特朗普的“百日成绩单”

April 29 marked US President Donald Trump’s 100th day in office. So how has he performed?
4月29日是美国总统唐纳德•特朗普上任的第100天。那么他的表现如何呢？

One important move was Trump’s successful of Neil Gorsuch, a conservative justice, to the Supreme Court. This was a key promise made to many of the conservative voters who backed Trump in November, reported the Los Angeles Times.
一项重要的举措是特朗普成功任命了保守派法官尼尔•戈萨奇到最高法院任职。据《洛杉矶时报》报道，这是向去年11月支持特朗普的一众保守派选民所做的重要承诺。

Another major move was formally leaving the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. This is a trade deal that aims to create a free trade area spanning from Japan to Chile. But Trump claimed it would hurt American workers and undercut US companies. He believes that cheaper labor in developing countries means that many low-skilled jobs in the US have been taken away, according to Business Insider.
另一项重要举措是正式退出《跨太平洋伙伴关系协议》。该贸易协议旨在建立一个覆盖日本到智利的自由贸易区。但是特朗普声称此举会伤害到美国工人的利益，削弱美国公司的实力。据《商业内幕》网站报道，特朗普认为，发展中国家的廉价劳动力意味着他们夺走了美国许多低技能的工作。

But Trump has also met several failures.
不过，特朗普也遇到了一些挫败。

Soon after taking office, he signed an executive order banning visitors from seven mainly Muslim countries. But it was seen as illegal and discriminatory by US courts and was overturned. A revised ban met the same fate.
在上任后不久，他便签署了一项禁止7个以穆斯林为主国家游客入境的行政命令。但这被美国法院视为非法并带有歧视性因而被推翻。修订后的禁令也遭遇了同样的命运。

Trump was a businessman and had no government experience before winning the White House seat.
特朗普在入主白宫前是一名商人，并没有任何从政经验。

“If you’re the CEO of a company, you can say stuff and people will do what you want. But the presidency of the US is not like that in any respect,” Casey Dominguez, a professor of political science at the University of San Diego, US, told The San Francisco Chronicle.
“如果你是一个公司的总裁，你可以说出想法，公司里的人就会去做你想做的事。但美国总统在任何方面都绝非如此。”美国圣地亚哥大学政治学教授凯西• 多明格斯在接受《旧金山纪事报》采访时表示。

What’s more, a recent survey by ABC News and The Washington Post showed Trump approached his 100th day in office with the lowest level of support of any modern president.
此外，美国广播公司新闻和《华盛顿邮报》近期发起的一项调查显示，特朗普上任将近100天时，他的支持率在现代历任总统当中是最低的。

According to the survey, 42 percent of people said they approved of Trump’s performance, while 53 percent said they disapproved.
根据调查结果显示，42的人称他们支持特朗普的表现，而53的人则表示不认同。

Despite the controversies, Trump seems to be satisfied with his achievements. “No administration has accomplished more in the first 90 days,” Trump said on April 23, according to The New York Times.
尽管存在争议，特朗普似乎对自己的作为感到满意。据《纽约时报》报道，特朗普在4月23日表示，“历届总统在上台前90天里都没有取得这么多的成就”。

In fact, early setbacks and controversies are common for new presidents. Former US President Barack Obama faced an economic meltdown when he took over in 2009 and was forced to immediately make tough decisions on how to end it. He took a series of measures and the situation improved gradually. Obama won a second term in 2012.
事实上，前期的挫折与争议对新任总统来说不足为奇。美国前总统巴拉克•奥巴马在2009年接过大任时面临着经济崩溃，被迫马上做出如何结束经济危机的艰难决定。他采取了一系列的措施，情势也逐渐好转。奥巴马于2012年获得连任。

“You can use the first 100 days to try to understand some of the style of a presidency,” Julian E. Zelizer, a scholar from Princeton University, US, told the Los Angeles Times. “But we really need to limit our analysis to that.”
“你可以通过任期的前100天来试着了解一位总统的某些风格，”美国普林斯顿大学学者朱利安•E•泽利泽在接受《洛杉矶时报》采访时表示，“但是我们的确需要将我们的分析限制于此。”

As Trump has only just reached the 100-day point in his first term as president, it remains to be seen whether he will do well enough to be elected for a second.
由于特朗普只是刚刚度过了首个总统任期的前100天，而他是否能够做得足够出色，从而获得连任，还需拭目以待。