥特曼在内的宾客们说，“也许等今晚的娱乐活动结束，我们就去那儿转转。”There was not a single mention of A.I. in his speech. Mr. Trump doesn’t buy into the A.I. panic. He insists it’s mostly just a problem of branding. A.I. needs better P.R.在他的讲话中，根本没有提及人工智能。特朗普先生并不相信人工智能恐慌。他坚持认为这主要只是一个品牌包装问题。人工智能需要更好的公关。If any of the tech titans and members of Chinese Politburo who showed up to the White House used the state visit to get on the same page about the direction of this terrifying new technology, they haven’t shared their designs with the public. This was a roomful of people who have many disagreements about the way forward.就算出现在白宫的任何科技巨头和中国政治局委员利用这次国事访问，就这项可怕的新技术的发展方向达成了什么共识，他们也没有向公众透露他们的构想。这个房间里的人对于未来的发展方向存在诸多分歧。在周四晚上的国宴上，特朗普邀请宾客参观新建宴会厅的施工现场。The American president, for his part, just seemed happy to be playing maître d’ to the mighty.就美国总统而言，他似乎只是乐于充当这些权贵们的领班角色。“You will see something that I think you will really love,” Mr. Trump told them about the ballroom site. “Tonight, if we had it, we would have had way more than a thousand people, with standing room only. And this room has about 145, that’s about it.”“你们会看到一些我觉得你们会非常喜欢的东西，”特朗普在谈到宴会厅场地时对他们说。“今晚，如果我们有那个场地，到场人数肯定远远超过一千人，挤得水泄不通。而这个厅只能装145人左右，就这样了。”“Anybody who wants to walk into a construction site that’s nice and clean and sparkling, it’s our honor to have you do so,” he said. “This is in honor of President Xi, Madam Peng.”“任何想要走进一个整洁、干净、闪闪发光的建筑工地的人，我们都很荣幸能请你来参观，”他说。“这是为了向习近平主席和彭夫人致敬。”Mr. Trump never seems more pleased than when he is hosting wealthy and powerful people at his table. The aspects of the job that so clearly delight him concern pageantry and set design, and Mr. Xi’s visit provided opportunities for plenty of it.特朗普最开心的时候似乎就是邀请富人和权贵坐在他的餐桌旁。这份工作中最能让他乐在其中的莫过于盛大的仪式和精心设计的场景，而习近平的访问为此提供了大量的机会。Earlier in the day, Mr. Trump took Mr. Xi around the back to show off a new helipad and the slick new driveway. “He’s an expert on stone, aside from many others, and he loves good granite,” Mr. Trump told reporters as the pair walked back inside.当天早些时候，特朗普带着习近平绕到后面，向他展示新建的直升机停机坪和光鲜的新车道。“他精通很多领域，还是石材专家，而且他特别喜欢上好的花岗岩，”两人走回室内时，特朗普对记者说。特朗普带领习近平参观了新建的直升机停机坪。Mr. Xi announced a gift of two giant pandas, named Ping Ping and Fu Shuang, who will live at the Atlanta zoo. At the dinner, Mr. Trump unveiled a rather large statue of a bald eagle to give to the Chinese autocrat.习近平宣布赠送两只大熊猫作为礼物，它们名叫“平平”和“福双”，将会生活在亚特兰大动物园。在晚宴上，特朗普揭幕了一座相当大的白头海雕雕像，作为送给这位中国专制统治者的礼物。“We hope it’ll find a nice place, a wonderful place, in Beijing,” Mr. Trump said.“我们希望它能在北京找到一个好地方，一个绝好的位置，”特朗普说。Sadly for Mr. Trump, almost none of this made it onto the television networks he watches so closely. The Chinese state visit has collided with the consequences of the decision he made in a fit of pique last Friday to ban CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House campus. A judge ordered the Trump administration to let the banned reporters back Thursday, but the TV networks are still refusing to take Mr. Trump’s carnival live. Until his administration formally agrees to let CNN back into the White House TV pool rotation, he is not going to see those blinking red lights he loves so much.令特朗普遗憾的是，这一切几乎都没有出现在他密切关注的电视上。此次中国国家元首的访问恰好与他上周五一气之下做出的决定所带来的后果发生了冲突——他当时下令禁止CNN、MS NOW和Politico进入白宫区域。周四，一名法官下令特朗普政府允许被禁记者重返白宫，但各大电视网仍拒绝直播特朗普的这场嘉年华。除非他的政府正式同意让CNN重新加入白宫电视联合采访团轮换，否则他将无法看到那些他深深喜爱的闪烁红灯。在国宴上，双方互赠了礼物，特朗普总统向这位中国领导人赠送了一尊白头海雕雕像。Shortly before the dinner began, he posted one of his diatribes on his website.就在晚宴开始前不久，他在自己的网站上发布了一篇抨击文章。CNN and MS NOW were “fake,” he wrote, because they wouldn’t cover “one of the Biggest and Most Beautiful Events to take place in many years, the arrival at the White House of the Highly Respected President of China, Xi Jinping, and his beautiful wife, Madam Peng."他写道，CNN和MS NOW是“假新闻”，因为它们拒绝报道“多年来最盛大、最美丽的活动之一——备受尊敬的中国国家主席习近平和他美丽的妻子彭夫人抵达白宫。”The president continued: “The event was magnificent — Actually made for Television but, because they’re Fake News, and because they knew how good it would be, they didn’t want credit to be given to ‘TRUMP,’ they refused to be there. That’s why they have such poor Ratings.”总统还写道：“这场活动非常盛大——实际上就是为电视量身定做的，但因为它们是假新闻，而且因为它们知道这会有多棒，它们不想把功劳归于‘特朗普’，所以它们拒绝出席。所以它们的收视率才这么糟糕。”He concluded: “Tonight’s State Dinner at the White House, for President Xi, will be spectacular! The Media will be in attendance.”他总结道：“今晚在白宫为习近平主席举行的国宴将会非常壮观！媒体届时也会到场。”Yes, the White House complex was crawling with journalists Thursday evening as Mr. Xi pulled up to the front door of the residence. But, in the spirit of solidarity with those targeted by Mr. Trump’s ban, some just ignored the spectacle.是的，周四傍晚，当习近平抵达白宫官邸正门时，白宫建筑群内确实到处都是记者。但是，为了声援那些遭到特朗普禁令针对的人士，一些人对这个壮观的场面无动于衷。中国国家主席习近平的专车驶过白宫西翼外的媒体记者群。Shawn McCreesh是时报白宫记者，报道特朗普政府新闻。翻译：纽约时报中文网点击查看本文英文版。