2026-10-02T17:42:01.912Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
美国总统唐纳德·特朗普已明确表明，他乐于以道德存疑的方式动用官方政府资源，以期在2026年中期选举中获胜。
他曾承诺，如果共和党获胜，将向每位美国成年公民发放5000美元。他还向一些奥巴马医改计划受助者寄送了附带极具政治色彩信件的500美元补助。如今他又在投放政府资助的广告为自己造势，这些广告明显服务于选举目的。
但等等，还有更多。
本周特朗普两次在白宫活动中宣布重大经济项目，而这些项目恰好能惠及正在进行激烈参议院席位竞争的关键州——先是艾奥瓦州，接着是阿拉斯加州。
而两次情况都证明，他的承诺往轻了说也过于草率。
周一，特朗普在椭圆形办公室的一场活动中宣布了艾奥瓦州的项目，参议院候选人、众议员阿什利·辛森等多人出席。该项目计划在艾奥瓦州东部李县新建一座价值150亿美元的梅萨比金属公司钢铁厂，有望创造数千个就业岗位，使艾奥瓦州成为美国第二大钢铁生产州。
当有记者询问该计划的确定性时，特朗普和商务部长霍华德·卢特尼克保证，项目几乎已经板上钉钉。
“我认为这笔交易已经敲定了，这笔交易已经成了，”卢特尼克说道，“他们已经完成了筹备工作。这就是为什么我们齐聚总统身边。除非交易已成定局，否则总统不会召集大家聚在一起。这点你们都清楚。”
特朗普随后插话称：“他们已经开始动工了。”
这并非事实。
事实上，仅仅一天后，艾奥瓦州共和党州长金·雷诺兹就召集州议会召开紧急特别会议，议题正是该项目的税收优惠政策——而卢特尼克宣布交易敲定的时候，就曾被问及这一问题。
同日，当地电视台KWQC报道称，该项目尚未收购土地，也未申请许可，李县官员也表示对项目细节一无所知。
正如CNN记者埃里克·布兰德纳和杰夫·泽莱尼的报道所言，该项目最终能否成真存在诸多实际疑虑。像这样的大型项目往往很难最终落地。当地一些人将该项目比作富士康项目——这家台湾电子公司从未兑现其在威斯康星州投资100亿美元建厂的承诺，而特朗普也曾在2017年的白宫活动中宣布过该项目。
“这听起来好得不像真的，可能确实就是假的，”艾奥瓦州一名共和党高级官员匿名告诉CNN，他要求不具名以免激怒特朗普政府。
辛森驳斥了将该项目与富士康相提并论的说法。
“我不这么认为，”她对CNN表示，“我相信我们的州长，他已经为这笔交易筹备了数月，以确保我们能在艾奥瓦州获得这笔投资。”
但即便这番话也间接承认，这笔交易远不像特朗普和卢特尼克宣称的那样已成定局。
而特朗普声称已经动工的说法更是离谱至极。他要么是在撒谎，要么对自己主持的这场活动的主题一无所知。
周三的另一项特朗普宣布的项目情况如出一辙：韩国将斥资逾500亿美元，用于阿拉斯加州一条陷入困境的天然气管道项目。
和艾奥瓦州的声明一样，特朗普也是在白宫发表这一消息的，身旁坐着面临连任压力的共和党参议员丹·沙利文。
同样和艾奥瓦州的声明一样，特朗普和卢特尼克将此描述为板上钉钉的交易。特朗普称韩国已同意大幅增加对美投资以降低关税，“其中一部分资金将投入这个项目”——也就是这条管道。
“正是你的交易手腕和贸易协定促成了此事，这太了不起了，”卢特尼克对特朗普说道，“这将改变阿拉斯加，也将改变地缘政治。”
特朗普称，政界人士谈论该项目已有五十年，但都未能落地。他表示，该项目将是“美国历史上最大型的能源项目之一”，还将为阿拉斯加民众节省数千美元的能源账单。
沙利文的办公室称这是“韩国历史性的540亿美元投资”。
但到了周四，韩国方面驳斥了特朗普的说法。
“给出具体数字或使用确定性表述，远超双方达成的共识范围，”韩国贸易、工业和资源部长金正宽据韩国联合通讯社报道如此表示。
金正宽称，韩国仍在评估是否推进该管道项目。
当被问及这一矛盾说法时，白宫发言人泰勒·罗杰斯并未作出解释。
“周三的联合声明对阿拉斯加州这个伟大的州、美国和大韩民国而言都具有历史性意义，”罗杰斯转而说道。
特朗普周五在社交媒体上发帖称，韩国还承诺“为强化石油采收项目提供84亿美元”。考虑到本周早些时候发生的情况，人们很难完全采信他的说法。
距离2026年中期选举还有约一个月时间，两项分别关乎参议院控制权的州的大型项目几乎同时敲定，这未免太过巧合。
而同样蹊跷的是，在这两起事件中，特朗普及其团队宣称的项目“万无一失”的说法，很快就被推翻了。
当然，正如富士康项目和其他诸多案例所示，特朗普在吹捧这类项目以及自己在推动项目落地方面取得的“成就”时，往往操之过急。他热衷于大张旗鼓地宣布消息，却极少担心当自己的言论落空后会引发何种后果。
这并不意味着这些项目最终不会落地。只是如果它们最终未能成真，我们很可能要等到辛森和沙利文的选举结果尘埃落定之后，才会得知真相。
就好比那5000美元支票最终无法兑现一样——鉴于该计划耗资逾1万亿美元且存在法律问题，许多人都怀疑其能否落实——到那时，选民早已无法为2026年的选举重新投票。
艾奥瓦州和阿拉斯加州的选民不妨结合这类情况看待这些宣布的项目。因为就目前而言，特朗普为赢得2026年中期选举似乎已经到了无所不用其极的地步。
Trump touted big economic projects in two key Senate states this week. Both announcements soon crumbled
2026-10-02T17:42:01.912Z / CNN
President Donald Trump has made it abundantly clear that he’s happy to use official government resources in ethically dubious ways to try to win the 2026 midterm elections.
