Callum Ward-Smith (callumwardsmith)
Example Translations
Journalism [Japanese ≫ English]
Original text
暴言の嵐「敗者は国民」 討論会
「調子はどう？」「あなたは？」「元気ですよ」
テレビ討論会の冒頭、トランプ氏とバイデン氏はにこやかにあいさつを交わした。しかし、和やかな雰囲気はすぐに崩れた。
最初の質問は、トランプ氏による連邦最高裁判事の指名について。この関連で、バイデン氏が医療保険制度改革について話している途中、トランプ氏が「社会主義にしようとしている」と遮った。
バイデン氏は「うそだ」とやり返したが、トランプ氏は数分後に再び「君は極左のバーニー・サンダース（上院議員）の考えに同意したんだろ」と混ぜっ返す。バイデン氏が「だれもが彼（トランプ氏）はウソつきだと知っている」と非難すると、トランプ氏は顔を紅潮させて「君こそウソつきだ」と応戦した。
その後も、トランプ氏はバイデン氏の発言中に何度も口を挟んだ。バイデン氏が中国との貿易交渉について論じていると、トランプ氏が突然「君の息子は（ロシアから）３５０万ドルをもらった」と根拠を示さずに主張することもあった。
現在、トランプ氏は各種世論調査で劣勢となっている。現職大統領として実績をアピールするのではなく、バイデン氏に「過激左翼」というレッテル貼りをして支持率を下げようという思惑があったとみられる。だが、討論会の品位は損なわれるばかり。
この日の司会役は、ＦＯＸニュースキャスターのクリス・ウォレス氏。同局はトランプ氏に好意的な報道が多いが、ウォレス氏はインタビューでトランプ氏を厳しく追及したこともある。この日も「お互いに２分間、邪魔せずに回答することに同意したでしょ！」「彼に答えさせてください」「やめてください」と何度も制止したが、トランプ氏は聞く耳を持たなかった。
一方、バイデン氏はトランプ氏の挑発的な発言中に下を向いたり、笑顔を見せて余裕を見せようとしたりした。画面の向こうの有権者を意識して直接語りかける場面も目立った。しかし、「過激左翼」と言われると、「頼むから黙ってろ」と一喝。「あなたは米国史上、最悪の大統領だ」「こんな道化とは、話し合うことも難しい」と声を荒らげることもあり、後味の悪さばかりが残った。
Translated text
“The Loser Is Us” Says America After Trainwreck Presidential Debate.
“How you doing, man?”
“How are you doing first?”
“I’m well.”
The night began with an exchange of pleasantries; however, the civil back and forth between the two presidential candidates was short-lived.
The opening question was about Trump’s controversial nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court, which led Biden onto the topic of attempted reforms to the Affordable Health Care Act by the current government. The president defended his stance, in turn claiming that Biden wants to “extinguish” private healthcare in favor of “socialist medicine”.
“That is simply a lie” Biden replied, before Trump expanded on his accusation a few minutes later by adding that his opponent “agreed with Bernie Sanders who is far-left".
“I’m not here to call out his lies, everybody knows he’s a liar” Biden responded, to which the rather flushed looking president clapped back “No. You’re the liar”.
This first exchange set the tone for a debate in which Trump would repeatedly speak over his opponent. At one point, as Biden was discussing trade negotiations with China, the president also brought up unproven claims that Hunter Biden, the former vice president’s son, had received $3.5 million dollars from Russia.
The incumbent president is currently down in the polls, however, instead of focusing on his achievements in office to date, his tactic on the night appeared to be to try and tarnish Biden’s reputation by labelling him as a friend of the radical left. These baseless accusations only undermined the integrity of the debate.
The moderator in charge of the debate was Fox News’ Chris Wallace, a station which has been kind to Trump during his tenure, however, the president struggled during a one-on-one interview with Wallace recently in which many of his claims were scrutinized by the straight-talking news anchor. Throughout this debate too, Wallace tried to be tough with Trump and repeatedly called on him to stop interrupting, saying at various points:
“You’ve agreed to the two minutes, so please let him have it.” “Mr. President, let him answer!” “Mr. President, please stop.” But the president turned a deaf ear to the requests.
Meanwhile, Biden refused to play Trump’s game, allowing him to rant and responding to many of his outlandish comments with nothing more than a bemused grin. Instead, the democratic candidate spoke more to the voters, including one moment where he turned to the camera and addressed the viewers at home directly.
However, the repeated interruptions clearly rattled the former vice president at times, most notably when, after further accusations about his supposed ties to the radical left, an exasperated Biden said, “Will you just shut up, man.”
“You are the worst president America has ever had.” “It's hard to get any word in with this clown.”, he also hit back a short-time later, becoming more combative as the night went on. The cutting exchanges between the two candidates left a bitter aftertaste once all was done and dusted.