拜登航班受辱背后：特朗普的转移把戏与对民主的无声侵蚀

[美华之音]

作者：Rainer Hofmann
编译：林胥
来源：https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17vU2UWsdA/?

引言：
当舞台上充斥着喧闹与侮辱，真正的危险往往隐藏在幕后的沉默中。
在特朗普不断用挑衅和丑闻占据公众视线的同时，乔·拜登与一批坚定的守望者，选择了另一条道路——在风暴中坚守尊严，在破坏中守护民主。今天，让我们一起穿透表象，直面背后的真相。

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在唐纳德·特朗普不断制造丑闻、转移视线的喧嚣中，乔·拜登——以及那些拒绝被戏码牵着走的记者们——选择了沉着与坚定，将目光锁定在真正威胁民主的隐秘角落。

在又一次践踏总统传统的举动中，特朗普拒绝允许前总统拜登搭乘空军一号，前往悼念已故教皇弗朗西斯。即便是教皇逝世这样庄重的时刻，特朗普依然无法将体面置于私利之上。

回顾2005年，乔治·W·布什、乔治·H·W·布什和比尔·克林顿曾一同前往罗马，展现出国家团结与尊严。而如今的特朗普，却连最基本的礼仪也不屑履行。当空军一号上的记者告诉他拜登将出席葬礼时，他漠然回应：“哦，真的吗？我不知道。”当被问及是否会与拜登会面时，他冷冷地表示：“这事在我心里优先级很低。”

乔·拜登，这位在困境中始终坚守正直与耐心的人，代表着一种更高尚的政治传统。这种传统，是特朗普执意破坏的对象。拜登理应获得民主社会给予民选代表的那份尊重，然而尊重，对于特朗普而言，仿佛是陌生的语言。

自第二任期伊始，特朗普便不断用拜登作为替罪羊。在上任头50天里，他提到拜登的次数超过300次。这种过度关注，暴露了他内心的深刻不安与对失败的恐惧。他不断制造边境危机、扭曲现实、对拜登进行个人攻击，只为掩盖自身治理的无能。而在这一切的喧嚣之中，拜登如同一面静水之镜，映照出另一种力量：民主精神的韧性与沉着。

一些敏锐的调查记者从一开始就看穿了这场表演：特朗普制造的丑闻与喧嚣，不过是一层浓烟。

他们没有追逐每一顶新的MAGA帽子，也没有被一次次策划好的愤怒爆发所干扰。他们将注意力投向真正重要的地方——那些远离镜头、门窗紧闭的房间，在那里，民主的地基正被悄无声息地蚕食。

在罗马的葬礼上，全球观众目睹了特朗普对拜登和吉尔·拜登的公然无视，尽管两人就在他目光所及之处。但这不仅是一次人身侮辱，更深刻地揭示了特朗普政治本质的全貌：制造分裂、转移视线、瓦解制度尊严。

这正是特朗普惯用的手法：不是单靠喧闹的丑闻，而是通过潜移默化的破坏；不是靠明显的恶行，而是以日积月累的方式侵蚀人们对尊重、信任和民主文化的信仰。

想要与之抗衡的人，不能被表面的挑衅所带动，而应直面那些他刻意掩盖的行动，识破表象，看穿本质。

从这个角度看，罗马葬礼上的一幕，不只是对拜登的侮辱，而是对整个民主传统的侮辱；不只是一次事件，而是特朗普统治逻辑的缩影：对体面的蔑视，对民主规范的敌意，对权力的冷酷执着。

在这一切之中，乔·拜登以沉稳和坚韧回应屈辱。他所代表的精神，比任何时候都更为宝贵——而且，正在变得更加必要。

而当特朗普继续游走——不是通过礼仪，不是通过尊重，而是通过操弄与蛮横时，真正肩负起民主与正义之责的人们，依然清晰地知道自己的方向：

坚定前行，廉洁不屈，绝不沉默。

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后记：
历史不会在喧嚣中书写，而是在坚持中雕刻。
你如何看待特朗普的这一系列举动？你认为在今天的时代，守护民主的关键是什么？
欢迎在评论区留言，分享你的观点，让更多人听到真实与正义的声音，让更多人看见真相！

原文：Behind Biden’s Flight Denial and Insult: Trump’s Mask of Distraction and the Silent Assault on Democracy

While Donald Trump demonstratively directs attention to sideshows with his blatant disrespect, Joe Biden — and the journalists who refuse to follow the spectacle — maintain their composure and focus on the real threats.

In yet another demonstration of his contempt for presidential traditions, Donald Trump once again broke a fundamental norm by refusing to allow former President Joe Biden aboard Air Force One for the funeral of the late Pope Francis. Not even the death of a Pope could move Trump to place decency above self-interest.

In 2005, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, and Bill Clinton had traveled together to Rome — a display of national dignity and respect. Trump, by contrast, refused even this most basic gesture of unity. When reporters aboard Air Force One informed him of Biden’s attendance, he responded indifferently: "Oh, really? I didn’t know," Trump said, according to the Daily Mail. A meeting with Biden during the trip? "Not very high on my list."

Biden — a man who has consistently embodied integrity, patience, and the dignity of the office even in the face of adversity — has long stood as a symbol of a more honorable political tradition. A tradition Trump has worked systematically to undermine. Biden deserved the respect democratic societies owe to their representatives. But respect is a language Trump does not speak.

From the earliest days of his second term, Trump has left no stone unturned in his efforts to cast Biden as a permanent scapegoat. He mentioned Biden over 300 times in the first 50 days of his presidency — a telling reflection of the obsession that drives him. Again and again, the goal has been the same: to distract from his own failures by inventing border crises, grotesquely distorting reality, and personally vilifying his predecessor. Yet while Trump drowns in his own clamor, Biden stands as a quiet counterpoint — sustained by the democratic ethos that Trump so deeply despises.

Some investigative journalists had suspected from the very beginning that the spectacle itself was never the goal, but a smokescreen.

They refused to be fooled. They did not chase after every new 2028 MAGA cap outcry, nor did they react to every orchestrated flare-up of outrage. Instead, they directed their gaze to where power is truly exercised: behind closed doors, away from the cameras, in the silent dismantling of democratic foundations.

While the global audience watched Trump's public disrespect at the funeral — as he ignored Biden and Jill Biden, even though they were directly within his line of sight — the true purpose of Trump's behavior became ever clearer: to deepen divisions, to erect walls of distraction, to erode every form of institutional dignity.

This is Trump's real tactic: not loud scandals, but silent sabotage. Not overt outrages, but the gradual corrosion of respect, trust, and democratic culture. Those who seek to confront him must not follow his cheap provocations but must instead decipher his actions — especially the ones he refuses to talk about.

In this light, the scene in Rome is not merely a personal insult to Biden; it is a reflection of Trump’s entire presidency: contempt for decency, hostility toward democratic norms, and a cold, relentless will to power. Joe Biden, whose quiet perseverance endures even in the face of such indignities, embodies a spirit that, far from fading, is more necessary than ever.

And while Trump moves on — not through Mar-a-Lago, not through protocol, not through respect — the path remains clear for those journalists, activists, and human rights organizations committed to truth: keep going — unwavering, incorruptible, and impossible to ignore.