<p>华盛顿（美联社）——唐纳德·特朗普总统在周日庆祝 80 岁生日，举办了一场令人瞩目的生日盛会，这在过去曾被认为是不可想象的：在白宫历史悠久的南草坪上举行的笼斗表演。</p>
<p>本周，办公室的严峻现实威胁要掩盖这场奢华的 UFC 综合格斗盛会，参赛者被封闭在一个铁丝网八角笼内，试图用拳打、踢打、劈砍和猛击将对手击倒。</p>
<p>特朗普发现自己被困在一场他帮助发起的不受欢迎且代价高昂的伊朗战争中。结束冲突的协议可能即将达成，但关键细节仍需谈判。与此同时，距离特朗普的生日派对约一英里，工作人员在肯尼迪中心将总统的名字拆除，因为一名法官裁定以特朗普的名字命名已超出界限。</p>
<p>无论如何，总统将走出白宫，身边围绕着内阁领导人、高级政府官员、共和党立法者和 4000 多名在 “爪子” 下的临时竞技场中呐喊的观众，这是一座类似飞船的金属拱门，配备了灯光、音响设备和大屏幕。还有成千上万的人将在附近的椭圆形广场通过大屏幕观看。</p>
<p>“这个活动是独一无二的，令人难以置信。我喜欢它，” UFC 首席执行官达纳·怀特在林肯纪念堂的周五晚间宣传活动中说，届时一对对的斗士在诚实的亚伯拉罕雕像的凝视下为镜头推搡和打斗。</p>
<p>总统试图将周日的活动——包括七场比赛持续到午夜——与庆祝《独立宣言》签署 250 周年的更大庆祝活动联系起来。</p>
<p>但这更倾向于庆祝自己，以至于七国集团工业化国家领导人推迟了他们的会议，以便总统能够参加他的笼斗派对，然后直接飞往法国参加会议。</p>
<p>不过，天气可能会对活动造成重大影响。强雷暴和大雨打乱了周五的林肯纪念堂活动，而周日晚上天气预报也显得不妙。</p>
<p>“我厌倦了听天气预报，” 怀特在周五表示，但他承认他更喜欢将未来的 UFC 活动安排在室内竞技场中。</p>
<h2>与前总统庆祝 80 岁的方式截然不同</h2>
<p>当特朗普的前任乔·拜登总统在 2022 年 11 月庆祝 80 岁生日时，他在白宫举行了一场私人家庭早午餐，充分暴露出事情变化的程度和速度。</p>
<p>当被问及这种对比时，白宫发言人艾莉森·舒斯特表示，这场比赛 “将是美国历史上最娱乐的夜晚之一”，并表示时机恰当。“在国庆日的人民之家举行这一盛会，恰逢我们国家的半个世纪纪念，是一种合适的致敬，” 舒斯特在一份声明中说。</p>
<p>当拜登 80 岁时，他是美国历史上最年长的总统，距离他发起的竞选连任仅几个月，而他最终在与特朗普的灾难性辩论后放弃了竞选，民主党内部对他是否过于年长以应对第二个任期的担忧也在加剧。</p>
<p>特朗普现在已取代拜登成为当选美国总统的最年长者。他在宪法上被禁止再次参选，但仍不断公开玩弄这一想法。尽管民调显示公众对特朗普的心理和身体健康日益怀疑——这让人想起拜登在 80 岁时面临的担忧。</p>
<p>《华盛顿邮报》/ABC 新闻/Ipsos 在 4 月进行的一项民调显示，不到一半的美国成年人认为特朗普具备有效担任总统所需的心理敏锐度或身体健康。</p>
<p>白宫对此进行了反驳，特朗普的前白宫医生、德克萨斯州共和党众议员罗尼·杰克逊发表了长篇声明，称特朗普的 “耐力、专注力和力量都是卓越的，每天都在展现。相反的说法纯属虚构。” 杰克逊补充说，民调的担忧是 “由同样偏见、自由派、仇恨特朗普的媒体传播的，他们完全忽视了拜登总统的绝对认知和身体灾难。”</p>
<p>尽管如此，特朗普在本届任期内已进行了四次公开宣布的体检，白宫医生肖恩·巴巴贝拉最近宣称他 “健康状况良好”。</p>
<h2>‘面包与马戏’——特朗普风格</h2>
<p>UFC 活动恰如其分地比喻了特朗普好斗的政治风格。他对笼斗式政治的热爱与对笼斗本身的热爱一样。</p>
<p>但特朗普也长期以来是政治误导的高手，故意让人们关注与他总统任期无关的事情，以便在情况不佳时转移注意力。</p>
<p>随着伊朗战争的持续，尽管特朗普已多次保证其即将结束，油价居高不下，通货膨胀的担忧重燃，特朗普的工作支持率暴跌——一场与美国历史上任何生日派对都不同的白宫派对无疑是一种转移注意力的手段。</p>
<p>“这一切都是分散注意力，” 康奈尔大学古典学教授迈克·方丹说，他将其比作古罗马帝国的角斗士游戏，参赛者为了公众娱乐而残酷搏斗，以增强统治者的受欢迎程度并平息潜在的动乱。</p>
<p>“这是一种经典策略，” 方丹说。“在古罗马，短语是 ‘面包与马戏’。”</p>
<p>特朗普表示 UFC 正在为此次活动支付费用，尽管其全部费用尚未披露，但国家公园管理局在法庭文件中表示，已投入超过 6000 万美元和数万小时的劳动力，同时七个政府机构 “分配了大量资源和人力。”</p>
<p>UFC 还在周五宣布，将世界自由金融作为此次活动的官方合作伙伴，为周日晚上获胜者创建一个特别的 25 万美元运动员奖金池。这家加密货币公司由特朗普家族共同拥有，由总统的特别外交特使 Steve Witkoff 创立，并由他的儿子 Zach 运营。这一安排进一步模糊了特朗普家族的财务利益与总统优先考虑的活动和建设项目之间的界限，并利用政府资源来实现这些项目。</p>
<p>尽管如此，Fontaine 表示，当谈到个人的华丽风格时，总统在第二任期内倾向于迎合 “硬核男性气概和粗暴斗争” 的趋势，将 UFC 的血腥运动与特朗普标志性的幽默感和持久的表演欲结合在一起。</p>
<p>“特朗普总统在这方面有着一代人的天赋，” 他说。</p>

<p>特朗普总统在白宫庆祝了他的 80 岁生日，举办了一场 UFC 笼斗赛事，这与前任乔·拜登的私人早午餐形成了鲜明对比。此次盛会是在面临重大挑战的背景下举行，包括伊朗持续的冲突、高昂的油价、通货膨胀的担忧以及不断下降的支持率。尽管白宫强调了特朗普的健康状况和活动的娱乐价值，但民调显示公众对他担任公职的适合性持怀疑态度</p>

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump celebrates turning 80 on Sunday with a showstopping birthday spectacle that once would have seemed unfathomable: a cage-fighting show on the storied South Lawn of the White House.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>华盛顿（美联社）——唐纳德·特朗普总统在周日庆祝 80 岁生日，举办了一场令人瞩目的生日盛会，这在过去曾被认为是不可想象的：在白宫历史悠久的南草坪上举行的笼斗表演。</p>