He promised to pay every adult US citizen $5,000 if Republicans win. He’s sending $500 to some Obamacare recipients with a very political letter enclosed. And now he’s running government-funded ads that promote himself and are obviously geared towards the election.
But wait. There’s more.
Twice this week, Trump has held White House events announcing a major economic project that happens to benefit a state holding a key, competitive Senate race — first in Iowa, then in Alaska.
And both times, his promises have proven to be overzealous, at best.
Trump announced the Iowa project on Monday at an Oval Office event featuring Senate candidate Rep. Ashley Hinson and many others. It was for a new $15 billion Mesabi Metallics steel plant in Lee County in eastern Iowa — one that could create thousands of jobs and make Iowa the second-largest steel-producing state in the United States.
And when a reporter inquired about how definite the plans were, Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick assured they were effectively written in stone.
“I think this deal is done. This deal is done,” Lutnick said. “They’ve already worked it out. That’s why we’re all together with the president. The president doesn’t bring people together unless it’s a done deal. You guys know that already.”
Trump then jumped in, claiming: “They’ve already started building.”
That’s not true.
Indeed, just a day later, Republican Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds called an emergency special session of the state legislature focused on tax incentives for the project — exactly the issue that Lutnick was asked about when he declared the deal done .
The same day, local TV station KWQC reported that the project still hadn’t acquired land or applied for permits, and Lee County officials said they didn’t have details about the project.
There are also real doubts about whether any of this will ultimately prove to be real, as CNN’s Eric Bradner and Jeff Zeleny report. Big projects like these can prove quite difficult to get across the finish line. Some locally are comparing the project to Foxconn, a Taiwanese electronics company that never delivered a $10 billion Wisconsin plant — one that, like the Iowa steel plant, Trump announced at a White House event in 2017.
“It sounds too good to be true, and it just might be,” a top Iowa GOP official told CNN, speaking on condition of anonymity to avoid inflaming the Trump administration.
Hinson dismissed the Foxconn comparisons.
“I don’t think so,” she told CNN. “I trust our governor, who has been working on this deal for months to make sure that we secure that investment here in Iowa.”
But even those comments implicitly acknowledge the deal isn’t nearly as done as Trump and Lutnick claimed it was.
And it’s downright bizarre that Trump said construction had begun. He was either lying or had no idea about the subject of the entire event he was hosting.
The story is quite similar with another Trump announcement on Wednesday: that South Korea would spend more than $50 billion on a struggling natural gas pipeline in Alaska.
As with the Iowa announcement, Trump made this one at the White House next to the vulnerable GOP senator, Dan Sullivan.
And as with the Iowa announcement, Trump and Lutnick treated this as a done deal. Trump said South Korea had agreed to invest large sums in the US to lower its tariffs, and “part of that money is going into this project” — the pipeline.
“It’s the combination of your deal-making and your trade deal that allowed this to happen, and this is extraordinary,” Lutnick told Trump. “This will change Alaska, and it will change geopolitics.”
Trump said politicians had been talking about the project for five decades but failed to deliver. He said it would be “one of the largest energy projects in American history.” He said it would save Alaskans thousands in energy bills.
Sullivan’s office called it a “historic $54 billion investment by South Korea.”
But by Thursday, South Korea disputed Trump’s claims.
“Putting figures or using definitive language goes far beyond what was agreed,” Minister of Trade Industry and Resources Kim Jung-kwan said, according to South Korean news agency Yonhap.
Kim said South Korea was still reviewing whether to proceed with the pipeline.
When asked about the discrepancy, White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers didn’t explain it.
“Wednesday’s joint announcement was historic for the great state of Alaska, the United States, and the Republic of Korea,” Rogers said instead.
Trump followed that up with a social media post Friday claiming South Korea had also promised “8.4 Billion Dollars for an enhanced Oil Recovery Project”. Given what occurred earlier in the week, it’s hard to completely take him at his word.
It would seem rather coincidental that two major projects in two states majorly important to the Senate battle would suddenly come together around the exact same time with about a month to go in the 2026 midterms.
And it would also seem rather curious that, in both cases, Trump’s and his team’s claims about how ironclad these projects are were quickly knocked down.
Of course, as Foxconn and plenty of other examples show, Trump often jumps the gun when it comes to touting such projects and his successes in facilitating them. He loves a big announcement; he rarely worries about how it might look later when the things he says fall apart.
That doesn’t mean these projects won’t ultimately happen. It’s just that, if they don’t, we’ll likely learn that long after Hinson’s and Sullivan’s electoral fates will be decided.
Kind of like how, if those $5,000 checks never materialize — as plenty doubt they will, given the more than $1 trillion price tag and the legal issues — it’d be too late for voters to get a mulligan on the 2026 election.
And voters in Iowa and Alaska would do well to view these announcements in the context of things like that. Because right now, Trump seems to have an anything-goes attitude towards trying to win the 2026 election.
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