PETER BAKER2026年9月10日7月4日美国国庆日活动期间，特朗普在使用手机。发布数十条关于自己和对手的表情包及AI生成图像已成为他第二个任期的标志性特征。 Al Drago for The New York TimesJust before noon on a holiday weekend, while many Americans were at the beach, President Trump’s social media account roared to life. In what has increasingly become his weekend habit, he unleashed a daylong barrage of posts that put the bully in the modern bully pulpit.在一个假期周末临近中午时分，当许多美国人还在海滩上时，特朗普总统的社交媒体账号突然活跃起来。这已越来越成为他周末的习惯——持续一整天的密集发帖，把总统的舆论平台变成了霸凌现场。There were images of Mr. Trump intimidating Canada’s prime minister with a hockey stick, personally bombing enemy targets and patrolling dark streets with killer robots. There were maps showing the United States taking over other countries, and maps renaming a state. There were attacks on the “Dumocratic Party” and tributes to himself as “the Greatest President of All Time!”特朗普发布了一些图片：里面有他手持冰球杆威吓加拿大总理，或者亲自轰炸敌方目标，或者与杀人机器人一起在漆黑的街道上巡逻的场景。还有显示美国吞并其他国家以及给某个州改名的地图。他还攻击“Dumocratic Party”（故意将民主党拼成蠢货党——译注），并发帖自夸“有史以来最伟大的总统”。The 60 messages posted online over 10 hours and 41 minutes offered a window into Mr. Trump’s own unique reality, one anchored not in fact but in an expression of ego. For years, his social media feed was said to be a mirror of his id. But with A.I., it has become the manifestation of how he wants to be seen in a more visual, visceral way than ever before — as a warrior, as a conqueror, as a historical figure, as a younger and thinner and more muscular version of himself.这60条信息在10小时41分钟内陆续发布，向人们展示了特朗普独特的现实世界——一个并非建立在事实而是建立在自我意识表达之上的世界。多年来，人们一直说他的社交媒体动态就像他本我的一面镜子。但借助人工智能，它比以往任何时候都更加直观、更加震撼地展现了他想要呈现的形象——一名战士、一名征服者、一位历史人物，以及一个更加年轻、更加瘦削、肌肉更加发达的自己。In Mr. Trump’s digitally enhanced version of the world, he is a giant in every way, a man who defeats every adversary, overcomes every obstacle and sinks every putt. He not only redraws the map of the world but vanquishes the heavens themselves. “The Moon Is Ours,” declared one post last weekend with an image of the earth’s only satellite. Another posted a few weeks ago showed him leading an extraterrestrial alien in shackles.在特朗普经过数字技术强化的世界里，他在方方面面都是一个巨人，是一个能够击败所有对手、克服所有障碍、每一杆推杆都能进洞的人。他不仅重新绘制世界地图，甚至还征服了整个苍穹。他上周末在一条帖子中配上一张地球唯一卫星的图片，宣称：“月球是我们的。”几周前的另一条帖子则显示，他牵着一个戴着镣铐的外星人。The rat-a-tat of ever wilder, ever more outrageous posts each weekend has become a fixture of the president’s second term, seen more and more as a barometer of his mental state. Mr. Trump’s critics, who never considered him a model of stability in the first place, now point to these frenetic bursts of fantasy and vanity as proof that the 80-year-old president is deteriorating further with age.每个周末越来越疯狂、越来越离谱的连番发帖已成为总统第二任期的固定节目，也越来越多地被视为衡量其精神状态的晴雨表。特朗普的批评者原本就不认为他是精神状态稳定的典范，如今更是把这些狂乱迸发的幻想和虚荣视为这位80岁总统随着年龄增长而进一步衰退的证据。It is a measure of how much Mr. Trump has changed the nature of the presidency that any of this has become routine. Past presidents believed they had a duty to carry themselves with a certain dignity befitting the office. Mr. Trump sees politics like the cage match he sponsored this summer at the White House.这些事情如今已经成为日常，恰恰说明特朗普在多大程度上改变了总统职位的性质。过去的总统认为，自己有责任以符合总统这一职位的某种庄重姿态行事。