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特朗普被纽约背叛,曼哈顿情节终成梦魇

特朗普被纽约背叛,曼哈顿情节终成梦魇

美联社 2023-04-06
特㓪普即将回到这个令他声名雀起的地方,而这座他深爱的城市,也即将给他带来报应。

他,是一个与纽约有着千丝万缕的联系的男人。他是这座城市各大传媒的最爱,这里有一栋大楼甚至以他的名字命名,他骨子里渗透着纽约人的傲慢与自信。今天,这个男人即将回到这个令他声名雀起的地方,而这座他深爱的城市,也即将给他带来报应。

他先是遭到了选民的拒绝,然后是抗议者的攻击,接着是陪审团的训斥。现在纽约又有一样新东西印着特朗普的名字——第71543-23号起诉书。

“他想待在曼哈顿,他喜欢曼哈顿。他有一种曼哈顿情节。”常年追随他的特朗普集团副总裁芭芭拉·雷斯说。“我不知道他是否接受了现实,也不知道他是否相信这一点——但是纽约已经背叛了他。”

特朗普的任何一段恋情,都没有他对纽约的爱更持久。除了纽约,世界上没有任何地方配得上他的古怪和浮夸。他对纽约无回报的爱颇有莎翁式的悲剧色彩,但比这更悲剧的是,这位墙倒万人推的“前总统”已经成了这座城市的反面英雄。

特朗普是在纽约的皇后区出生和长大的,他的父亲是一位房地产开发商,他的项目主要集中在皇后区和布鲁克林区。但是特朗普从小就渴望渡过东河,在曼哈顿扬名立万。他把破旧的准将酒店改造成了金碧辉煌的君悦酒店,从而在曼哈顿站稳了脚跟。他经常与政商大佬和娱乐界名流同框,时不时出现在纽约54俱乐部等热门地点,通过不间断地吸引媒体报道,确保自己始终成为舆论的焦点。

在“贪婪无罪”的80年代,特朗普已成了纽约的象征。在这个以世界中心自居的城市,特朗普更自认为是纽约的国王。

罗格斯大学教授、《美国总统内幕史》一书作者大卫·格林伯格指出:“在特朗普的成长过程中,他对那些比他名气更大、财富更多、知名度更高的人充满怨恨。而在曼哈顿的成功——比如建设特朗普大厦,或者成为80年代的曼哈顿社交名流,这些对他来说意义重大。”

正所谓“一将功成万骨枯”。特朗普留下了一堆没付的账单,一大群被抛弃的工人,和无数普通的纽约人,这些人早已看穿了他无耻的自我推销。

他可能是一个独特的人物,但这座城市的800万人中,每个人都有自己的故事,他归根结底也只是芸芸众生中的一个。

这么多年过去了,特朗普在纽约的生活一直继续着,就像这座日新月异的城市。他结婚又离婚,城市里无数摩天大楼拔地而起,无数企业注册又破产。正是“眼看他起高楼,眼看他楼塌了。”

他从来不是一个普通的纽约人——早上通勤挤地铁,在街头小贩那里买热狗的那种。但在很多人眼中,他仍然是一个无伤大雅的存在。

但是,当他连续多年造谣奥巴马的出生地,特别是他在2015年6月16日宣布自己将竞选美国总统以后,纽约的很多人对他的尖酸刻薄已经失去了耐心。

在洛克菲勒中心举办的《周六夜现场》上,特朗普成了节目的笑柄。而在华尔道夫酒店举办的一场庆典上,他也成了人们吐槽的对象。对于这座城市的很多人来说,他们对特朗普的厌恶已经变成了仇恨。

即使是在共和党内部,很多共和党人也把他当作一个满嘴胡诌的老骗子。特朗普虽然赢得了该州的共和党初选,但并未说服曼哈顿的共和党选民。

福特汉姆大学的政治学家克里斯蒂娜·格里尔表示:“他已经不仅仅是一个电视节目上的冒牌专家了。人们认为,这个人是真有可能将这个国家乃至这个世界引向一个错误的方向的。”

