2026-06-15T19:20:30.406Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
- 唐纳德·特朗普总统任期内围绕华盛顿特区展开的第二任期自负项目正遭遇一系列法律和后勤障碍。
- 最近的挫折发生在肯尼迪中心和倒影池。
- 他引以为傲的这些项目本就不受欢迎，如今看起来更是仓促上马、考虑不周。
本文由AI生成摘要，并经CNN编辑审核。
唐纳德·特朗普总统将自己的第二任期打造成以自我为中心的大型自负项目的努力，正变得越来越混乱。
要是在太平岁月，他费尽心思打造奢华的白宫宴会厅、在建筑上贴上自己名字或许还另当别论；但如今特朗普的时机选择可谓极其不合时宜，因为大多数美国人更关心自己的钱包，而非为一位历来不受欢迎的总统歌功颂德。
近几日乃至近几周来，本届政府的多项举措屡屡碰壁，其美化华盛顿特区的行动（往往通过规避法律途径）也显得相当随意草率。
最引人注目的或许莫过于特朗普在肯尼迪中心遭遇的挫折。
他通过安插亲信实质上掌控了肯尼迪中心董事会后，董事会去年晚些时候出人意料地提出要在建筑上加上特朗普的名字。他们将其与按照联邦法律命名该建筑的已故总统名字并列展示。
但不出所料，法院裁定此举违法，政府不得不面临摘除特朗普名字的舆论压力。正如我本月早些时候所写，这次移除可能会成为“一幅挥之不去且极具警示意义的画面”。
果不其然，本周末肯尼迪中心被迫摘除建筑上的特朗普名字时，特意选在深夜进行。现场搭建了脚手架并悬挂防水布，阻挡在场人员看到这一过程。
到周一，建筑外立面仍被遮盖着。
再说说那些未能按计划推进的事：特朗普和众多盟友曾为政府将林肯纪念堂倒影池底部染成深蓝色的举措拍手叫好，尽管此举在法律上存疑。
这个想法或许值得称赞，但项目成本从特朗普最初估算的180万美元飙升至1400多万美元。承包商还获得了一份无须招标的合同，而这类合同通常仅适用于特殊情况。据美国国家公园管理局的分析，《纽约时报》还报道称，该公司获得的利润率远高于正常水平。
而就在特朗普宣布项目完工不到一周后，倒影池就被藻类大量覆盖，池水又变回了人们熟悉的绿色。
美国国家公园管理局正在处理这一问题，并乐观表示可以解决。周日，工作人员穿着防水靴在池内将藻类扫向纳米气泡机器以灭杀藻类。但此前这一问题就一直难以根除。
特朗普似乎已经注意到了这一情况。周一上午，他在社交媒体上转发了一家友好新闻媒体的文章，文章感谢他让倒影池重现美丽。
只不过这篇文章已经发布一周了。
过去几天也进一步凸显出，特朗普对美国建国250周年庆祝活动的管理正将其政治化。
特朗普80岁生日当天在白宫南草坪举办的终极格斗冠军赛（UFC）避开了可能影响活动的恶劣天气。但这场原本被认为很成功的活动却因一名选手抢过麦克风，虚假宣称前第一夫人米歇尔·奥巴马是男性而蒙上阴影——这一在网络狂热阴谋论圈子里流传的荒谬说法广为流传。尽管UFC首席执行官兼总裁达纳·怀特批评了这一冒犯性言论，但白宫并未表态。
仿佛一切还不够明显，特朗普周一或许在无意中暗示，美国建国250周年的庆祝活动至少将在很大程度上成为对他本人的庆祝。
他在社交媒体帖子中称，7月4日在国家广场举办的庆祝活动将成为“有史以来最壮观的特朗普集会”。
特朗普将这些活动与自己绑定并不令人意外，这是他一贯的行事风格。但几周前，有多组音乐人因担忧活动被政治化而取消了原定演出，当时政府和组织者却声称这并非问题。
“自由250”活动的一位发言人将这些活动称为“本质上非政治性的”。
与此同时，内政部长道格·伯古姆5月在CNN《国情咨文》节目中接受达纳·巴什采访时表示：“这场‘自由250’活动以及纪念250周年的庆祝活动都是无党派活动。”
近几周特朗普还遭遇了一系列其他挫折。
关于他的宴会厅项目，参议院共和党人从一项移民法案中删除了一项条款，该条款本可为白宫请求的该项目安保资金提供支持（特朗普曾多次表示该项目将完全由私人出资）。随后有7名共和党参议员支持一项试图阻止该资金获批的提案。
此前有报道称，政府可能计划印制印有特朗普头像的250美元纪念钞，政府也被迫收回相关说法。这一做法显然违法，因为活人头像不得出现在货币上。很快，白宫就承认需要国会修改相关法律（而这显然不可能实现）。
从政治角度来看，250美元纪念钞的提议充分体现了这些想法有多么可疑。当财政部仅提出将特朗普的签名印在货币上时，《华盛顿邮报》和美国广播公司新闻的一项民调显示，68%的美国人反对，仅有12%支持。
特朗普的宴会厅以及他提议建造的250英尺高凯旋门的民调支持率也极低。在本周末白宫举办UFC赛事之前，路透社与益普索的一项民调显示，仅有16%的美国人认为在白宫场地举办此类活动“合适”，而46%的人表示“不合适”。
这几乎就像美国几乎没人想要这些东西——当然，除了特朗普本人。美国人似乎并不想为一位支持率持续徘徊在30%多的现任总统修建纪念物。而且这些项目看起来大多都相当仓促，考虑不周。
但特朗普仍在继续推进。
Trump’s vanity projects are a growing mess
2026-06-15T19:20:30.406Z / CNN
- President Donald Trump’s second-term vanity projects around Washington, DC, are hitting a series of legal and logistical roadblocks.