而特朗普看待政治的方式就像他今年夏天在白宫主办的那场笼斗比赛。Indeed, the images he posted over the Labor Day weekend included one with his face on Hulk Hogan’s rippling body. Another posted a day later imagined a grinning Mr. Trump easily winning an arm wrestling match against Mr. Hogan, the flamboyant wrestling star who died last year.事实上，他在劳动节周末发布的图片中，有一张把他的头像合成到胡克·霍根肌肉虬结的身体上。一天后的另一条帖子则想象了一个笑容满面的特朗普轻松赢得与霍根掰手腕——这位张扬的摔跤明星已于去年去世。“He floods the zone with so much of it that we’ve become numb to just how bizarre it is,” said Sarah Matthews, Mr. Trump’s former deputy White House press secretary. “An 80-year-old president is spending a ridiculous amount of time consuming and reposting endless A.I. fan fiction portraying him as the biggest, strongest and most important person alive. It feels like we’re genuinely watching his brain rot in real time.”“他用这么多东西淹没信息场，以至于我们已经对这一切有多离奇变得麻木了，”特朗普的前副白宫新闻秘书萨拉·马修斯说。“一位80岁的总统正花费荒谬的时间去消费和转发无穷无尽的人工智能同人小说，把他描绘成活着的最高大、最强壮、最重要的人。感觉我们真的是正在看着他的脑子在我们眼前一点点腐烂。”To his defenders, Mr. Trump is a master of baiting his adversaries, getting them to react. “It’s called: We do a little trolling,” as Mr. Trump once put it. The more out there the message is, the more his supporters cheer. As abnormal as the images that he posts may be for a president, Mr. Trump’s allies argue that they convey a certain raw, earthy quality that suits an age of no-holds-barred politics.对于那些为他辩护的人来说，特朗普是引诱对手上钩、让他们做出反应的大师。就像他自己曾说过的：“这叫：我们稍微逗逗他们。”内容越出格，他的支持者就越欢呼。尽管他发布的图片对一位总统来说可能很不寻常，但特朗普的盟友认为，它们传递出一种直白的、接地气的特质，恰好适合这个不受任何规则约束的政治时代。“With all due respect, the media and President Trump’s other critics have spent more than a decade complaining about his use of social media,” said Alex Bruesewitz, a former campaign aide. “They keep calling it ‘unpresidential,’ but if the president is doing it, it is presidential by definition. I think most Americans appreciate the authentic and transparent way he uses these platforms.”“恕我直言，媒体以及其他批评特朗普的人，已经抱怨他使用社交媒体超过十年了，”特朗普前竞选团队助理亚历克斯·布鲁塞维茨说。“他们一直称这种做法‘不符合总统身份’，但如果总统在这么做，那么按照定义，这就是总统的行为。我认为，大多数美国人都欣赏他使用这些平台时所展现出的真实和透明。”Violence is a recurring theme in Mr. Trump’s feed. He relishes the idea of himself as a tough man staring down anyone who gets in his way. He smashes Iran with a giant hammer. He pilots a spacecraft blasting the planet. Most arresting was his post last weekend showing him in a hockey uniform with a stick towering over a fallen Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada and taunting, “Get up, Governor,” as if Canada really were the 51st state that he says he wants to make it. That one, unsurprisingly, further inflamed international tensions.暴力是特朗普社交媒体动态中反复出现的主题。他热衷于把自己想象成一个硬汉，正面硬刚挡他路的人。他用一把巨锤砸向伊朗。他驾驶宇宙飞船轰炸地球。最令人注目的是他上周末发布的一张图片：他身穿冰球服，手持球杆，高高在上地俯视倒在地上的加拿大总理马克·卡尼，并嘲弄道：“起来，州长。”仿佛加拿大真的是他心心念念的第51个州。毫不意外，这条帖子进一步加剧了国家间的紧张关系。特朗普经常发布图片，把自己塑造成怒视对手的的硬汉。 Alex Kent/The New York TimesAs Mr. Trump surely knew it would. It is hard to imagine any other president picturing himself physically assaulting the leader of an ally. But for Mr. Trump, who has been unable to force Mr. Carney to back down in a tariff fight, the cartoonish image allows him to present himself as winning even when he is not.