Name: 腐敗的狂歡節報告顯示特朗普利用總統職位榨取急需的救助金 ('Carnival of corruption': Report shows Trump milks presidency for badly needed bailout)
Uploaded: 2025-07-04T07:57:39.000Z
Duration: 4 min 49 s

Fourteen years ago, way before he rode down that escalator in Trump Tower, Donald Trump was the subject of a Comedy Central roast.

14 年前，在唐納德-特朗普從特朗普大廈的自動扶梯上走下來之前，他曾是喜劇中心的烤肉對象。

Comedians and other celebrities get together to tell the most insulting jokes they can think of about the roasty, all while that person sits there and has to just smile and take all the abuse.

喜劇演員和其他名人聚集在一起，講他們能想到的最侮辱 "被蹂躪者 "的笑話，而 "被蹂躪者 "只能坐在那裡，微笑著接受所有的謾罵。

Donald Trump sat there and smiled rather unconvincingly, I would say.

唐納德-特朗普坐在那裡，笑得很不自然。

Well, person after person made fun of his hair, his weight, his sex life, his family, his budding presidential aspirations.

一個又一個人取笑他的頭髮、體重、性生活、家庭，還有他萌生的總統抱負。

But apparently there was one thing that no one was allowed to joke about.

但顯然，有一件事是不允許任何人開玩笑的。

A writer for the event and one of the comedians who roasted Trump both said that Trump's one rule was, don't say I have less money than I say I do.

活動的一位撰稿人和一位給特朗普烤肉的喜劇演員都說，特朗普的一條規則是：不要說我的錢比我說的少。

從字面上看，其他任何事情都是公平的。

He's always been incredibly sensitive about the perception of his wealth.

他對自己的財富觀一直非常敏感。

And of course, we would all soon learn, too late as it turned out, that Donald Trump's image of immense business acumen, success and wealth is a mirage.

當然，我們很快就會知道，唐納德-特朗普的巨大商業智慧、成功和財富形象只是海市蜃樓，這一切都太晚了。

I mean, during his first term in the White House, the New York Times reported that far from being a self-made business genius, Trump got tens of millions of dollars from his father, blew through it all in a series of failed businesses, and that has vaunted real estate empire, has always been a black hole of financial losses, that he is constantly scrambling to keep afloat.

我的意思是，在他入主白宮的第一個任期內，《紐約時報》報道稱，特朗普遠不是一個白手起家的商業天才，他從父親那裡得到了數千萬美元，卻在一系列失敗的生意中血本無歸，而他所吹噓的房地產帝國，一直都是一個財務虧損的黑洞，他一直都在努力維持這個帝國。

And now the New York Times is out with a new piece based on a review of 2,000, 2,000 of Trump's financial documents that shares some, I would say, pretty eye-popping insights into the roller coaster of Trump's financial circumstances.

現在，《紐約時報》根據對特朗普 2000 多份財務文件的審查，發表了一篇新文章，分享了一些令人瞠目的見解，我想說的是，這些見解揭示了特朗普雲霄飛車般的財務狀況。

I mean, the reporting reels that after his first term, Trump's financial situation only got worse.

我的意思是，有報道稱，特朗普第一任期結束後，他的財務狀況每況愈下。

At his signature Trump Tower in New York, the escalators are now roped off because they don't go anywhere.

在他位於紐約的標誌性建築特朗普大廈，自動扶梯已被封鎖，因為它們哪兒也去不了。

All the luxury retailers that used to pay Trump rent are gone.

所有曾經為特朗普支付租金的奢侈品零售商都已不復存在。

His office tower on Wall Street is a quarter vacant and its revenue is millions short of what he needs just for mortgage payments.

他在華爾街的辦公樓有四分之一空置，收入僅用於支付抵押貸款就少了數百萬。

At Trump Tower in Chicago, 70,000 square feet of retail space has been empty ever since it was finished 16 years ago. 16 years.