</div><p>This week, the hard realities of the office have threatened to overshadow the ostentatious UFC mixed martial arts extravaganza, where combatants sealed inside a wire-mesh octagon try to punch, kick, chop and pummel each other into submission.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>本周，办公室的严峻现实威胁要掩盖这场奢华的 UFC 综合格斗盛会，参赛者被封闭在一个铁丝网八角笼内，试图用拳打、踢打、劈砍和猛击将对手击倒。</p>
</div><p>Trump has found himself boxed into an unpopular and costly war he helped start in Iran. An agreement to end the conflict could be close, but the crucial details are still to be negotiated. Meanwhile, about a mile from Trump's birthday bash, crews pried the president's name off the Kennedy Center after a judge ruled naming it after Trump had gone too far.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>特朗普发现自己被困在一场他帮助发起的不受欢迎且代价高昂的伊朗战争中。结束冲突的协议可能即将达成，但关键细节仍需谈判。与此同时，距离特朗普的生日派对约一英里，工作人员在肯尼迪中心将总统的名字拆除，因为一名法官裁定以特朗普的名字命名已超出界限。</p>
</div><p>Regardless, the president will walk out of the White House and be surrounded by Cabinet leaders, top administration officials, Republican lawmakers and 4,000-plus spectators screaming themselves hoarse in a temporary arena under &#34; The Claw,&#34; a spaceship-like metal arch fitted with lighting, sound equipment and large screens. Thousands more will be watching on big screens from the nearby Ellipse.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>无论如何，总统将走出白宫，身边围绕着内阁领导人、高级政府官员、共和党立法者和 4000 多名在 “爪子” 下的临时竞技场中呐喊的观众，这是一座类似飞船的金属拱门，配备了灯光、音响设备和大屏幕。还有成千上万的人将在附近的椭圆形广场通过大屏幕观看。</p>
</div><p>&#34;This event is a one of one event, incredible event. I love it,&#34; said UFC chief Dana White, a close friend of the president, during a Friday night hype session at the Lincoln Memorial where pairs of fighters shoved and scuffled for the cameras under the stoic gaze of Honest Abe's marble likeness.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>“这个活动是独一无二的，令人难以置信。我喜欢它，” UFC 首席执行官达纳·怀特在林肯纪念堂的周五晚间宣传活动中说，届时一对对的斗士在诚实的亚伯拉罕雕像的凝视下为镜头推搡和打斗。</p>
</div><p>The president has sought to tie Sunday's event — which features seven fights running past midnight — to larger, months-long celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>总统试图将周日的活动——包括七场比赛持续到午夜——与庆祝《独立宣言》签署 250 周年的更大庆祝活动联系起来。</p>
</div><p>But it is much more geared toward feting himself, so much so that the G7 summit for leaders of industrialized nations pushed back their get-together so that the president could attend his cage-match party and then fly straight to France for the meetings.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>但这更倾向于庆祝自己，以至于七国集团工业化国家领导人推迟了他们的会议，以便总统能够参加他的笼斗派对，然后直接飞往法国参加会议。</p>