特朗普当然知道它会产生这样的效果。很难想象还有哪位总统会想象自己对一个盟友领导人动粗。但对于在关税争端中始终无法迫使卡尼让步的特朗普来说，这种漫画式的形象让他即使处于劣势也能把自己塑造成胜利者。Never mind that he may cry foul if anyone else were to picture him as the target of violence. Goaded by Mr. Trump, the Justice Department indicted James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, for a social media post showing seashells spelling out the numbers “86 47,” interpreting the image as a threat to the president.但如果别人把他描绘成暴力目标，他可能会大喊不公。在特朗普的鼓动下，司法部起诉了前联邦调查局局长詹姆斯·科米，原因是后者在社交媒体上发了一条帖子，上面用贝壳拼出数字“86 47”，司法部将其解读为对总统的威胁。“This is truly unhinged behavior from the President of the United States,” Representative Chellie Pingree, a Maine Democrat, wrote online after the Carney post. “And I don’t want to hear ‘oh, it’s just Trump being Trump’ or that he’s ‘trolling.’ Enough. None of this is normal or okay. Republicans cannot keep shrugging this off. Congress, the Cabinet, and everyone around him has a responsibility to stop enabling this dangerous behavior and start asking whether he is fit to hold this office.”“美国总统做出这样的行为，实在是极度失控，”缅因州民主党籍众议员谢莉·平格里在特朗普发布的有关卡尼的帖子后写道。“我不想再听到什么‘哦，这就是特朗普，他一向如此’，或者说他只是在‘引对手上钩’。够了。这一切都不正常，也没有一件是可以接受的。共和党人不能再继续对此耸耸肩、置之不理。国会、内阁以及他身边的所有人都有责任停止纵容这种危险的行为，并开始认真思考：他是否还适合担任这一职务。”The White House shrugged off the criticism. “Truth Social is the most powerful and popular social media platform in the world because it serves as President Trump’s authentic voice, where he communicates directly with the American people and the world without the biased media taking him out of context,” Davis Ingle, a White House spokesman, said in a statement, using the name of the president’s social media platform.白宫对批评不以为意。“Truth Social是世界上最强大、最受欢迎的社交媒体平台，因为它是特朗普总统真实的声音，他在这里直接与美国人民和世界沟通，而不受带有偏见的媒体断章取义的影响，”白宫发言人戴维斯·英格尔在一份声明中说。In fact, by traditional measures, Truth Social is nowhere near as popular as major social media platforms like Facebook or X and its traffic has slumped since last year. But it has effectively become the town hall for Mr. Trump’s MAGA followers and therefore plays an outsize role in American politics. Either posting himself or approving posts crafted by aides, Mr. Trump uses it as his main outlet for presidential messages to the world.事实上，按传统标准衡量，Truth Social远不及Facebook或X等主要社交媒体平台受欢迎，其流量自去年以来也大幅下滑。但它实际上已成为特朗普MAGA追随者的市政厅，因此在美国政治中扮演着超乎寻常的角色。无论是自己发帖还是批准助手起草的帖子，特朗普都将其作为向世界传递总统信息的主要渠道。Last Sunday was a striking day on Truth Social but increasingly typical of the president’s weekend blitzes, when he has fewer staff members around him and more unscheduled time. While at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J., Mr. Trump started posting at 11:54 a.m. and kept returning to his account in staccato bursts throughout the day. At 1:47 p.m., he posted six messages within two minutes. From 2:40 p.m. to 3:43 p.m., he circulated another 27 posts. He continued through the evening, only letting up after his final one of the night at 10:35 p.m.上周日，Truth Social上的活动异常频繁，但这越来越符合总统的周末突击作风——周末他身边的工作人员较少，空闲时间也更多。在新泽西州贝德明斯特的高尔夫俱乐部，特朗普从上午11点54分开始发帖，一整天都断断续续地频繁更新。下午1点47分，他在两分钟内发布了六条消息。