特朗普的白宫欢迎强人领袖习近平，却拒绝美国记者

PETER BAKER2026年9月25日

At the White House gate, a throng of Chinese journalists was being admitted onto the grounds of the Executive Mansion to cover the visit of President Xi Jinping. Out on the street, several American journalists were blocked from entering the White House on the orders of President Trump.在白宫门口，一群中国记者正获准进入行政官邸，报道习近平主席的访问。而在外面的街道上，数名美国记者却因特朗普总统的命令无法入内。The scene on Pennsylvania Avenue on Thursday morning captured a surreal week in the life of Washington. The president of the United States barred American reporters because he labeled them a threat to national security, while welcoming Chinese reporters who answer to the communist dictatorship in Beijing.周四上午宾夕法尼亚大道上的这一幕捕捉到了华盛顿这一周荒诞离奇的政治现实。美国总统将美国记者拒之门外，称他们是国家安全的威胁，同时却欢迎那些听命于北京共产党独裁政权的中国记者。This would be the same president who is running government-paid television advertising vowing to stop the United States from becoming socialist or communist in the same week that he held a friendly meeting with the democratic socialist mayor of New York and rolled out a literal red carpet for the communist president of China. The same president who is waging economic war against the prime minister of Canada while inviting the president of Russia to visit his Florida golf club.同样是这位总统，一边用政府经费投放电视广告，信誓旦旦地宣称要阻止美国变成社会主义或共产主义，一边却在同一周与纽约的民主社会主义市长友好会面，还为中国的这位共产党领导人实实在在地铺上了红地毯。同样也是这位总统，一边对加拿大总理发动经济战，一边却邀请俄罗斯总统访问他位于佛罗里达的高尔夫俱乐部。

In the epic contest between democracy and autocracy, Mr. Trump has long given the impression that he may be on the other side. But rarely has that been brought home as starkly as this week, as he punishes news outlets for being too “negative” about him while embracing Mr. Xi and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, two of the world’s leading authoritarians whose governments brutally suppress free speech.在民主与专制这场旷日持久的较量中，特朗普向来给人的印象是，他似乎更倾向于站在专制那一边。但这种印象很少像本周这样赤裸裸地呈现出来：他一边因为新闻机构对自己的报道过于“负面”而惩罚它们，一边却热情拥抱习近平和俄罗斯总统普京——这两位都是世界上主要的威权主义者，其政府残酷压制言论自由。Mr. Xi’s arrival at the White House was celebrated with pomp and circumstance that were not covered by American television networks, which were still boycotting the White House press pool until Mr. Trump’s staff commits in writing to letting CNN cameras back into the rotation. Reporters from CNN, MS NOW and Politico who were initially barred from entering the White House on Thursday morning despite a court order were allowed in later in the day, but by late afternoon Mr. Trump’s staff had still not permitted CNN back into the pool that provides footage of the president every day.习近平在白宫受到隆重欢迎，但美国的各家电视网却没有报道这一盛况，因为它们仍在抵制白宫记者团，直到特朗普的工作人员以书面形式承诺让CNN的摄像机重回轮值。周四上午，尽管有法院命令，CNN、MS NOW和Politico的记者起初仍被禁止进入白宫；当天晚些时候，他们获准进入。但截至下午晚些时候，特朗普的工作人员仍未允许CNN重新加入每日拍摄总统日常活动、供各方共享画面的记者团。广告Even as Mr. Trump fumed that his carefully orchestrated day of pageantry was not shown on air, he basked in Mr. Xi’s presence and lavished him with praise, making no mention of human rights issues that past presidents raised when meeting with Chinese counterparts.尽管特朗普对自己精心筹划的这场盛大仪式未能在电视上播出而大为光火，但他仍陶醉于中国领导人的到场，并对其大加赞美，只字未提历任总统在会晤中国领导人时通常都会提及的人权议题。“From the time of my first election in 2016, President Xi and I have forged a friendship, a truly great friendship, actually, built on mutual respect and the vital interests of our people,” Mr. Trump said in the Grand Foyer of the White House. He later delighted in taking his great friend on a tour of the new White House ballroom that is under construction and showed off his taunting photograph of an autopen meant to represent his predecessor, former President Joseph R. Biden Jr.“自2016年我首次当选以来，我和习主席打造了友谊关系，一段真正伟大的友谊，这段友谊建立在相互尊重和我们的人民的共同利益之上，”特朗普在白宫的主门厅说道。后来，他兴致勃勃地带着这位好友参观正在施工的新白宫宴会厅，还得意地向其展示了一张带有嘲讽意味的照片，照片中是一个自动签名笔，用以影射他的前任拜登总统。