</div><p>The weather, though, could put a major damper on things. Strong thunderstorms and heavy lightning disrupted Friday's Lincoln Memorial event, and the forecast for Sunday evening also looks threatening.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>不过，天气可能会对活动造成重大影响。强雷暴和大雨打乱了周五的林肯纪念堂活动，而周日晚上天气预报也显得不妙。</p>
</div><p>&#34;I'm sick and tired of hearing about the weather,&#34; White declared on Friday, before conceding that he'll prefer to hold future UFC events inside arenas only.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>“我厌倦了听天气预报，” 怀特在周五表示，但他承认他更喜欢将未来的 UFC 活动安排在室内竞技场中。</p>
</div><h2>A dramatic departure from how the last president marked his 80th</h2>
<div class="lb-trans"><h2>与前总统庆祝 80 岁的方式截然不同</h2>
</div><p>When Trump's predecessor, President Joe Biden, turned 80 in November 2022, he celebrated with a private family brunch at the White House, laying bare just how much and how quickly things have changed.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>当特朗普的前任乔·拜登总统在 2022 年 11 月庆祝 80 岁生日时，他在白宫举行了一场私人家庭早午餐，充分暴露出事情变化的程度和速度。</p>
</div><p>Asked about the contrast, White House spokesperson Allison Schuster said that the fight &#34;will be one of the most entertaining nights in American history&#34; and said that the timing was appropriate. &#34;Having this spectacle take place at the people's house on Flag Day during our nations' semiquincentennial anniversary is a fitting tribute,&#34; Schuster said in a statement.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>当被问及这种对比时，白宫发言人艾莉森·舒斯特表示，这场比赛 “将是美国历史上最娱乐的夜晚之一”，并表示时机恰当。“在国庆日的人民之家举行这一盛会，恰逢我们国家的半个世纪纪念，是一种合适的致敬，” 舒斯特在一份声明中说。</p>
</div><p>When he turned 80, Biden was the oldest president in U.S. history, and was months away from launching a reelection bid that he would ultimately abandon after a disastrous debate against Trump and mutiny among Democrats concerned he was too old to handle a second term.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>当拜登 80 岁时，他是美国历史上最年长的总统，距离他发起的竞选连任仅几个月，而他最终在与特朗普的灾难性辩论后放弃了竞选，民主党内部对他是否过于年长以应对第二个任期的担忧也在加剧。</p>
</div><p>Trump has now supplanted Biden as the oldest person to be elected U.S. president. He's constitutionally barred from running again, yet constantly toys with the notion publicly. That's despite polls showing rising public skepticism about Trump's mental and physical health — recalling concerns Biden faced as he turned 80.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>特朗普现在已取代拜登成为当选美国总统的最年长者。他在宪法上被禁止再次参选，但仍不断公开玩弄这一想法。尽管民调显示公众对特朗普的心理和身体健康日益怀疑——这让人想起拜登在 80 岁时面临的担忧。</p>
