《媒體的瘋狂》揭露特朗普政府多項秘密

據一本深入觀察特朗普白宮的新書透露，總統唐納德·特朗普承認了去年的失策，不該安排時任白宮新聞發言人肖恩·斯派塞去抨擊媒體對于就職典禮人群規模的報道。

?？怂剐侣劊‵ox News）霍華德·庫爾茨的這本書《媒體的瘋狂：唐納德·特朗普、新聞界和真理之戰》（Media Madness: Donald Trump, The Press, And The War Over The Truth）將于1月29日上市?！度A盛頓郵報》（The Washington Post）率先登載了節選，詳細呈現了部分內容。

這將是今年1月出版的第二本有關特朗普白宮秘辛的作品。邁克爾·沃爾夫的《火與怒》（Fire and Fury）和盤托出了特朗普入主白宮頭九個月的種種軼事，如今仍然霸占著新聞的頭條。

庫爾茨在他的?？怂剐侣劰澞縈edia Buzz中有時也會站在特朗普一邊批評媒體?！度A盛頓郵報》認為，比起沃爾夫的震撼爆料，庫爾茨這本書更傾向于對白宮工作人員的逢迎式描繪。不過書中也透露了一些白宮成員無法限制總統的軼事。對于白宮工作人員極力反對，而特朗普堅持要做的傾向，他們稱之為“反抗綜合征”。

《華盛頓郵報》表示，書中透露了特朗普的推特如何引發了白宮內部的混亂——包括發推聲明禁止變性人入伍，以及聲稱奧巴馬團隊在競選期間竊聽了他的消息。

庫爾茨在書中寫道：“普利巴斯知道白宮團隊不得不證實推文的正確性，這與審核提交聲明的常規流程的是相悖的。一旦總統把140個字符發出去，他就不會再撤回了?！?

庫爾茨還提到了關于就職典禮人數的爭論。盡管特朗普的顧問凱莉安妮·康韋試圖勸說特朗普不要讓斯派塞攻擊媒體，特朗普還是這么做了，最后導致了一系列關于就職典禮人數規模和笑柄的新聞報道。

書中透露，特朗普對工作人員說：“你們是對的，我不應該那么做?！保ㄘ敻恢形木W）

譯者：嚴匡正

President Donald Trump admitted he was wrong to have then-White House press secretary Sean Spicer attack the media about their reporting on the size of the inauguration crowd last year, according to the latest book providing an inside look at Trump’s White House.

The book, Media Madness: Donald Trump, The Press, And The War Over The Truth, by Fox News’s Howard Kurtz, will be released on Jan. 29. The Washington Post obtained excerpts ahead of the release and detailed some of its contents.

It will be the second Trump White House book to premiere in January, following Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury, the gossipy tell-all about Trump’s first nine months in the White House that is still making headlines.

Kurtz, who has sometimes sided with Trump in his Fox News show Media Buzz in criticizing the media, wrote a book that is reportedly a more honeyed portrayal of the White House staff than Wolff’s bombshell, according to The Washington Post. Yet it still contains telling anecdotes of a White House unable to contain the president, with staff members even coining Trump’s inclination to do what they urged him not to do as “defiance disorder.”

According to The Washington Post, the book reveals how Trump’s tweeting led to chaos among White House staff—including after Trump’s tweets about banning transgender people from serving military and his claim that the Obama White House wiretapped him during the campaign.

“Priebus knew the staff would have to fall into line to prove the tweet correct, the opposite of the usual process of vetting proposed pronouncements,” Kurtz said in the book. “Once the president had committed to 140 characters, he was not going to back off.”

Kurtz also writes about the debate over crowd sizes during the inauguration. Although Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway tried to dissuade Trump from ordering Spicer to attack the press, Trump had Spicer do it anywas, leading to an entire news cycle about inauguration crowd sizes and ridicule.

“You were right,” Trump told his staff, according to the book. “I shouldn’t have done that.”