2016年的大选之夜,贾维茨中心里的民主党人在默默流泪,因为希拉里的胜选派对无法举行了。而在城市另一边的希尔顿酒店里,特朗普的支持者们则正在为他的意外胜选而狂欢。虽然纽约人并不喜欢特朗普,但他们的不喜欢毫无意义。特朗普的脸被投射到了帝国大厦的正面,当地人只得努力消化他即将成为总统的事实。

接下来的几天,各路政客和名流摩肩接踵地前往特朗普大厦,朝见这位候任总统。而在接下来的几周里,关于他将成为一个怎样的总统的预测铺天盖地。

当时有一种猜测是,这位总统将频繁穿梭于纽约和华府之间。后来有消息称,特朗普的妻子和小儿子不会立即搬到白宫,于是人们更加坚信,特朗普不可能完全离开这座造就了他的城市。

但特朗普就是特朗普,在他任美国总统期间,他带来了一个又一个争议,打破了一个又一个常态。纽约则成了抵抗之都,不停地发生各种大规模抗议活动。

他梦想中的城市,已经不再是他可以称之为“家”的地方。

“纽约已经在地狱里了。”他在临近2020年选举日时说。

在清点选票时,拜登在曼哈顿的支持者达到了特朗普的7倍,而且选举人团票也一边倒地支持拜登。等到特朗普的任期结束时,他自己煽动了一场失败的暴乱,然后离开了华盛顿。但这时纽约也显然不再适合他居住了。

像很多纽约人一样,他退休后去了佛罗里达。

现在,就算他回到北方,大部分时间也待在新泽西州贝德明斯特的俱乐部里。这下,他与心心念念的曼哈顿再次被一条河隔开。

据《纽约邮报》报道,特朗普卸任后第一次回到曼哈顿时,只有一个人在特朗普大厦外面等着看他一眼。甚至连抗议者都懒得理他了。

起诉特朗普的曼哈顿大陪审团成员包括一些支持城市通行权者,和其他一些负有陪审义务的公民。如果纽约大陪审团坚持以前的做法,那么它的成员将涵盖不同社区、收入和背景,至少这些角色是很适合上电视的。

随着特朗普被起诉的消息传出,他与纽约的相爱相杀史终于有了即将剧终的感觉。就连曾帮助特朗普入主白宫的鲁伯特·默多克的《华盛顿邮报》也抛弃了他。这家报纸曾以《我最好的一次性爱经验》为题,报道过特朗普的婚外情,配图是特朗普那张得意洋洋的脸。但上周《华盛顿邮报》在头版称他“精神错乱”,并用大字称他“彻底疯了”。

特朗普曾吹嘘说,他就算在第五大道中间开枪打死一个人,人们也会继续喜欢他。但是现在,即使他在纽约的街上发现金,恐怕也无法赢得大多数当地人的支持。

特朗普将曼哈顿大陪审团的行为斥为“骗局”和“政治迫害”,并否认自己做错了任何事。他说,此事完全是民主党人的谎言和迫害,目的就是阻止他重返白宫。

这一次在法院外面,也有很多人在等着他,除了各路媒体,还有为数不多的几个本地名流,比如花样滑冰选手玛尼·哈拉萨,她身穿豹纹紧身衣,戴着猫耳朵,还带着一捆象征“封口费”的假钞票。上周五,她独自一人站在法院门外,庆祝纽约最著名的儿子被起诉。

“纽约人精神上都在这里了。”她说:“我觉得我代表了大多数人的心情。”(财富中文网)

美联社撰稿人Bobby Caina Calvan对本文也有贡献。

译者:朴成奎

他,是一个与纽约有着千丝万缕的联系的男人。他是这座城市各大传媒的最爱,这里有一栋大楼甚至以他的名字命名,他骨子里渗透着纽约人的傲慢与自信。今天,这个男人即将回到这个令他声名雀起的地方,而这座他深爱的城市,也即将给他带来报应。

他先是遭到了选民的拒绝,然后是抗议者的攻击,接着是陪审团的训斥。现在纽约又有一样新东西印着特朗普的名字——第71543-23号起诉书。

“他想待在曼哈顿,他喜欢曼哈顿。他有一种曼哈顿情节。”常年追随他的特朗普集团副总裁芭芭拉·雷斯说。“我不知道他是否接受了现实,也不知道他是否相信这一点——但是纽约已经背叛了他。”