</div><p>A Washington Post/ABC News/Ipsos poll conducted in April found that less than half of U.S. adults think Trump has the mental sharpness or physical health to serve effectively as president.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>《华盛顿邮报》/ABC 新闻/Ipsos 在 4 月进行的一项民调显示，不到一半的美国成年人认为特朗普具备有效担任总统所需的心理敏锐度或身体健康。</p>
</div><p>The White House countered with a lengthy statement from Trump's former White House physician, Texas Republican Rep. Ronny Jackson, saying Trump's &#34;stamina, focus, and strength are exceptional and on display every day. Claims to the contrary are pure fiction.&#34; Jackson added that polling concerns were &#34;being propagated by the same biased, liberal, Trump-hating press that completely ignored the absolute cognitive and physical disaster that was President Biden.&#34;</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>白宫对此进行了反驳，特朗普的前白宫医生、德克萨斯州共和党众议员罗尼·杰克逊发表了长篇声明，称特朗普的 “耐力、专注力和力量都是卓越的，每天都在展现。相反的说法纯属虚构。” 杰克逊补充说，民调的担忧是 “由同样偏见、自由派、仇恨特朗普的媒体传播的，他们完全忽视了拜登总统的绝对认知和身体灾难。”</p>
</div><p>Trump has nonetheless undergone four publicly announced physical examinations this term alone, with White House physician Dr. Sean Barbabella recently declaring him in &#34;excellent health.&#34;</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>尽管如此，特朗普在本届任期内已进行了四次公开宣布的体检，白宫医生肖恩·巴巴贝拉最近宣称他 “健康状况良好”。</p>
</div><h2>'Bread and circuses' — Trump-style</h2>
<div class="lb-trans"><h2>‘面包与马戏’——特朗普风格</h2>
</div><p>The UFC event is an apt metaphor for Trump's pugilistic political style. He is as big a fan of cage-match-style politics as he is of cage-fighting itself.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>UFC 活动恰如其分地比喻了特朗普好斗的政治风格。他对笼斗式政治的热爱与对笼斗本身的热爱一样。</p>
</div><p>But Trump has also long been a master of political misdirection, purposely presenting people with something other than his presidency to focus on when things aren't going well.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>但特朗普也长期以来是政治误导的高手，故意让人们关注与他总统任期无关的事情，以便在情况不佳时转移注意力。</p>
</div><p>With the war in Iran grinding on despite weeks of assurances from Trump that its end is nigh, gas prices staying high, renewed concerns about inflation and plummeting job approval ratings for Trump — a White House birthday party unlike anything America has ever seen is definitely a diversion.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>随着伊朗战争的持续，尽管特朗普已多次保证其即将结束，油价居高不下，通货膨胀的担忧重燃，特朗普的工作支持率暴跌——一场与美国历史上任何生日派对都不同的白宫派对无疑是一种转移注意力的手段。</p>
