QA：唐纳德·特朗普能成为英国首相吗？据我所知，他的母亲是英国人，所以他可以申请英国国籍并成为首相吗？

David Lascelles
Citizenship doesn't matter. Boris Johnson was born in the US. David Lloyd George was Welsh (shocking, I know) and Tony Blair was Catholic!
Yes, I'm being silly… but the fact is, we don't have anything constitutional limits on Citizenship for political office.
We even had some women and people of colour in the top job. More radically we've had actual commoners, real non nobility in charge. PMs of the past, all those Lords and Sirs, would have dropped their monocles in shock at the thought.
Seriously, its not his American Citizenship that would be a barrier. It's the fact he would need to lead a party that had the numbers to claim enough seats in Parliament to gain a Majority. Its hard to do that on money and personality alone. Especially as there are strict rules on campaign donations and Trump has a personality many Brits want to punch.
Farage, our New Trump Lite, is making political waves and has support among some sections of the population. However, hes still only head of a small party that can only realistically gain power in a coalition where Farage would have to play second fiddle to (likely) a Tory PM. In the last election Reform gained one seat in the commons, which is their best performance yet, but is hardly at the level of Kingmaker. They gained one council (apparently not expecting to win…) and haven't been getting good press for their work there.
That's likely where Trump would sit. At best the leader of a small party with maybe one or two seats. And to achieve that, he'd have to work hard. Actually work not just say he's working and play golf all day. And all for a salary I suspect he wouldn't even use to wipe his arse and a lot stricter restrictions on outside activities like owning companies or taking bribes.

公民身份并不重要。鲍里斯·约翰逊出生在美国。大卫·劳合·乔治是威尔士人（我知道这很令人震惊），托尼·布莱尔是天主教徒！
是的，我在装傻……但事实是，我们宪法并没有对公民身份在政治职位上的限制。
我们甚至有一些女性和有色人种担任过最高职位。更激进的是，我们曾让真正的平民，真正的非贵族出身的人掌权。过去的首相，所有那些贵族，想到这一点都会震惊地掉下眼镜。
说真的，他的美国公民身份不会成为障碍。他需要领导一个拥有足够多席位的政党，才能在议会中获得足够多的席位，从而获得多数席位。仅靠金钱和人格魅力很难做到这一点。尤其是在竞选捐款受到严格限制，而特朗普的个性又让许多英国人都想揍他一顿的情况下。
奈杰尔·法拉奇(英国改革英国党党首)，我们的“新特朗普”派，正在政治上掀起波澜，并获得了部分民众的支持。然而，他仍然只是一个小党派的领袖，这个小党派只有在联合政府中才能真正获得权力，而法拉奇将不得不屈居于（很可能是）保守党首相之下。在上次选举中，改革党在下议院获得了一个席位，这是他们迄今为止最好的表现，但远未达到“王者制造者”的水平。他们获得了一个市议会席位（显然他们并不指望获胜……），而且在那里的工作并没有得到媒体的好评。特朗普很可能也会坐到这个位置上。充其量，他是一个拥有一两个席位的小党派的领袖。要做到这一点，他必须努力工作。真正的工作，而不仅仅是说他已经整天在工作了和打高尔夫。而这一切都是为了一份薪水，我怀疑这点钱不够他用来擦屁股的，而且对他的外部活动（比如拥有公司或收受贿赂）也受到更严格的限制。


Tony Austin
If he renounced his American citizenship and became leader of a British political party, by some miracle, then ran for Prime Minister. Not a chance in Hell, he would be the first candidate in living history to be laughed out of Parliament.
We have watched him cause chaos with wide eyed amazement over the last few months, as he’s driven the American economy into the ground and threatened to destabilise the world’s trade markets. So no he would NEVER be Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. We like order here, even if our current PM is a lying, two faced cock. It’s what we’re stuck with, even if I didn’t vote for it. But at least nobody’s laughing at us.

如果他放弃美国国籍，奇迹般地成为英国政党领袖，然后竞选首相。这绝对不可能，他会成为历史上第一个被嘲笑并被赶出议会的候选人。
过去的几个月里，我们目瞪口呆地看着他制造混乱，他把美国经济拖入深渊，并威胁要破坏世界贸易市场的稳定。所以，他永远也当不了英国首相。我们喜欢秩序，即使我们现任首相是个撒谎的两面派。即使我没有投票支持，即使我们只能接受现状。但至少没人嘲笑我们。


John Henry
Your question shows an ignorance of politics outside the US.
While technically Mr Tangerine Man could gain citizenship of the UK - I imagine that he would have to live there first for a period of time first - he would need to find a party to accept him, and an electorate to accept him as a normal Member of Parliament. Then he would need to rise through the party to become leader. THEN, that party would need to win the election. Only then, might he become the PM - in 10–15 years after being chosen by a group of ordinary voters in a particular electorate. Add that to the 3–5 years to gain citizenship.
He is already too old to be in the office he currently holds.

