上周二,美国总统唐纳德·特朗普称前白宫工作人员欧玛罗莎·马尼戈·纽曼是“狗”。欧玛罗莎是唯一一位在白宫担任高级职位的非裔美国人。
President Donald Trump last Tuesday referred to former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman, the only African-American to have served in a senior role in the White House, as a "dog."
特朗普发推特称:“你给一名疯狂、急需受到注意的卑劣者机会,让她到白宫工作,我想那是行不通的。凯利将军速速解雇了那条狗,做得好!”。
"When you give a crazed, crying lowlife a break, and give her a job at the White House, I guess it just didn't work out. Good work by General Kelly for quickly firing that dog," Trump tweeted.
把一个非裔美国女人称为动物,这种说话方式严重与特朗普的总统身份不符,更糟的是,此种说话方式不禁让人想到这是特朗普对性别和种族的歧视。
Referring to an African-American woman as an animal is at best a sharp departure from the language typically employed by Presidents and at worst a reference that traffics in sexual and racial imagery.
长期以来,特朗普一直否认自己是种族主义者,并驳斥了欧玛罗莎关于特朗普在《飞黄腾达》节目中存在种族歧视的说法。
Trump has long denied being racist and has dismissed a claim made by Manigault Newman that he used a racial slur on the set of "The Apprentice."
作为总统,特朗普加剧了美国的种族紧张局势,并将去年在弗吉尼亚州夏洛茨维尔的新纳粹主义集会引发的暴力事件归咎于“由来已久”。
As President, however, Trump has stoked racial tensions in the US, blaming "both sides" after violence sparked last year by a neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
他还私下里把一些非洲国家称为“粪坑”,并猛烈抨击了由黑人橄榄球联盟球员所主导的抗议活动。
He also privately referred some African nations as "s***hole countries" and lambasted the protests led overwhelmingly by black NFL players.