Shortly after William Barr, the US attorney-general, held a press conference to pronounce Donald Trump’s across-the-board innocence, the president tweeted “Game over: no collusion. No obstruction”. Leaving aside the fact that Mr Trump’s meme borrowed from the Game of Thrones — the television drama that centres on a gold-hunting family that keeps its grip on power through fear and foreign alliances — his message offered a poor summary of what was to come.
在美國司法部長威廉?巴爾(William Barr)召開新聞發布會宣布唐納德?特朗普(Donald Trump)完全無罪后不久,這位美國總統在Twitter上寫道:“游戲結束:沒有勾結。沒有妨礙司法。”撇開特朗普借用《權力的游戲》(Game of Thrones)的海報設計這一事實不談,他發出的這條消息并不能很好地總結未來的事態發展。(《權力的游戲》這部劇主要講述的是一個擁有金礦的家族如何利用恐懼和外部結盟來保持對權力的控制。)