副手百老匯觀劇遭刁難 特朗普要求演員道歉

Donald Trump ignited a surprising confrontation on Saturday between his incoming Republican administration and the cast of the Broadway hit Hamilton, setting off furious debate over American principles like free speech, respect and the ability to challenge authority in the Trump era.

週六，唐納德•特朗普(Donald Trump)在即將上臺的共和黨政府與百老匯大熱劇目《漢密爾頓》(Hamilton)的演員之間挑起了一場令人意外的對峙，導致人們就言論自由、尊重以及挑戰權威的能力等美國原則在特朗普時代將何去何從展開激烈討論。

President-elect Trump demanded an apology from the racially diverse cast for making an unusual, politically charged appeal from the stage on Friday night to Vice President-elect Mike Pence, who was in the audience, urging him and Trump to uphold our American values and work on behalf of all of us.

週五晚上，該劇種族多元化的演員陣容在舞臺上向觀衆席中的候任副總統邁克•彭斯(Mike Pence)提出了一個不同尋常的、帶有政治指控意味的請求，敦促他和特朗普堅守我們的美國價值觀，並代表我們所有人的利益。候任總統特朗普要求演員爲此道歉。

Trump, who has stirred bipartisan concern over his habit of attacking those who challenge him, said that the actors had harassed Pence and issued a battle cry to his supporters by saying that the musical’s cast had criticized our wonderful future VP Mike Pence.

因爲習慣於攻擊自己的質疑者而令兩黨感到擔憂的特朗普，宣稱這些演員騷擾了彭斯，還說他們是在批判我們這位了不起的未來副總統邁克•彭斯——這等於是向支持者發出戰鬥的號召。

The clash between the Hamilton actors and Trump captured the sharply divergent feelings of many American voters 11 days after the election: a showdown between the values of multiculturalism on the left, including the world of entertainment, and the conservative principles of the incoming Trump administration, which was backed strongly by working-class white voters and traditional Republicans.

大選結束11天后，《漢密爾頓》的演員和特朗普之間的衝突折射出了存在於許多選民之間的針鋒相對的情緒，體現了包括演藝界在內，左翼陣營的多元文化主義價值觀與得到工薪階層白人選民及傳統共和黨人強烈支持的未來特朗普政府之間的對立。

His maneuver, in two posts to Twitter on Saturday morning, stunned the cast members and, judging by social media, jolted many Americans who are worried about the president-elect’s tolerance for dissent after a campaign in which he was criticized for inflaming racial tensions.

特朗普於週六早上在Twitter上兩度發文，令演員們頗爲錯愕，從社交媒體上的反應看，這也令許多擔心候任總統難以包容異見的美國人感到震驚——早在競選期間，特朗普就因爲煽動種族矛盾而受到了批評。

But it also touched off reaction among other Americans who treasure the traditions and respect of the office of the presidency, and viewed the statement — and the booing of Pence by some theatergoers before the performance — as out of line.

但這件事也在其他那些珍視傳統、認爲總統的權威應當得到尊重的美國人中間引發了反響，他們覺得演員們的聲明以及部分觀衆對彭斯起鬨的舉動有些出格。

Trump seized the moment to generate sympathy for Pence by portraying him as under siege by New York City elites who would go so far as to break tradition and make a political statement from the stage.

特朗普藉此機會爲彭斯博取同情，將其描繪成一個被紐約城內精英圍困的人——那些精英們竟然可以打破傳統，在舞臺上發表政治聲明。

And some artists criticized the Hamilton statement:

一些藝人也批評了《漢密爾頓》演出現場的聲明。

Musician Steven Van Zandt, a bandmate of Bruce Springsteen’s, wrote on Twitter on Saturday: You don’t single out an audience member and embarrass him from the stage.

布魯斯•斯普林斯汀(Bruce Springsteen)的樂隊成員、音樂人史蒂芬•凡•贊特(Steven Van Zandt)週六在Twitter上寫道：你不能挑出一名觀衆，在舞臺上給他難堪。

A terrible precedent to set.

這是一個很糟糕的先例。