As visual metaphors go, it wasn’t bad: Donald Trump ignoring expert advice and risking calamity by staring up at the sun as the moon’s shadow passed across America. Self-destructiveness has become a habit for this president — and for his advisers. A recent example: former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon called Robert Kuttner, a prominent progressive journalist, to declare that his internal foes in the administration were “wetting themselves”. Shortly after Mr Kuttner wrote about the conversation, Mr Bannon was out.
在美國出現(xiàn)日全食的過程中，特朗普無視專家的建議，冒著失明的風(fēng)險肉眼觀看日食，這一場景的視覺隱喻真的很貼切。自我毀滅已成為這位總統(tǒng)——和他的顧問――的習(xí)慣性做法。最新的例子就是：前白宮首席戰(zhàn)略顧問史蒂夫?班農(nóng)(Steve Bannon)致電知名進(jìn)步記者羅伯特?庫特納(Robert Kuttner)，宣稱他在政府部門內(nèi)部的政敵“已經(jīng)嚇得尿褲子了”。就在庫特納有關(guān)此次訪談的報(bào)道發(fā)表之后沒多久，班農(nóng)就被炒魷魚了。