2026年7月27日 美国东部时间下午5:49 / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：丹尼尔·戴尔
7月27日周一，唐纳德·特朗普总统在密歇根州米尔福德的通用汽车米尔福德试车场发表讲话。
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在连续三届总统竞选期间，唐纳德·特朗普总统在摇摆州密歇根州发表演讲时，总会重复同一个谎言。他声称，在涉足政坛之前，自己就曾被评为该州的“年度人物”。
问题在于：CNN和其他媒体曾多次指出，这项奖项根本不存在。但周一，特朗普在密歇根州一场充斥着虚假陈述的经济演讲临近尾声时，再次重提此事，还额外编造了一个谎言，称起初持怀疑态度的媒体最终证实了这个奖项的真实性。
“我25年前来过这里，还获得了年度人物。他们——哦对了，媒体当时对此提出质疑，但后来发现这确实是真的，”特朗普笑着说道，“当时我发表了一场演讲，通篇都在讲你们为什么要任由他们窃取你们的汽车工业？”
并非如此。这又是本月特朗普多次演讲中充斥虚假历史的又一例证。
自特朗普首次编造“年度人物”谎言以来，已接近整整十年，至今无人能找到任何相关证据。密歇根州并没有设立“年度人物”奖项，特朗普从未在该州居住过，他及其团队也从未明确说明究竟是谁、或是哪个机构曾授予他这一奖项，以及具体时间。
2023年，在近七年的持续辟谣之后，密歇根州的一个共和党团体设立了“十年人物”奖项并颁发给了特朗普。
但特朗普周一明确表示，他所指的并非这个奖项，因为他称自己谈论的是数十年前获得的“年度人物”荣誉。（补充说明：在他此前多次讲述“年度人物”的版本中，比如2024年竞选期间的一次发言，他将所谓的荣誉时间定在2010年代，而非周一提到的2000年代。）
密歇根州前共和党国会议员戴夫·特罗特后来成为特朗普的尖锐批评者，他为特朗普编造的这个故事可能的来源提出了最合理的解释。2019年，特罗特联系CNN指出，特朗普在两年前的一场活动中称，自己曾在2013年密歇根州的一场共和党晚宴上获得“年度人物”奖项，而特罗特当时曾邀请特朗普在该晚宴上发表演讲。
在那场2013年的晚宴上，特罗特向特朗普赠送了包括装裱好的《葛底斯堡演说》副本在内的礼物。但特罗特明确表示，没有人向特朗普颁发过“年度人物”奖项。
特朗普至少有一次承认，在从政前于密歇根州获得此类荣誉的说法本身就令人费解。
“事实上，在我考虑参选的五六年前，不知为何他们就选我为密歇根州的年度人物。我当时说，‘怎么回事？’连我自己都没搞明白，”他2019年在新罕布什尔州的一场集会上说道，随后又重复道，“但我确实被评为了年度人物。”
Fact check: Trump is approaching 10 years of telling his Michigan ‘Man of the Year’ lie
2026-07-27 5:49 PM ET / CNN
By Daniel Dale
President Donald Trump delivers remarks at General Motors’ Milford Proving Ground in Milford, Michigan, on Monday, July 27.
Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images
For three consecutive presidential campaigns, President Donald Trump regularly told the same lie when he spoke in the swing state of Michigan. Before he even entered politics, he claimed, he was named “Man of the Year” in the state.
The problem: CNN and other media outlets repeatedly noted that this award did not exist. But Trump revived the tale once more near the end of a falsehood-filled economic speech in Michigan on Monday — and added an additional lie claiming that an initially skeptical media had eventually discovered the award story was correct.
“I was here 25 years ago, I got Man of the Year. They — oh, by the way, the press questioned that, and then they found out it was true, actually,” Trump said with a chuckle. “And I made a speech, and all I talked about was why are you letting them steal your auto industry?”
Nope. This is yet another example of the fake history that has littered various Trump addresses this month.
Approaching 10 full years after Trump debuted the “Man of the Year” lie, nobody has ever been able to find any evidence for it. The state of Michigan does not give out a “Man of the Year” award, Trump has never lived in the state, and he and his team have never specified who or what entity supposedly gave him this award and when.
In 2023, after nearly seven years of debunkings of Trump’s “Man of the Year” tales, a Republican group in Michigan created a “Man of the Decade” award and gave it to him.
But Trump made clear Monday that this is not what he was referring to, since he said he was talking about a “Man of the Year” honor he received decades ago. (Side note: in many previous tellings of the “Man of the Year” story, like one during his 2024 campaign, he has placed the supposed honor in the 2010s rather than the 2000s as he suggested Monday.)
Dave Trott, a former Republican congressman in Michigan who became a sharp critic of Trump, has offered the most plausible theory about the possible basis for Trump’s made-up story. In 2019, Trott contacted CNN to note that Trump had suggested at an event two years prior that he had received the “Man of the Year” award at a 2013 Republican dinner in Michigan to which Trott had invited Trump to make a speech.
At that 2013 dinner, Trott gave Trump gifts that included a framed copy of the Gettysburg Address. But Trott emphatically noted that nobody gave Trump any “Man of the Year” award.
At least once, Trump has acknowledged that the idea of him receiving such an honor in Michigan before his time as a politician was bewildering.
“In fact, five or six years before I even thought about running, for whatever reason they named me Man of the Year in Michigan. I said, ‘How come?’ I didn’t even understand it myself,” he said at a 2019 rally in New Hampshire — then repeated, “But I was named Man of the Year.”
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