特朗普的任何一段恋情,都没有他对纽约的爱更持久。除了纽约,世界上没有任何地方配得上他的古怪和浮夸。他对纽约无回报的爱颇有莎翁式的悲剧色彩,但比这更悲剧的是,这位墙倒万人推的“前总统”已经成了这座城市的反面英雄。

特朗普是在纽约的皇后区出生和长大的,他的父亲是一位房地产开发商,他的项目主要集中在皇后区和布鲁克林区。但是特朗普从小就渴望渡过东河,在曼哈顿扬名立万。他把破旧的准将酒店改造成了金碧辉煌的君悦酒店,从而在曼哈顿站稳了脚跟。他经常与政商大佬和娱乐界名流同框,时不时出现在纽约54俱乐部等热门地点,通过不间断地吸引媒体报道,确保自己始终成为舆论的焦点。

在“贪婪无罪”的80年代,特朗普已成了纽约的象征。在这个以世界中心自居的城市,特朗普更自认为是纽约的国王。

罗格斯大学教授、《美国总统内幕史》一书作者大卫·格林伯格指出:“在特朗普的成长过程中,他对那些比他名气更大、财富更多、知名度更高的人充满怨恨。而在曼哈顿的成功——比如建设特朗普大厦,或者成为80年代的曼哈顿社交名流,这些对他来说意义重大。”

正所谓“一将功成万骨枯”。特朗普留下了一堆没付的账单,一大群被抛弃的工人,和无数普通的纽约人,这些人早已看穿了他无耻的自我推销。

他可能是一个独特的人物,但这座城市的800万人中,每个人都有自己的故事,他归根结底也只是芸芸众生中的一个。

这么多年过去了,特朗普在纽约的生活一直继续着,就像这座日新月异的城市。他结婚又离婚,城市里无数摩天大楼拔地而起,无数企业注册又破产。正是“眼看他起高楼,眼看他楼塌了。”

他从来不是一个普通的纽约人——早上通勤挤地铁,在街头小贩那里买热狗的那种。但在很多人眼中,他仍然是一个无伤大雅的存在。

但是,当他连续多年造谣奥巴马的出生地,特别是他在2015年6月16日宣布自己将竞选美国总统以后,纽约的很多人对他的尖酸刻薄已经失去了耐心。

在洛克菲勒中心举办的《周六夜现场》上,特朗普成了节目的笑柄。而在华尔道夫酒店举办的一场庆典上,他也成了人们吐槽的对象。对于这座城市的很多人来说,他们对特朗普的厌恶已经变成了仇恨。

即使是在共和党内部,很多共和党人也把他当作一个满嘴胡诌的老骗子。特朗普虽然赢得了该州的共和党初选,但并未说服曼哈顿的共和党选民。

福特汉姆大学的政治学家克里斯蒂娜·格里尔表示:“他已经不仅仅是一个电视节目上的冒牌专家了。人们认为,这个人是真有可能将这个国家乃至这个世界引向一个错误的方向的。”

2016年的大选之夜,贾维茨中心里的民主党人在默默流泪,因为希拉里的胜选派对无法举行了。而在城市另一边的希尔顿酒店里,特朗普的支持者们则正在为他的意外胜选而狂欢。虽然纽约人并不喜欢特朗普,但他们的不喜欢毫无意义。特朗普的脸被投射到了帝国大厦的正面,当地人只得努力消化他即将成为总统的事实。

接下来的几天,各路政客和名流摩肩接踵地前往特朗普大厦,朝见这位候任总统。而在接下来的几周里,关于他将成为一个怎样的总统的预测铺天盖地。

当时有一种猜测是,这位总统将频繁穿梭于纽约和华府之间。后来有消息称,特朗普的妻子和小儿子不会立即搬到白宫,于是人们更加坚信,特朗普不可能完全离开这座造就了他的城市。

但特朗普就是特朗普,在他任美国总统期间,他带来了一个又一个争议,打破了一个又一个常态。纽约则成了抵抗之都,不停地发生各种大规模抗议活动。

他梦想中的城市,已经不再是他可以称之为“家”的地方。

“纽约已经在地狱里了。”他在临近2020年选举日时说。

在清点选票时,拜登在曼哈顿的支持者达到了特朗普的7倍,而且选举人团票也一边倒地支持拜登。等到特朗普的任期结束时,他自己煽动了一场失败的暴乱,然后离开了华盛顿。但这时纽约也显然不再适合他居住了。

