2026年10月17日 / 美国东部时间下午4:48 / 美联社
周六，特朗普总统在肯塔基州的集会上为共和党拉票，此时他的政党在中期选举中处境艰难。他在集会上吹嘘自己二度入主白宫后的权力，称“我能做出令人难以置信的事”。
特朗普在高地高地市发表讲话，为包括参选美国众议院的埃德·加尔莱恩在内的共和党候选人造势。他当时正谈及自己更改美国政府对墨西哥湾的称呼，将其改为“美国湾”的决定。
“我认为在第一任期内不可能做到这一点。这一届政府权力大得多，”特朗普说。“第一任期时，谷歌根本不接我的电话。现在，他们都对我毕恭毕敬。”
“哦，我还把加拿大的一个湖改名为‘美国湖’，”他继续说道，他指的是安大略湖。
特朗普自诩的权力，与选民对他行使权力方式的不满形成鲜明对比：关税和伊朗战争推高了物价，越来越多的美国人认为总统只顾自身利益，而非国家利益。
国会参众两院的控制权岌岌可危，如果民主党获胜，他们有望对特朗普政府发起调查。尽管共和党私下担忧特朗普会成为累赘，但特朗普还是将自己置于选民关注的焦点。
特朗普提名自己的一名私人律师担任司法部长，下令对涉嫌贩毒船只实施军事打击，试图将自己的名字刻在肯尼迪中心，并且在任职期间为自己和家人牟取私利。
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在肯塔基州的集会上，特朗普漫无边际地谈论多个话题，他谈到了油价，称与伊朗的战争很快就会结束——这场持续近8个月的冲突中，他多次做出过类似断言——并且油价会降到比此前更低的水平。人群欢呼起来。
特朗普再次重申了他那缺乏依据的承诺：如果共和党赢得众议院和参议院的多数席位，每位美国成年人将获得5000美元。这一承诺预计耗资将超过1万亿美元，需要国会批准，同时还会加剧美国每年近1.8万亿美元的预算赤字。
在周六的集会上，特朗普为肯塔基州新增了一项有条件的承诺：他表示，如果共和党获胜，国防部将投资振兴该州的一家制药工厂。
In Kentucky midterm campaign stop, Trump says he “can do stuff that is unbelievable”
October 17, 2026 / 4:48 PM EDT / AP
President Trump touted his power in his second go-around in the White House Saturday while rallying in Kentucky to bolster Republican turnout as his party struggles in the midterms, saying, “I can do stuff that is unbelievable.”
Mr. Trump, who spoke in the city of Highland Heights to boost Republican candidates, including Ed Gallrein for the U.S. House, was riffing on his decision to change how the U.S. government refers to the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
“I don’t think I could have done this in my first term. This is a much more powerful term,” Mr. Trump said. “Google wouldn’t have taken my call in the first. Now, they kiss my ass.”
“Well, I also changed the name of a lake in Canada to the Lake America,” he continued, referring to Lake Ontario.
Mr. Trump’s self-proclaimed power is set against voter frustration with how he’s wielded it, with tariffs and the Iran war driving up prices and more Americans seeing the president looking out for his own interests and not those of the country.
With control of both chambers of Congress on the line, and with it the prospects of Democratic-led investigations of his administration should they win, Mr. Trump has put himself at the fore for voters even as Republicans privately worry he’s a liability.
Mr. Trump nominated one of his personal lawyers to serve as attorney general, ordered military strikes on accused drug-smuggling boats, is trying to put his name on the Kennedy Center, and has enriched himself and his family while he’s been in office.
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While meandering through topics onstage in Kentucky, Mr. Trump touched on gas prices, saying that the war with Iran was going to end soon — an assertion he’s made many times over the course of the nearly eight-month conflict — and that gas prices will drop to lower than previously. The crowd cheered.
Mr. Trump rehashed his dubious promise that if Republicans win the House and the Senate, then every adult American would get $5,000. That would most likely cost more than $1 trillion and require congressional approval, while exacerbating the country’s nearly $1.8 trillion annual budget deficit.
At Saturday’s rally, Mr. Trump added a new conditional promise for Kentucky; if Republicans win, he said, the Department of Defense would invest in revitalizing a drug manufacturing facility in the state.
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