2026-09-06T10:30:29.950Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
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发布于 2026年9月6日 美国东部时间上午6:30
唐纳德·特朗普
有太多更重要的议题值得讨论。但在这个分裂的时代，我们至少可以暂时达成共识：唐纳德·特朗普总统的“蠢”言论根本毫无道理。
数月来，特朗普一直面无表情、无比严肃地重复这套说辞，试图将民主党人打上“蠢主党（Dumocrats）”的标签。这位长期以来总声称“没人知道”很多人明明都知道的事的总统，这次又宣称——没人知道，或者至少大多数人不知道，“dumb（蠢的）”这个词是以字母B结尾的。
“大多数人都不知道‘dumb’这个词末尾有个B，”周三他在白宫对共和党议员们说道，“你知道的，他们以为拼写是D-U-M，这倒也无所谓。”
“大多数人都不知道‘dumb’末尾有个B，”今年7月他在白宫记者晚宴上如是说。
“没人知道‘dumb’末尾有个B，”6月他在接受《纽约邮报》采访时称。
“大多数人都不知道，你懂的，‘dumb’是以B结尾的。但大多数人确实不知道，”5月他在福克斯新闻的采访中说道。
真的吗？
姑且先对特朗普手下留情：由于从未有过针对“dumb”拼写的全国性测试，我们无法权威核实他“大多数人”的说法是否属实。而且不可否认，确实有一些美国人在整体读写能力尤其是拼写方面存在困难。
但……拜托。“dumb”？这个孩子们在小学就会学到的常用四字母单词？大多数人都知道“dumb”该怎么拼写。这是显而易见的事。
那么，这位美国总统为什么要刻意营造一个幻想世界，声称大多数人都不知道——甚至没人知道——一件绝大多数人明明都清楚的事？
我们不认同批评者的说法，即特朗普自己也是刚知道“dumb”末尾有个B。更有可能的是，这套胡言乱语源于这位总统一心想要让所有人都认为他才华横溢——当有人质疑他给民主党起的“蠢主党”这个幼稚的侮辱性绰号是否妥当，他宁愿让公众显得极度无知，也不愿承认这可能不是他起外号的最佳水平。
“如果你把E换成U，民主党（Democrat）就变成了蠢主党（Dumocrat），”周二他解释道，此前他也曾多次重复过这一说法，“而且大多数人都不知道‘dumb’末尾有个B。你懂的，他们以为拼写是D-U-M，这倒也无所谓。所以只需要改一个字母，去掉E，换成D（注：此处应为笔误，实际是将Democrat中的E替换为U，同时将前缀的D保留，结合前面的说法，特朗普混淆了拼写逻辑），你就得到了蠢主党。”
我们永远无法确切知道这背后究竟是怎么回事。考虑到整件事有多蠢，这其实也无所谓。
Trump’s ‘dumb’ story makes no sense
2026-09-06T10:30:29.950Z / CNN
Analysis by Daniel Dale
PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2026, 6:30 AM ET
Donald Trump
President Donald Trump speaks as he hosts a dinner in the Rose Garden at the White House on September 2.
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There are far more important issues to discuss. But in these divided times, surely we can all come together for a brief moment and agree that President Donald Trump’s “dumb” story makes no sense.
Trump has been saying it over and over for months, straight-faced and dead serious, as he tries to brand Democrats as “Dumocrats.” The president who has a long history of asserting nobody knew things lots of people actually knew is this time declaring that…nobody knows, or at least most people don’t know, that “dumb” ends with the letter B.
“Most people don’t know that ‘dumb’ has a B at the end,” he told Republican lawmakers at the White House on Wednesday. “You know, they think it’s D-U-M, and that’s okay.”
“Most people don’t know that ‘dumb’ has a B,” he said at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in July.
“Nobody knows that ‘dumb’ has a B,” he said in a New York Post interview in June.
“Most people don’t know that, you know, ‘dumb’ ends with a B. But most people don’t know,” he said in a Fox News interview in May.
Really?
To be very generous to Trump, his “most people” claim cannot be authoritatively fact-checked because there has not been a national spelling test on the word “dumb.” And it’s certainly true that some Americans struggle with literacy in general and spelling in particular.
But…come on here. “Dumb”? A common four-letter word kids learn in grade school? Most people know how to spell “dumb.” This is obvious.
So why is the president of the United States going out of his way to establish a fantasy world in which most people don’t know – or even that nobody knows – a thing most people clearly know?
We don’t believe the critics who claim it’s because Trump himself just learned “dumb” has a B. Rather, it’s more likely this nonsense is a product of the president’s insistence on being constantly and universally viewed as brilliant – that someone questioned the wisdom of “Dumocrat,” his preferred spelling of the juvenile insult, and he preferred to justify it by making the public sound woefully ignorant rather than admit this might not be his finest nicknaming work.
“If you replace the E with a U, instead of Democrat you have Dumocrat,” the president explained on Tuesday, as he has on multiple previous occasions. “And most people don’t know that ‘dumb’ has a B at the end. You know, they think it’s D-U-M, and that’s okay. So it’s a one-letter change and you go no more E, you just put a D, and you got a Dumocrat.”
We’ll never know for certain what is happening here. Which is fine given how dumb this whole thing is.
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