像很多纽约人一样,他退休后去了佛罗里达。

现在,就算他回到北方,大部分时间也待在新泽西州贝德明斯特的俱乐部里。这下,他与心心念念的曼哈顿再次被一条河隔开。

据《纽约邮报》报道,特朗普卸任后第一次回到曼哈顿时,只有一个人在特朗普大厦外面等着看他一眼。甚至连抗议者都懒得理他了。

起诉特朗普的曼哈顿大陪审团成员包括一些支持城市通行权者,和其他一些负有陪审义务的公民。如果纽约大陪审团坚持以前的做法,那么它的成员将涵盖不同社区、收入和背景,至少这些角色是很适合上电视的。

随着特朗普被起诉的消息传出,他与纽约的相爱相杀史终于有了即将剧终的感觉。就连曾帮助特朗普入主白宫的鲁伯特·默多克的《华盛顿邮报》也抛弃了他。这家报纸曾以《我最好的一次性爱经验》为题,报道过特朗普的婚外情,配图是特朗普那张得意洋洋的脸。但上周《华盛顿邮报》在头版称他“精神错乱”,并用大字称他“彻底疯了”。

特朗普曾吹嘘说,他就算在第五大道中间开枪打死一个人,人们也会继续喜欢他。但是现在,即使他在纽约的街上发现金,恐怕也无法赢得大多数当地人的支持。

特朗普将曼哈顿大陪审团的行为斥为“骗局”和“政治迫害”,并否认自己做错了任何事。他说,此事完全是民主党人的谎言和迫害,目的就是阻止他重返白宫。

这一次在法院外面,也有很多人在等着他,除了各路媒体,还有为数不多的几个本地名流,比如花样滑冰选手玛尼·哈拉萨,她身穿豹纹紧身衣,戴着猫耳朵,还带着一捆象征“封口费”的假钞票。上周五,她独自一人站在法院门外,庆祝纽约最著名的儿子被起诉。

“纽约人精神上都在这里了。”她说:“我觉得我代表了大多数人的心情。”(财富中文网)

美联社撰稿人Bobby Caina Calvan对本文也有贡献。

译者:朴成奎

His name has been plastered on this city’s tabloids, bolted to its buildings and cemented to a special breed of brash New York confidence. Now, with Donald Trump due to return to the place that put him on the map, the city he loved is poised to deliver his comeuppance.

Rejected by its voters, ostracized by its protesters and now rebuked by its jurors, the people of New York have one more thing on which to splash Trump’s name: Indictment No. 71543-23.

“He wanted to be in Manhattan. He loved Manhattan. He had a connection to Manhattan,” says Barbara Res, a longtime employee of the former president who was a vice president at the Trump Organization. “I don’t know that he has accepted it and I don’t know that he believes it, but New York turned on him.”

None of Trump’s romances have lasted longer than his courtship of New York. No place else could match his blend of ostentatious and outlandish. His love of the city going unrequited is Shakespearean enough, but Trump took it a step further, rising to the presidency only to become a hometown antihero.

Trump was born and raised in Queens to a real estate developer father whose projects were largely in Queens and Brooklyn. But the younger Trump ached to cross the East River and make his name in Manhattan. He gained a foothold with his transformation of the rundown Commodore Hotel into a glittering Grand Hyatt and ensured a spotlight on himself by appearing at the side of politicians and celebrities, popping up at Studio 54 and other hot spots and coaxing near-constant media coverage.

By the greed-is-good 1980s, he was a New York fixture. And in a city that prides itself as the center of the world, Trump saw himself as king.

“Trump grew up with a great deal of resentment toward others who he thought had more fame, wealth, or popularity,” says David Greenberg, a Rutgers University professor who wrote “Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency.” “Making it in Manhattan — building Trump Tower and becoming a fixture of the Manhattan social scene in the 1980s — meant a lot to him.”

The feeling was never truly mutual, though. Trump left a trail of unpaid bills, jilted workers and everyday New Yorkers who saw through his shameless self-promotion.