- The most recent setbacks came at the Kennedy Center and the Reflecting Pool.
- His pet projects were already unpopular, but now they’re looking rushed and not totally thought through.
AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.
President Donald Trump’s efforts to turn his second term into a big vanity project largely focused on himself are looking increasingly messy.
It would be one thing for him to go to such great lengths to build an elaborate White House ballroom and slap his name on buildings in the best of times; but Trump’s timing would seem exceedingly tone deaf, given most Americans are more concerned about their own pocketbooks than honoring a historically unpopular president.
And repeatedly in recent days and weeks, the administration’s initiatives have run into roadblocks and its efforts to embellish Washington, DC, (often by skirting the law) have looked rather haphazard.
Perhaps most striking was Trump’s setback at the Kennedy Center.
After he effectively hijacked the center’s board by installing loyalists, the board moved to — surprise! — put Trump’s name on the building late last year. They added it alongside the deceased president whose name was on the building as a matter of federal law.
But after the courts predictably ruled that was illegal, the administration has had to confront the optics of taking Trump’s name off the building. As I wrote earlier this month, that removal threatened to be “an indelible — and telling — image.”
And lo, when the Kennedy Center was compelled to take Trump’s name off the building this weekend, it was conveniently done in the middle of the night. Scaffolding was constructed and tarps were hung to obstruct those assembled from viewing it.
By Monday, the face of the building was still covered up.
Speaking of things not exactly going according to plan: Trump and many allies have celebrated his administration’s legally dubious effort to paint the bottom of the Lincoln Memorial’s Reflecting Pool dark blue.
While perhaps a commendable idea, the cost of the project ballooned from Trump’s initial estimate of $1.8 million to more than $14 million. The contractor was also given a no-bid contract, which is generally reserved for special circumstances. The New York Times also reported that the company was allowed a profit margin much higher than normal, according to a National Park Service analysis.
And now, less than a week after Trump announced the project was finished, the Reflecting Pool has been overrun with algae, turning the water a familiar shade of green.
The National Park Service is dealing with the issue and is projecting optimism that it can be remedied. Employees were in the pool in hip-waders on Sunday sweeping the algae toward nanobubbling machines to kill it. But the problem has proven stubborn before.
And Trump seems to have taken notice of it. On Monday morning, he posted an article from a friendly news outlet thanking him for making the Reflecting Pool so beautiful again.
Except the article is a week old.
The last couple of days have also reinforced how Trump’s stewardship of the country’s 250th anniversary celebration is politicizing it.
The UFC fights held on the South Lawn of the White House on Trump’s 80th birthday avoided potentially problematic weather. But what was otherwise thought to be a successful program was marred by one of the fighters grabbing a microphone and falsely declaring that former first lady Michelle Obama is a man (a popular but ridiculous conspiracy theory in the fever swamps of the internet). While UFC CEO and President Dana White criticized the offensive comment, the White House has not.
And as if it wasn’t already clear, Trump on Monday perhaps unwittingly suggested the celebration of the country’s 250th anniversary would also be, at least in large part, a celebration of him.
In a social media post, he said the celebration on the National Mall on July 4 will be the “most spectacular TRUMP RALLY of them all.”
It’s not surprising Trump would make these events about himself; this is part of a pattern. But a few weeks back, when a series of musical acts were canceling their scheduled appearances over politicization concerns, the administration and organizers pretended it was a non-issue.
A spokesperson for Freedom 250 called the events “inherently nonpolitical.”
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, meanwhile, told Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union” in May that “this Freedom 250 and the celebration of the 250th [is a nonpartisan event.”
Trump has also dealt with a series of other setbacks in recent weeks.
On his ballroom, Senate Republicans stripped a provision from an immigration bill that would have provided the White House’s requested security funding for the project (which Trump said repeatedly would be fully privately funded). Then seven Senate Republicans backed a measure attempting to block the funding from ever being passed.
The administration was also forced to retrench on reports that it was potentially planning to print a commemorative $250 bill with Trump’s face on it. This appears to be illegal, given living people can’t appear on currency. And soon enough, the White House acknowledged Congress would have to change the law (which won’t happen).
The $250 bill is a great example of how many of these ideas seem rather suspect, politically speaking. When the Treasury Department moved to merely put Trump’s signature on currency, a Washington Post-ABC News poll showed Americans opposed it 68%-12%.
Trump’s ballroom and his proposed 250-foot triumphal arch also polled quite poorly. And ahead of the UFC event at the White House this weekend, a Reuters-Ipsos poll showed just 16% of Americans said it was “appropriate” to hold such an event on White House grounds, compared to 46% who said it was not.
It’s almost like very few people in America seem to be asking for these things — few people except Trump, that is. Americans don’t seem to want to build monuments to an incumbent president whose approval rating is mired in the 30s. And it’s looking like much of this effort is rather rushed and not totally thought through.
Trump just keeps pursuing it, though.
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