在芝加哥特朗普大廈，7 萬平方英尺的零售空間自 16 年前竣工以來一直空著。16 年了

Even when Trump sold his infamous DC hotel a couple years ago for an impressive sum, he still managed to lose money on the project.

即使幾年前特朗普以驚人的價格出售了他聲名狼藉的華盛頓特區酒店，他仍然在這個項目上虧了錢。

Things were pretty grim, that's the point, for Donald Trump and his family business.

對於唐納德-特朗普和他的家族企業來說，情況非常嚴峻。

And then he won the presidency a second time and everything miraculously began to change.

然後，他第二次贏得了總統職位，一切奇蹟般地開始改變。

He got multiple foreign licensing deals, including several in Saudi Arabia and several Saudi investments in his golf courses.

他獲得了多項外國許可證交易，包括沙特阿拉伯的幾項交易，以及沙特對其高爾夫球場的幾項投資。

A parade of Trump-branded products from shoes to guitars to Bibles to fragrances to phones and, of course, the hard pivot to cryptocurrency, something Trump called a scam just a few years ago.

從鞋子、吉他、聖經、香水到手機，特朗普的品牌產品層出不窮，當然，他還狠狠地轉向了加密貨幣，而就在幾年前，特朗普還稱加密貨幣為騙局。

As The Times put it, many of the deals open multiple channels for anyone to funnel cash to a sitting president, often in ways that are untraceable.

正如《泰晤士報》所說，許多交易為任何人向在任總統輸送現金開闢了多種管道，而且往往是以無法追蹤的方式。

We've all watched this carnival of corruption unfold and we have all marveled at the eagerness of the Trump family to use his office to line his pockets.

我們都目睹了這場腐敗狂歡的上演，我們都驚歎於特朗普家族利用職權中飽私囊的急切心態。

But what The Times reports is that we may be missing part of the story here.

但《泰晤士報》的報道指出，我們可能忽略了故事的一部分。

If we see this all as just a gleeful money grab, bad as that is, of course, here's what they said,  An analysis by The New York Times of thousands of pages of internal Trump organization documents filed in one of the legal actions against him suggests a more urgent motivation for Mr. Trump's behavior, a need rather than simply a desire for easy money to keep his empire intact.

如果我們把這一切都看成是一場幸災樂禍的金錢攫取，當然這很糟糕，但他們是這樣說的：《紐約時報》對特朗普組織在針對他的一項法律訴訟中提交的數千頁內部文件進行的分析表明，特朗普先生的行為有一個更迫切的動機，那就是他需要而不僅僅是為了輕鬆賺錢，以保持他的帝國完好無損。

And, you know, it's bad enough to have a president who just seems to get a kick out of squeezing every penny he can from his office, but it's definitely worse to have a president who feels like he has to squeeze every penny he can from his office because his businesses are in such dire straits.

要知道，有一位總統似乎對從自己的辦公室裡榨取每一分錢都樂此不疲，這已經夠糟糕的了，但如果有一位總統覺得他必須從自己的辦公室裡榨取每一分錢，因為他的企業正處於水深火熱之中，那就絕對更糟糕了。

That's like the definition of being compromised.

I will tell you that Eric Trump, who runs his father's businesses, did give The New York Times a statement for this article.

我要告訴大家的是，埃裡克-特朗普（Eric Trump）經營著他父親的生意，他確實為這篇文章向《紐約時報》發表了聲明。

He said in part this, Hard to argue that.

他的部分話是這樣說的，這一點很難爭辯。

The Times reports that the new cash has already helped solve old problems.

泰晤士報》報道說，新現金已經幫助解決了老問題。

So just remember, even as he is tanking the US economy, which he is definitely doing, even as he is ripping health care away from millions, he does still seem to have a knack for using his job to make money for himself.

是以，請記住，即使他正在破壞美國經濟（他肯定正在這樣做），即使他正在剝奪數百萬人的醫療保健，他似乎仍然有利用工作為自己賺錢的訣竅。