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川普周五(11月15日)将他的两名竞选发言人提升为即将上任的政府中的高级通讯角色。
川普任命他的竞选发言人Steven Cheung(张振𤋮)为他的白宫通讯主任。他的竞选全国新闻秘书卡罗琳·莱维特将担任白宫新闻秘书。
通讯主任的职位与新闻秘书的职位是分开的,尽管过去有人同时兼任这两个职位。
张(振𤋮)将继续担任总统的助手。在川普的第一任期内,他是战略回应主任。长久以来,张先生一直被认为是特朗普的斗志高涨的捍卫者,但他的角色主要在幕后。他在社交媒体上很活跃,是老板川普的有力捍卫者。
在川普的第一个任期内,这个白宫通讯主任职位的更替异常频繁。在那个任期内有六个人在七次不同的任期内担任这个职位,没有一个任期超过一年。
安东尼·斯卡拉穆奇在川普的第一个任期内臭名昭著地只担任了11天。川普的另一位白宫通讯主管斯蒂芬妮·格里沙姆自离任以后也与前老板分手。
在为川普的2016年首次竞选工作之前,张是终极格斗锦标赛UFC的发言人。UFC和当选总统川普之间的关系很紧密;川普经常在UFC的比赛中坐在赛场边,UFC主席兼首席执行官达娜·怀特是川普的长期朋友,她在今年夏天的共和党全国代表大会上发表了讲话。
张在竞选期间处理了川普的几起有新闻价值的事件,包括阿灵顿国家公墓发生的事件,川普竞选团队成员与公墓工作人员发生了明显的对抗,招致了来自军队的谴责。张承诺发布显示那次对峙的视频,但从未做到。
川普在一份声明中说:“自2016年我第一次竞选总统以来,张(振𤋮)一直是我信任的顾问,并在我的第一个任期内一直倡导‘美国优先’原则,直到我们2024年的历史性胜利。我很高兴他能加入我的白宫,让美国再次伟大!”
(以上内容译自CNN)
谁是Steven Cheung?(以下内容来自维基百科,英文不太好的读者可以用手机微信翻译成中文阅读)
Huyen "Steven" Cheung (Chinese: 張振𤋮,born June 23, 1982) is an American political advisor serving as President-elect Donald Trump's campaign spokesman in the 2024 United States presidential election. He previously worked in Trump's 2016 and 2020 campaigns. He also worked in communications for the sports organization Ultimate Fighting Championship based in Las Vegas, Nevada.
In November 2024, he was appointed as White House Communications Director to serve in the incoming Donald Trump administration.
Cheung was born in Sacramento, California, to Chinese parents who had immigrated to the U.S., and was raised in Sacramento. He was a high school football player. He attended California State University, Sacramento, majoring in computer science and political science.
Political campaigns and UFC
As a college student in 2003, Cheung became an intern in then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's communications and speechwriting office in California. He moved to Washington, D.C. in 2008 to work on John McCain's presidential campaign. Cheung has served on the campaigns of Steve Poizner for California governor, Sharron Angle for U.S. Senate, and Texas Lt. Governor David Dewhurst for U.S. Senate. In 2013, Cheung transitioned into a career with the Ultimate Fighting Championship in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he worked as "a director of communications for public affairs at the UFC". He was involved in the UFC practice of banning reporters critical of the organization from live events.
Trump 2016 campaign and transition
Before then-candidate Donald Trump was nominated as the Republican presidential nominee at the Republican National Convention in 2016, Cheung left his job at the UFC and joined the Trump campaign's communications and press team as Director of Rapid Response. His duties included "keeping the campaign up to date on breaking news and pushing back on false or unbalanced reporting" according to a press release.
Cheung was involved in a statement disavowing support from the Ku Klux Klan and a white supremacist newspaper, who endorsed Trump's campaign. He said, "Mr. Trump and the campaign denounces hate in any form. This publication is repulsive and their views do not represent the tens of millions of Americans who are uniting behind our campaign."
After Trump's victory over Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, Cheung was named as an advisor to the presidential transition team. According to media reports, he was at one point considered for the role of White House Press Secretary. That job ultimately went to Sean Spicer.