你的问题，显示出你对美国以外政治的无知。
虽然严格来说，橘子先生可以获得英国公民身份——我想他得先在英国居住一段时间——但他需要找到一个政党接受他，并得到一个选区接受他成为正式议员。然后，他需要通过该政党晋升成为领导人。接下来，该政党需要赢得选举。只有这样，他才有可能成为首相——在特定选区被一群普通选民选出后，需要10到15年的时间。再加上获得公民身份所需的3到5年时间。
他已经太老了，不适合担任他现在的职务了。


Ken Allen
No. The UK has a parliamentary system, not a presidential one. You don't “run for PM”.
To be prime minister, you need to be the head of the party that gets the most parliamentary seats.
To even have a remote chance to become PM, Trump would need to join, or found, a party capable of winning a majority in the parliament (forget founding a new party, the British electoral system also favours bipartisanism).
Trump is very old, knows very little about Britain, and is considered by most British people of all political persuasions as a despicable idiot.
Even if Trump were to get British citizenship and join the Tory party (his most realistic option because there's no way Labour would let him join) he'd be dead of old age long before he'd worked his way up through the party ranks sufficiently to run to lead the party!

不。英国实行的是议会制，而不是总统制。你不能“竞选首相”。
要成为首相，你必须成为获得最多议会席位的政党的领袖。
特朗普要想成为首相，哪怕只有一线希望，也需要加入或创建一个能够在议会中赢得多数席位的政党（别再想着成立新政党了，英国的选举制度也偏向两党合作）。
特朗普年纪很大，对英国知之甚少，而且被大多数英国人（无论政治立场如何）视为卑鄙的白痴。
即使特朗普获得英国公民身份并加入保守党（这是他最现实的选择，因为工党绝对不会让他加入），他也会在党内晋升到足以竞选党魁之前就老死！


Val Pearson
I almost pissed myself laughing. Do you know what is the procedure for becoming a British PM? There's no Electoral College, Bubba, and the number of the uneducated and the gullible is much lower than in the US of A. He wouldn't even make it into the Parliament.

我差点笑尿裤子了。你知道当英国首相的程序是什么吗？英国没有选举团，而且英国受教育程度低的人、容易受骗的人比美国少得多。他甚至进不了议会。

Ken Allen
Without going into too much detail, our more advanced and sophisticated system of democracy tends to eliminate such utterly moronic fools as dementia raddled, daiper Don from becoming the leader of a major political part that would need to win a general election in order to become Prime minister.
Witnessing the chaotic and disastrous mess across the increasingly diss-United States of America caused by the election of a convicted criminal with a record of insurrection, corruption, child abuse and fraud would make his ongoing continuity as tyrant prince of America doubtful and election elsewhere ridiculous.

无需赘述，我们更先进、更成熟的民主制度往往会将像痴呆症缠身、衣衫褴褛的唐这样的彻头彻尾的傻瓜排除在主要政治派别的领导人之外，而这些政党需要赢得大选才能成为首相。
目睹一位有着叛乱、腐败、虐童和欺诈记录的罪犯当选，导致美国日益分裂，并带来混乱和灾难性的破坏，将使他能否继续担任美国的暴君的可能性变得令人怀疑，也使他能否在其他地方当选变得荒谬。

Lily Anderson
No. Well, hypothetically he could move to the UK, live here for five years, apply for British citizenship (his mother is not relevant here), join a political party that has a reasonable chance of winning enough seats to form a government, get elected as a Member of Parliament and eventually become the leader of that party which would mean that if that party is in government he would be Prime Minister.
But apart from the fact that it would take more years than Trump is likely to live, there is no way Trump would ever be elected to anything here, so it would not happen.
Then there are his criminal convictions. He wouldn't be allowed to live here, let alone stand for Parliament.

不。好吧，假设他可以搬到英国，在这里住五年，申请英国公民身份（他母亲的情况与此无关），加入一个有相当大机会赢得足够席位组建政府的政党，当选为议员，并最终成为该政党的领袖。这意味着，如果该政党执政，他将成为首相。
但撇开这需要比特朗普可能活得更久的时间不谈，特朗普根本不可能在这里当选任何职位，所以这根本不可能发生。
此外，还有他的犯罪记录。他不被允许在这里居住，更不用说竞选议员了。


John Hudson
Do you really imagine becoming PM, is as easy as becoming the POTUS? Having huge amounts of money does not guarantee it. First thing they have to be elected as an MP, not likely for Trump. Then they need to be chosen as the leader of a political party, that has enough seats to form a Government. Any party that took him on, as leader, would never get enough seats to form a Government, the elctorate would see to that.