</div><p>&#34;This is all distraction,&#34; said Mike Fontaine, a classics professor at Cornell University, who likened it to the gladiatorial games of Imperial Rome, when combatants brutalized each other for public entertainment meant to bolster rulers' popularity and quell potential unrest.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>“这一切都是分散注意力，” 康奈尔大学古典学教授迈克·方丹说，他将其比作古罗马帝国的角斗士游戏，参赛者为了公众娱乐而残酷搏斗，以增强统治者的受欢迎程度并平息潜在的动乱。</p>
</div><p>&#34;This is a classic strategy,&#34; Fontaine said. &#34;In ancient Rome, the phrase would be, 'bread and circuses.'&#34;</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>“这是一种经典策略，” 方丹说。“在古罗马，短语是 ‘面包与马戏’。”</p>
</div><p>Trump says the UFC is paying for the event and while its full costs haven't been divulged, the National Park Service said in a court filing that $60-plus million and tens of thousands of hours of labor have gone into it, while seven government agencies have &#34;allocated significant resources and manpower.&#34;</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>特朗普表示 UFC 正在为此次活动支付费用，尽管其全部费用尚未披露，但国家公园管理局在法庭文件中表示，已投入超过 6000 万美元和数万小时的劳动力，同时七个政府机构 “分配了大量资源和人力。”</p>
</div><p>UFC also announced on Friday that it was adding as an official partner for the event World Liberty Financial to create a special $250,000 athlete bonus pool for Sunday night's winners. The cryptocurrency company is co-owned by the Trump family, founded with the president's special diplomatic envoy Steve Witkoff and run by his son, Zach. The arrangement further blurs lines between the Trump family's financial interests and the events and construction projects the president has prioritized and used government resources to pull off.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>UFC 还在周五宣布，将世界自由金融作为此次活动的官方合作伙伴，为周日晚上获胜者创建一个特别的 25 万美元运动员奖金池。这家加密货币公司由特朗普家族共同拥有，由总统的特别外交特使 Steve Witkoff 创立，并由他的儿子 Zach 运营。这一安排进一步模糊了特朗普家族的财务利益与总统优先考虑的活动和建设项目之间的界限，并利用政府资源来实现这些项目。</p>
</div><p>Still, Fontaine said that when it comes to a personal flair for pageantry, the president's second-term tendency to lean into &#34;hardcore masculinity and brute fighting&#34; is marrying the UFC's blood sport with Trump's trademark humor and enduring sense of showmanship.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>尽管如此，Fontaine 表示，当谈到个人的华丽风格时，总统在第二任期内倾向于迎合 “硬核男性气概和粗暴斗争” 的趋势，将 UFC 的血腥运动与特朗普标志性的幽默感和持久的表演欲结合在一起。</p>
</div><p>&#34;President Trump has a once-in-a-generation talent for this stuff,&#34; he said.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>“特朗普总统在这方面有着一代人的天赋，” 他说。</p>
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Trump turns 80 with a showstopping spectacle of cage fights at the White House. But big issues loom

- 特朗普在白宫南草坪庆祝 80 岁生日，举办了 UFC 笼斗表演。  
- 该活动旨在转移人们对伊朗战争等严峻现实的注意。  
- 政府资源被大量投入，活动费用尚未披露。

特朗普在白宫以一场引人注目的笼斗表演庆祝 80 岁生日，但重大问题依然存在