Trump White House
Cheung was named as Special Assistant to the President and Assistant Communications Director at the White House on January 19, 2017, one day prior to Trump's inauguration. He was part of a team tasked with helping nominate and confirm Neil Gorsuch to the United States Supreme Court. Gorsuch was eventually confirmed to the Supreme Court by the United States Senate by a 54–45 vote. Shortly after Gorsuch's confirmation, Cheung assumed a different position at the White House.
On August 16, 2017, Cheung was appointed as Special Assistant to the President and Director of Strategic Response. He then worked on the passage of Trump's tax reform bill, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. The bill successfully passed Congress and Trump signed it into law on December 22, 2017.
According to the book Sinking in the Swamp: How Trump's Minions and Misfits Poisoned Washington, Cheung, along with three others, were referred to as "the killers" in the White House by Jared Kushner and Stephen Bannon. They were considered by Bannon to be "innovative and action oriented".
On June 11, 2018, Politico reported Cheung left the White House, amid a contentious period with Chief of Staff John F. Kelly making changes to Trump's White House communications staff. Amid leaks and infighting, Kelly overhauled the communications team, which led to additional departures. It was later revealed that Cheung's annual White House salary was $131,000. Cheung later appeared in a contentious interview with CNN on June 28, 2018, where critics accused him of politicizing the confirmation process of the United States Supreme Court.
Trump 2020 campaign
Politico reported that President Trump's 2020 re-election campaign retained the services of the firm Solgence, which is owned and operated by Cheung. As part of the 2020 campaign, Cheung worked on putting together the Republican National Convention in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
After the 2020 US presidential election, in which Trump was defeated by Joe Biden, Cheung was involved in the Trump campaign's efforts to overturn the election. Despite Trump's baseless claims, according to experts, there has been no evidence of election fraud.
Post-Trump presidency
Cheung was named the spokesman of the Trump 2024 presidential campaign. After Trump was criticized in October 2023 for his statement that undocumented immigrants were "poisoning the blood of our country," echoing language of white supremacists and Adolf Hitler, Cheung responded:
That's a normal phrase that is used in everyday life – in books, television, movies, and in news articles. For anyone to think that is racist or xenophobic is living in an alternate reality consumed with non-sensical [sic] outrage.
After Trump was criticized in November 2023 for using language of fascist dictators by referring to his political opponents as "vermin", Cheung said:
Those who try to make that ridiculous assertion are clearly snowflakesgrasping for anything because they are suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome and their sad, miserable existence will be crushed when President Trump returns to the White House.
Cheung was a senior advisor on the 2022 U.S. Senate campaign of former Missouri Governor Eric Greitens, who resigned amid allegations of sexual assault and campaign finance impropriety.
Axios reported that Cheung joined as senior advisor to reality star Caitlyn Jenner's unsuccessful gubernatorial campaign in California during the 2021 recall election.
Cheung also served as an advisor and spokesperson for former congressman Jim Renacci's 2022 campaign for Ohio governor.
Media outlets reported in 2022 that Cheung began advising cryptocurrency entrepreneur and philanthropist Brock Pierce, a former child star linked to Jeffrey Epstein and the DEN collapse & financial & sex scandal.
Arlington National Cemetery incident
On August 27, 2024, an incident occurred at Arlington National Cemetery in which two Trump staffers, Justin Caporale and Michel Picard, shoved a cemetery employee who was trying to stop the Trump team from photographing and video recording a campaign promotion in a heavily restricted area of the cemetery known as Section 60, a burial site that is primarily reserved for veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. A federal law prohibits the use of U.S. military facilities, cemeteries in particular, for political campaigns.
Cheung baselessly asserted the woman was "suffering from a mental health episode," which military officials said was false. He alleged the cemetery employee "initiated physical contact that was unwarranted and unnecessary" and said the campaign would release video to support its account, which it never did. The cemetery employee filed an incident report with military officials, but declined to press charges, fearing retribution from Trump supporters. Cheung characterized that concern as "ridiculous and sounds like someone who has Trump Derangement Syndrome". The Trump campaign posted a TikTok video of the visit the next day, during which Trump is heard criticizing the Biden-Harris administration for the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.
MAGA Inc.
As of 2023, Steven Cheung was the communications director of Trump's MAGA Inc. super PAC.