当地时间21日下午，美国总统特朗普参加了白宫新冠疫情简报会，这也是他时隔3个月后首次重启简报会。

 

会上，特朗普画风突变，一改以往对新冠病毒的乐观预测，终于承认，美国疫情可能在好转前变得更糟……并且开始敦促美国人戴上口罩。

 

CNN：特朗普在简报会上称新冠疫情“可能很不幸在好转前要变糟”

 

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据CNN报道，21日特朗普独自参加了白宫简报会，白宫应对疫情小组成员均未出席。美国传染病专家安东尼·福奇此前向CNN表示，自己没有受到邀请。

 

US President Donald Trump held his first press briefing focused on the coronavirus crisis in nearly three months on Tuesday. Trump appeared from the podium by himself, unaccompanied by any of the health experts who comprise the White House coronavirus task force. Dr. Anthony Fauci said on CNN that he hadn't been invited to participate.

 

会上，特朗普称：“我们国家的一些地区做得很好，另一些则没有那么好”。

 

"Some areas of our country are doing very well; others are doing less well."

 

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“不幸的是，（疫情）很可能在好转之前还会变得更糟。有些事我不喜欢说，但是情况就是这样。”

 

"It will probably unfortunately get worse before it gets better. Something I don't like saying about things but that's the way it is. It's what we have."

 

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自新冠疫情在美国爆发以来，特朗普曾多次乐观预测，疫情“终有一天会消失”。

  

就在本次简报会前几天，特朗普还在采访中再次表示“疫情最终会消失”……

 

7月19日，特朗普接受福克斯新闻专访，主持人克里斯·华莱士（Chris Wallace）问特朗普，他在疫情中的决定时常前后不一，是否会使他失信。特朗普回答说：“不会，因为我最终会是对的。我说过疫情最终会消失的，我可以再说一遍，疫情会消失的，我比几乎所有人都要正确。”

 

“I will be right eventually. I said it’s going to disappear; I’ll say it again. It’s going to disappear. And I’ll be right probably more than anybody else.”

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呼吁美国人戴口罩，还现场掏出口罩：我备着呢！

 

此外，会上特朗普还态度明确且强烈呼吁美国人戴上口罩。

 

“我们要求所有人，当你不能保持社交距离时，戴上口罩。不管你喜不喜欢，口罩都有用，都会起作用。”

 

"We're asking everybody that when you are not able to socially distance, wear a mask, get a mask," Trump said in perhaps his most explicit endorsement on that issue to date. "Whether you like the mask or not, they have an impact, they'll have an effect."

 

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期间，有记者问特朗普，他本人能否为美国人做表率，特朗普立即从口袋里掏出了他那个藏蓝色口罩，证明自己“备着呢”。

 

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“我有口罩，就在这儿，我随身带着呢。而且我也愿意戴。没问题。我之前也说过这话。”

 

"I have the mask right here, and I carry it. And I will use it gladly. No problem with it. And I’ve said that. "

 

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“我对戴口罩没意见。我是这么想的：任何东西只要有帮助，而（口罩）确实可能有帮助，那就是好的。我完全没意见。我随身带着，我也会戴上。”

 

"I have no problem with the masks. I view it this way: Anything that potentially can help — and that certainly can potentially help — is a good thing. I have no problem. I carry it. I wear it."

 

 

不过，CNN指出，简报会全程，特朗普却依然没有戴上口罩……

 

And Trump continued offering belated encouragement to wear masks, at one point pulling out his navy blue face covering and claiming he had no problem strapping it on (though he did not during the briefing).

 

一天前，特朗普曾发推Po出了一张自己戴口罩的黑白图片说，“很多人说当你无法保持社交距离时，戴口罩就是爱国行为。没有人比我——你们最爱的总统——更爱国”↓↓↓

 

 

CNN报道说，在这条推文中，特朗普还将新冠病毒称为“看不见的中国病毒”——这一说法特朗普经常使用，却备受批评。

 

Trump's tweet refers to Covid-19 as the "Invisible China Virus" – a name for the disease he has frequently been criticized for using – and features a black-and-white photo of him wearing a mask. 