Mr. Trump hopes to similarly host Mr. Putin soon. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced this week that Mr. Trump had invited the once-ostracized Russian leader to attend the annual Group of 20 meeting in Miami in December, which would be his first appearance at the annual gathering since 2019, before his full-fledged invasion of Ukraine. The summit is scheduled to be held at Trump National Doral Miami, where the president tried to host a Group of 7 meeting in his first term only to back down after Republican complaints that it was too self-dealing — complaints not heard this time.特朗普希望不久后也能以类似方式接待普京。国务卿鲁比奥本周宣布，特朗普已经邀请这位一度遭到国际社会排斥的俄罗斯领导人出席12月在迈阿密举行的二十国集团年度峰会。如果成行，这将是普京自2019年——即其全面入侵乌克兰之前——以来首次出席这一年度聚会。峰会计划在特朗普国家多拉尔迈阿密度假村举行。特朗普第一个任期内曾试图在那里举办七国集团峰会，却因共和党内部批评此举涉嫌以权谋私而作罢，而这一次，这样的抱怨声却没有出现。While Mr. Putin was kicked out of the G7 and other groups because of his seizure of Crimea in 2014, Mr. Trump has been eager to bring him back into the international fold. The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Mr. Putin on war crimes charges in 2023, but Mr. Trump ignored that by inviting the Russian to Alaska last year — and just this week denounced the court in an address to the U.N. General Assembly as “an evil group of people” as his administration attempts to dismantle the body.普京因为2014年吞并克里米亚而被逐出七国集团及其他国际组织，但特朗普一直热衷于让他重新融入国际社会。国际刑事法院2023年以战争罪指控对普京发出逮捕令，但特朗普对此置之不理，去年还邀请这位俄罗斯领导人前往阿拉斯加。就在本周，他又在联合国大会发表讲话时斥责该法院是“一群邪恶的人”，而他的政府目前正试图搞垮该机构。Mr. Trump’s affinity for despots, tyrants and autocrats has baffled democratic leaders and diplomats and reoriented American foreign policy for some 10 years now. He gushes over the likes of Kim Jong-un of North Korea (“we fell in love”), Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt (“my favorite dictator”), Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia (“I like him too much”), Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey (“a very good friend of mine”) and Nayib Bukele of El Salvador (“one hell of a president”).特朗普对独裁者、暴君与威权统治者的亲近，过去大约10年里一直令民主国家的领导人和外交官感到困惑，也重新塑造了美国的外交政策。他对朝鲜的金正恩（“我们坠入了爱河”）、埃及的阿卜杜勒-法塔赫·塞西（“我最喜欢的独裁者”）、沙特阿拉伯的穆罕默德·本·萨勒曼（“我太喜欢他了”）、土耳其的雷杰普·塔伊普·埃尔多安（“我的一个非常好的朋友”）以及萨尔瓦多的纳伊布·布克尔（“一位了不起的总统”）等人赞不绝口。By contrast, he regularly feuds with leaders of traditional allies like Canada, Britain, France, Germany and Italy. He derided the democratically elected president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, last year as a “dictator without elections” while offering no concerns about Mr. Putin, whose elections have been documented as thoroughly rigged. He had the United States vote along with North Korea, Belarus and Sudan last year against a U.N. resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and lately has been courting Belarus’s dictator Aleksandr G. Lukashenko.与此形成鲜明对比的是，他时常与加拿大、英国、法国、德国、意大利等传统盟友的领导人爆发争执。去年，他嘲讽乌克兰民选总统泽连斯基是“一个未经选举的独裁者”，却未对普京表达过类似担忧，而后者的历次选举早已被证实为彻头彻尾地舞弊操纵。去年，他曾让美国与朝鲜、白俄罗斯、苏丹一道投票反对一项谴责俄罗斯入侵乌克兰的联合国决议，而最近更是开始向白俄罗斯独裁者亚历山大·卢卡申科示好。