从下午2点40分到3点43分，他又转发了27条。他持续到晚上，直到晚上10点35分发出最后一条后才停歇。特朗普有时会利用社交媒体发帖绕开传统媒体。They were the kinds of posts that are common on the internet, just not normally from a head of state — impertinent, insulting, scornful, belligerent and sometimes out-and-out wacky. They offered a Rorschach test for followers, funny to those who admire what they see as Mr. Trump’s wry sense of humor, delusional to those who think he has lost his mind.这些帖子是互联网上司空见惯的那种，只不过通常不会来自一位国家元首——无礼、侮辱、轻蔑、好斗，有时完全荒诞。它们为追随者提供了一场罗夏测试：对欣赏特朗普那种挖苦的幽默的人来说很好笑，对认为他已失去理智的人来说则是妄想。While Mr. Trump’s posts regularly influence domestic politics and foreign policy, he also uses A.I. to promote grandiose visions of himself as a superhero, a pope and at one point last spring a Jesus-like figure. Last weekend’s posts included one that he has circulated before offering his own chart ranking American presidents, with him, naturally, at the top as “The Greatest.” Another post asserted: “He Will Go Down In History As the Greatest President of All Time!”虽然特朗普的帖子经常影响国内政治和外交政策，但他也用人工智能来宣扬自己是超级英雄、教皇，以及去年春天某个时刻甚至是耶稣式人物的宏大幻象。上周末的帖子中有一条他之前也发过，提供了他自己的美国总统排名图表，自然把自己列为榜首“最伟大”。另一条断言：“他将作为有史以来最伟大的总统载入史册！”Mr. Trump, who avoided the draft during the Vietnam War with a diagnosis of bone spurs provided by a doctor who was one of his father’s tenants, particularly enjoys presenting himself as a martial hero.特朗普在越战期间凭借医生（他父亲的租户之一）出具的骨刺诊断躲过了征兵，他特别喜欢把自己塑造成战斗英雄。In an image posted last month, Mr. Trump wore the military uniform that he never wore in real life standing between Generals George S. Patton and Douglas MacArthur. George Washington has become a regular guest in Mr. Trump’s world lately. Sunday’s burst included images of him with the father of the country on horseback and in the Oval Office.在上个月发布的一张图片中，特朗普穿着他在现实生活中从未穿过的军装，站在乔治·巴顿将军和道格拉斯·麦克阿瑟将军之间。乔治·华盛顿近来已成为特朗普世界的常客。周日的连番发帖中包括他与这位国父一起骑马以及在椭圆形办公室的图片。The advent of A.I. has allowed Mr. Trump to go further than the mainly written social media posts of his first term. “Trump has always treated social media as a window into whatever he is thinking at that moment, but A.I. makes that window far more vivid and frankly more disturbing,” said Ms. Matthews, his former press aide. “And it feels like the more difficult reality gets for him, the more A.I. slop he posts.”人工智能的出现让特朗普比第一任期时主要以文字为主的社交媒体帖子走得更远。“特朗普一直把社交媒体当作了解他当时想法的窗口，但人工智能让这个窗口更加生动，坦率地说也更令人不安，”他的前新闻助理马修斯说。“而且感觉对他来说现实越艰难，他发的人工智能垃圾就越多。”今年1月，一场反对特朗普接管格陵兰计划的抗议活动。Mr. Bruesewitz, the former campaign aide, called Mr. Trump an innovator who is paving the way to the future of politics. “President Trump is the first true social media president,” he said. “He has always adapted to the times, using new technology and platforms to take his message straight to the public. His A.I. posts generate enormous attention whenever he hits send.”前竞选助手布鲁塞维茨称特朗普是一位创新者，正在为政治的未来铺路。“特朗普总统是第一位真正的社交媒体总统，”他说。“他一直适应时代，利用新技术和平台把信息直接传达给公众。他的AI帖子每次一发出就引发巨大关注。”No one would debate that they are attention generators. One way or another, that seems to be the point.没有人会否认它们很能引来关注。说到底，这似乎正是重点所在。Peter Baker是《纽约时报》首席白宫记者。特朗普是他报道的第六任美国总统，有时他也撰写将总统和美国政府置于更宏观的背景和历史框架下的分析性文章。翻译：杜然点击查看本文英文版。