He may have been a singular character, but in a city of 8 million stories, his was just another one.

So, for years, Trump’s life here continued as the city raced on around him. Marriages came and went. Skyscrapers rose. Bankruptcies were filed. Trump flickered in and out of fame’s upper echelon.

He may never have been a common New Yorker, packed in the subway on the morning commute or grabbing a hot dog from a street vendor, but for many he remained a benign, if outsized, presence.

That began changing with years of bizarre, racially-fueled lies about Barack Obama’s birthplace, and by the time he descended the golden escalator at Trump Tower on June 16, 2015, to announce his presidential bid, many in his hometown had little patience for the vitriol he spewed.

Rockefeller Center played host to a weekly “Saturday Night Live” that made him a mockery, and at a Waldorf-Astoria gala, he elicited groans. In vast swaths of the city, distaste for Trump turned to hatred.

Even among Republicans, many saw him as believable as a Gucci bag on Canal Street. Trump won the state’s Republican primary, but couldn’t convince GOP voters in Manhattan.

“He’s no longer just this TV show charlatan. People see this man is actually going to lead the country and the world in the wrong direction,” says Christina Greer, a political scientist at Fordham University.

On Election Night 2016, tears flowed at the Javits Center, where Hillary Clinton’s victory party never materialized, while giddy supporters of Trump reveled in his surprise win across town in a Hilton ballroom. New Yorkers’ rebuke of their native son meant nothing. His face was projected unto the face of the Empire State Building as locals digested the fact that he would be president.

In the days that followed, a curious parade of politicians and celebrities journeyed to Trump Tower to meet the president-elect and, for weeks after, predictions about his presidency were rampant.

Among the musings of observers was speculation of a commuter president shuttling between New York and Washington. When word emerged that his wife and young son wouldn’t immediately move to the White House, it gave credence to the idea that Trump could never fully part with the city that made him.

But Trump continued being Trump, his presidency gave way to one controversy and broken norm after another, and New York become a capital of the resistance, giving birth to persistent mass protests.

The city of his dreams was no longer a place he could call home.

“New York has gone to hell,” he said as Election Day 2020 neared.

When the ballots were counted, Manhattan had seven times as many supporters of Joe Biden than those for Trump, and this time the Electoral College followed. When Trump’s presidency ended and he left Washington after the violent insurrection he incited, it was clear New York would be inhospitable.

Like droves of New Yorkers before him, he retired to Florida.

When he returns north now, he spends most of his time at his club in Bedminster, New Jersey. The man who long tried to eschew his bridge-and-tunnel past is again separated from Manhattan by a river.

On his first return to Manhattan after leaving office, the New York Post reported a single person waited outside Trump Tower to catch a glimpse. Even protesters couldn’t be bothered with him anymore.

His rebuke came from New Yorkers taking part in a right-of-passage for city dwellers, jury duty, and if it fit the mold of prior grand juries, it brought together a quintessential Manhattan cross-section, from neighborhoods, incomes and backgrounds different enough to ensure a cast of characters fit for TV.

With word of Trump’s indictment now out, the story of his deteriorating romance with New York is gaining a sense of finality. Even the Post, part of the Rupert Murdoch media empire that helped Trump win the White House to begin with, has abandoned him. The paper that once documented his affair with a screaming “Best Sex I’ve Ever Had” headline beside Trump’s smirking face, last week called him “deranged” on a front page on which he was branded “Bat Hit Crazy” in huge letters.

Trump once bragged he could shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue and remain popular. Today, he could hand out fifties in New York and still not win the support of most locals.

He has dismissed the grand jury’s actions as a “scam” and a “persecution” and denied he did anything wrong. Democrats, he says, are lying and cheating to hurt his campaign to return to the White House.

Outside the courthouse that awaits him, the spectacle has largely been confined to the hordes of media. Among the few regular New Yorkers to make the trip there was Marni Halasa, a figure skater who showed up in a leopard print leotard, cat ears and wads of fake bills strung into a “hush money” boa. She stood alone outside Friday to celebrate the indictment of one of her city’s most famous sons.

“New Yorkers are here in spirit,” she says, “and I feel like I’m representing most of them.”

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Associated Press writer Bobby Caina Calvan contributed to this report.

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