At home, Mr. Trump regularly battles the domestic news media, denouncing journalists as “enemies of the people,” a phrase used by Stalin to condemn dissidents to the gulag. More than any American president in modern times, Mr. Trump has mounted a wide-ranging campaign against independent media through multibillion-dollar lawsuits, Federal Communications Commission pressure, subpoenas to reporters, the eviction of The Associated Press from the White House press pool and restrictions that effectively forced reporters out of the Pentagon.在国内，特朗普经常与美国新闻媒体交战，斥责记者是“人民的敌人”——斯大林曾用这一说法给异见人士定罪，将他们送进古拉格。与现代任何一位美国总统相比，特朗普针对独立媒体发起的打压行动范围都更加广泛，包括索赔数十亿美元的诉讼、通过联邦通信委员会施压、向记者发出传票、将美联社逐出白宫记者团，以及施加实质上迫使记者离开五角大楼的限制措施。Mr. Trump seemed unbothered on Thursday by any mixed messages sent by welcoming Chinese state reporters at the same time he was trying to throw out American news outlets as part of what he called his “ban on the free press.” On the other hand, he did seem bothered by the fact that the still-unresolved showdown meant that boycotting network television cameras did not beam the festivities to the nation.周四，特朗普似乎并不在意这样做释放出的矛盾信号：一边欢迎中国官方媒体记者，一边又试图把美国新闻机构赶出去——他把自己的做法称为“对自由媒体的禁令”。不过，另一方面，他似乎的确对这场仍未解决的对峙所造成的结果感到不满：参与抵制的电视网没有用摄像机把这些盛大场面传向全国。广告In a social media post late in the day, Mr. Trump praised Mr. Xi as “the Highly Respected President of China” and flattered “his beautiful wife, Madam Peng” while accusing CNN and MS NOW of having “NO CREDIBILITY” and being “Fake News.” A White House pool report indicated that at one point during the day Mr. Trump “made a joke about how the Chinese had the friendliest press corps.”当天晚些时候，特朗普在社交媒体发帖，称赞习近平是“备受尊敬的中国国家主席”，还恭维“他美丽的妻子彭女士”，与此同时，他指责CNN和MS NOW“毫无公信力”，是“假新闻”。白宫记者团的一篇报道显示，当天特朗普曾“开玩笑说，中国拥有最友好的记者团”。Which of course depends on the definition of friendly. China exercises iron-fisted control over its press corps and has at least 111 journalists and media workers locked up, according to Reporters Without Borders, making it “the world’s largest prison for journalists.” Of the 180 countries that the group ranks on freedom of the press, China ranks almost at rock bottom at 178th place, above only North Korea and Eritrea. (The United States has fallen to 64th under Mr. Trump.)当然，这取决于怎么定义“友好”。中国对新闻媒体实行铁腕控制。据无国界记者组织统计，中国至少关押了111名记者和媒体工作者，因此成为“世界上关押记者最多的国家”。在该组织对180个国家的新闻自由度排名中，中国几乎垫底，位列第178名，仅高于朝鲜和厄立特里亚。（特朗普执政下的美国已跌至第64位。）“Trump doesn’t just want to meet with Xi — he wants to copy him,” Senator Chris Coons, Democrat of Delaware and a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, wrote on social media, citing attacks on the press, politicizing the justice system and purging the civil service.“特朗普不仅仅是想与习近平会面——他还想效仿他，”特拉华州民主党参议员、参议院外交关系委员会资深成员克里斯·库恩斯在社交媒体上写道，并列举了其打压新闻媒体、将司法系统政治化、清洗公务员队伍等种种行径作为佐证。Even some Republicans, while not openly questioning Mr. Trump’s media ban, expressed disappointment that the president, in courting the leader of one of America’s largest trading partners, was so willing to flatter and fete Mr. Xi while overlooking China’s record of government oppression.甚至一些共和党人也表达了失望。虽然他们没有公开质疑特朗普针对媒体的禁令，但他们认为，在争取美国最大贸易伙伴之一的领导人时，总统如此乐于奉承、盛情款待习近平，却对中国政府的压迫记录视而不见，令人失望。“During every minute of dialogue, our commander in chief should keep in mind that his guest is a brutal, unelected and oppressive dictator who seeks to dominate his neighbors and whose massive military arsenal is aimed directly at the United States of America,” said Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi, the Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.“在每一分钟的对话中，我们的三军统帅都应该牢记，他的客人是一名残暴、未经选举产生、实行压迫统治的独裁者，他试图支配邻国，而且其庞大的军事武库直接瞄准美利坚合众国，”密西西比州共和党参议员、参议院军事委员会主席罗杰·威克说。That was not, however, the message being emphasized at the White House, where the president’s aides this week sought to replace the news outlets he tried to bar by kicking off their own online “Trump TV,” a form of state television that Mr. Xi might recognize. That is certainly one way for Mr. Trump to have his own friendliest press corps.然而，这并非白宫方面所着力传递的信息。本周，总统的助手们试图通过推出自己的在线“特朗普电视”来取代他试图封杀的新闻媒体——这是习近平可能不会陌生的国家电视台形式。对特朗普来说，这当然是一种拥有属于自己的“最友好记者团”的办法。