Trump blasts back after Times publisher decries 'enemy of the people' attacks

Posted on by Brad Lee 2 mins read

. blast back:(v) 猛烈回擊 { blast:(v) 爆炸 }

. decry:(v) 譴責

Hours after saying he had a “very good meeting” with the publisher of the New York Times about his labelling the press the “enemy of the people”, Donald Trump launched a blistering attack on “anti-Trump haters in the dying newspaper industry”.

. blistering:(a) 猛烈的; 嚴厲的; 無情的

. hater:(n) 懷恨者

. dying:(a) 垂死的

“The failing New York Times and the Amazon Washington Post do nothing but write bad stories even on very positive achievements,” Trump tweeted. “And they will never change!” Earlier, the White House confirmed Trump met Times’ publisher AG Sulzberger on 20 July. Sulzberger then issued a statement that opened an exchange over whose activities were more damaging to America.

. failing:(a) 失敗的

. exchange:(n) 交換; 語言的交換, 交流

. statement:(n) 聲明

Sulzberger said he had raised “concerns about the president’s deeply troubling anti-press rhetoric” and “implored him to reconsider his broader attacks on journalism, which I believe are dangerous and harmful to our country”.

. anti-press: 反新聞媒體

. rhetoric:(n) 修辭學, 修辭; 花言巧語, 浮誇之詞

. implore:(v) 懇求

. journalism:(n) 新聞業

. harmful:(a) 有害的

He did not say how the president responded. Hours later, Trump obliged. In a multi-tweet rant, he claimed reports on “internal deliberations of our government … truly put the lives of many, not just journalists, at risk”. Claiming without evidence that “90% of media coverage of my administration is negative”, Trump said he would “not allow our great country to be sold out by anti-Trump haters in the dying newspaper industry”.

. oblige:(v) 施恩惠; 幫忙; 強制

. rant:(v, n) 咆哮; 痛罵

. claim:(v) 聲稱

. deliberation:(n) 審議

. put somebody live at risk: 將某人的生命置於危險之中

. journalist:(n) 記者, 新聞工作者

. sold out: 出賣

Sulzberger, 37, took over from his father on 1 January. In his statement, he said: “I told the president directly that I thought that his language was not just divisive but increasingly dangerous. I told him that although the phrase ‘fake news’ is untrue and harmful, I am far more concerned about his labelling journalists ‘the enemy of the people’.”

. take over:(v) 接任

. divisive:(a) 分裂的

. far more concern: 更加擔心