George Conway批评《纽约时报》有关Trump因Lindsey Graham去世而悲伤的标题
要点速览
- •George Conway反对《纽约时报》一则将Trump描述为因Lindsey Graham参议员去世而悲伤的标题。
- •Conway称该标题在事实层面不准确，并批评该报将Trump的情绪状态作为事实呈现。
- •这场争议聚焦于媒体是否应在缺乏明确支持的情况下，把内在动机归因于政治人物。
- •包括Mark Concannon和Marcy Wheeler在内的其他批评人士也认为，《纽约时报》的表述误characterized了Trump的决定。
- •文章指出，围绕Trump心理健康的公开说法在政治和医学层面仍然敏感。
律师George Conway周五批评《纽约时报》一则标题，该标题称Donald Trump总统因Lindsey Graham参议员去世而悲伤。Conway称这种表述“荒谬”且“在事实层面严重不准确”。
Conway是一名民主党国会候选人，曾与Trump顾问Kellyanne Conway结婚。他回应的是《纽约时报》一则标题：“How a Grieving Trump Decided to Back Graham’s Sister for Senate。”该文称，总统对其朋友、近日去世的Lindsey Graham参议员之死“表现出不同寻常的情绪化”。Conway在X上的一篇帖子中否定了这种描述。
“Truly absurd headline,” Conway 发文称. “And most importantly, grossly factually inaccurate. Beyond any reasonable doubt, Trump is a sociopath; he does not grieve, nor is he capable of grief. Even if journalists are too timid to report that truth, they should not report the contrary as truth.”
这场争议不仅集中在Trump的心理状态，也涉及主要新闻机构如何在标题和摘要中框定政治决策。批评人士认为，将Trump描述为“悲伤”，是在把一种内在情绪解释作为事实呈现，而不是作为来自消息人士的说法，或由可观察行为支持的判断。
有关Trump患有某种严重“反社会人格障碍”的说法，在其政治生涯中频繁出现。早期批评往往集中在极端自恋的指控上，但近几个月，一些评论人士认为Trump可能患有更危险的障碍。此类说法在政治和医学层面都十分敏感：心理健康专业人士通常会区分通过直接评估作出的临床诊断，以及基于可观察行为的公共评论。
今年3月，《纽约时报》专栏作家Jamelle Bouie称Trump是“psychopath”，并称这是“in the clinical sense,”，他断言Trump“doesn’t appear to recognize that other people exist. That other people have feelings. That their concerns ought to be considered. [He is] someone who has no awareness of the existence of other minds.” 上周，前劳工部长Robert Reich称Trump是一个“who will stop at nothing to get the results he wants”的sociopath。
同一天，Trump畅销传记作者Seth Abramson写道：“However it came to pass — childhood trauma, genetics, dementia — this U.S. president is now functionally a psychopath. He lives in his own reality. He converses only with himself. All America is now downstream from a madman who's not listening to anyone or anything but his own madness.”
Conway并非唯一质疑《纽约时报》对Trump这一决定的表述的人。制片人、艾美奖得主Mark Concannon问该报：“Why do you continue to parrot this Trump pressroom garbage? He wasn’t ‘grieving’ about Lindsey Graham. He just knows his sister will be as big a sycophant as her brother was and do anything he tells her to do. That’s why he endorsed her. Full stop.”
其他人也称该标题不准确。国家安全分析师Marcy Wheeler在Bluesky上写道：“If you were struck by the description of Trump the sociopath making a decision (to appoint Lindsey's sister, which decision Gov McMaster had already made) [because] of something NYT called 'grief,' the passage on the left precedes the passage on the right in the story.”
Wheeler的批评是，《纽约时报》自己的文章显示，Trump的行动主要并非出于某种“情绪化”状态，而是出于政治算计。