你真的以为当首相和当总统一样容易吗？拥有巨额财富并不能保证成功。首先，他们必须当选议员，而特朗普不太可能。然后，他们需要被选为一个拥有足够席位组建政府的政党的领导人。任何推选他为领导人的政党，都永远无法获得足够的席位组建政府，选民们会知道的。


Marv Amos
Can the most despised piece of shit American become the British PM? If he were to renounce his USA citizenship, become leader of a political party and be elected, sure. Would this ever happen? Not a snowballs chance in hell.

最受鄙视的美国人能当上英国首相吗？如果他放弃美国国籍，成为一个政党领袖并当选，那当然可以。这真的会发生吗？绝对不可能。

Christopher Luxford
The short answer is no he can’t. I will, however, give a longer answer.
Trump’s mother being British does not entitle him to British citizenship, but if he were to move to Britain permanently then he could apply for citizenship after five years, having first secured Indefinite Leave to Remain.
Once he has citizenship he would be eligible to stand for election to Parliament. He would need to be sexted by a Political Party as their candidate. The parties each have their own rules for sexting candidates, and most candidate have a long history of activism within the party, although this is not always essential if a candidate has a high profile already, which Trump obviously does. The question then would be how likely is it that he would win if sexted? Much would depend on the seat of course, but in general Trump does not come across as the sort of person who is popular with British voters. Even if we overlook his inability to string a coherent sentence together, he is brash and overbearing in a way that often rankles in Britain. He also comes across as a bully, and his misogyny and racism will find him few political allies in mainstream politics.


简短的回答是，他不能。不过，我会给出一个更长的答案。
特朗普的母亲是英国人，但这并不意味着他有资格获得英国公民身份，但如果他永久移居英国，那么他可以在五年后申请英国公民身份，前提是他必须先获得英国永久居留权。
一旦获得英国公民身份，他就有资格参加议会选举。他需要被一个政党选为候选人。每个政党都有各自的候选人遴选规则，大多数候选人都有长期的党内活动经验，但如果候选人本身就很有名气，这一点就并非总是必需的，而特朗普显然就拥有很高的知名度。那么问题来了，如果他被选中，获胜的可能性有多大？当然，这很大程度上取决于选出的席位，但总的来说，特朗普给人的印象并不是那种受英国选民欢迎的人。即使我们忽略他连贯性差的句子，他的傲慢专横在英国人中也传得相当普遍。他给人一种恃强凌弱的印象，他的厌女症和种族主义使他在主流政治中几乎没有任何政治盟友。


Even if he does get himself elected to Parliament, he would still need to become party leader in order to have any chance at all of becoming PM. He would first need to wait for there to be a vacancy, and there is no telling how long he would have o wait for that. It is unlikely that he would be seriously considered as a candidate without at least some font bench experience, so not until he had been in Parliament for several years. The fat of his having been President of the USA might help him, but as the job bears so little resemblance to anything in British politics, it is more likely to be a hindrance.
If he does become Party Leader then he only become PM if that party has a majority of the seats in the house of Commons, or if it is the largest party in a coalition.
So, in theory it would be possible for Trump to became a British citizen and rise through the ranks to become Prime Minister, but the odds would be stacked against him even if he wasn’t already 78 years old and facing a process that would take at least a decade, and more likely two. AS he has four years ahead of him as US President, and obviously can’t apply for British citizenship while he is in that role, he would not be able to begin the process until he is 82, would be 87 before even being eligible to stand for Parliament and there is simply no likelihood of somebody that old becoming Party Leader, and very little chance of them being sexted as a Parliamentary candidate as there is no guarantee that they would live long enough to actually be elected.

即使他真的当选议员，他仍然需要成为党魁才能有机会成为首相。他首先需要等待出现空缺，而这需要等待多久还不得而知。如果没有一些副议席经验，他不太可能被认真考虑作为候选人，所以除非他在议会任职数年。他曾担任美国总统的经历或许对他有帮助，但由于这份工作与英国政坛几乎没有相似之处，这更有可能成为阻碍。
如果他真的成为党魁，那么只有当该党在下议院拥有多数席位，或者成为联合政府中最大的政党时，他才能成为首相。
因此，理论上，特朗普有可能成为英国公民，并逐步晋升成为首相，但即使他不是已经78岁高龄，并且面临至少需要十年甚至更可能二十年的过程，他的成功几率仍然很小。他还有四年的美国总统任期，显然在担任该职位期间不能申请英国公民身份，所以他要到 82 岁才能开始这一程序，甚至要到 87 岁才有资格竞选议会，而这么老的人根本不可能成为党魁，而且他们被选为议会候选人的机会也很小，因为没有人能保证他们能活得足够长以真正当选。