 

特朗普推文中的配图照片，则是本月初他访问沃尔特•里德军事医院时所拍。这是他首次也是唯一一次在公众面前佩戴口罩遮挡面部，此前数月来他都拒绝这样做。

 

 

The image appears to show Trump wearing a mask with the presidential seal at his visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center earlier this month — his first and only time so far donning a facial covering in public after months of refusing to be seen doing so in public amid the coronavirus pandemic.

 

自打那次访问医院后，特朗普还在采访中称，自己戴上口罩“看起来就像独行侠”。（戳这里回顾）

 

至于特朗普为何态度转变，CNN援引内部人士消息认为，可能跟特朗普最近民调数据不佳有关。数月来，特朗普身边助手都建议他佩戴口罩，这样还可以将“让美国再次伟大”，“特朗普-彭斯2020”甚至美国国旗印在上面。但是这些建议都被特朗普坚定地回绝了，而且他也只在公众面前戴过一次口罩。

 

The shift to encouraging mask-wearing was primarily motivated by floundering poll numbers, a source familiar with the President's thinking told CNN. For months, aides tried to get Trump to wear a mask, saying they could have "MAGA", "Trump-Pence 2020" or even the American flag printed on them. But he steadfastly refused and only wore a mask once in public.

 

但是直到上周的一次会议中，竞选助手们直白地告诉他哪怕是内部数据也显示民众不支持他的相关回应，特朗普才做出了妥协。

 

But it wasn't until a meeting with campaign aides at the White House last week, where aides bluntly told him even internal numbers showed Americans didn't approve of his response, that Trump relented, according to an official who attended that meeting.

 

 

外国网友：现在才开始说，为时已晚！

 

对于特朗普再次将新冠病毒称为所谓的“武汉病毒”，以及宣称自己“戴口罩爱国”的推文，外国网友们立刻开启了回怼模式：

 

“不要再把新冠病毒称为中国病毒，这样会鼓励白人至上主义者当街殴打美国的亚裔兄弟姐妹，会鼓励他们在日常生活中进行非人道的霸凌。把我们当做政治上的替罪羊是不合理的。我们都是人。”

 

“拉倒吧，谁给你发的这条推文？甚至在昨天你还持相反的立场，嚎叫着戴口罩也有风险。同时，我最爱的总统不是个懒惰的笨蛋，成天看自己的电视新闻，也不会像婴儿一样抱怨。”

 

“每个人都比你爱国。”

 

“想像一下，如果你在3月份就这样做（戴口罩），会挽救多少人的生命。”

 

“这是特朗普病毒，不是中国病毒。因为你的无能有超过13.5万人死于疫情，而在这之后你才戴口罩。你做的太少，太晚了！”

 

 

美国政客又给新冠病毒起了个新名字，不过这次……

 

21日白宫简报会当天，美国众议院议长佩洛西接受CNN采访，期间直接称新冠病毒为“特朗普病毒（Trump Virus）”。

 

佩洛西表示，特朗普现在鼓励人们戴口罩，意味着他承认了此前犯的错，因为特朗普的不作为，这场大流行病在好转之前，已经变得更严重，因此很明显这是“特朗普病毒”。

 

佩洛西认为，如果特朗普在数月前作为，那么更多的人就会按照他的引导去做，很多人也就不会因此丧生。

 

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the coronavirus the "Trump virus," saying if he had acted months ago, more people would have followed his lead and lives could have been saved.

 

她还表示，疫情通报应是关乎科学的一件事，而特朗普忽视了这点。佩洛西认为美国遭受的很多痛苦很明显就是“特朗普病毒”。

 

"I think a good deal of what we have suffered is clearly the Trump Virus."

 

佩洛西此言一出，“#TrumpVirus”立刻就上了推特热搜…… 

 

 

据美国约翰斯·霍普金斯大学发布的全球新冠肺炎数据实时统计系统，截至美国东部时间7月21日晚6时，全美共报告新冠肺炎确诊3884988例，死亡141426例。过去24小时，美国新增确诊70525例，新增死亡598例。

 

综合来源：CNN，中国日报，白宫官网，ABC news，观察者网，环视频