Boston Globe Skewers ‘President Trump’ With Fake Front Page Predicting Dystopian Donald’s Future USA

What Could the Headlines Read Exactly One Year From Today if Donald Trump Is Elected? Take a Look.

President Donald Trump. For many, including the seven out of ten Americans who view him unfavorably, those three words alone bring what some mental health professionals are now recognizing as a source of real and actual stress: “Trump anxiety.” The Boston Globe took those three words and imagined what their front page would look like one year from today if what for many is a nightmare now, comes true.

“Deportations to begin, President Trump calls for tripling of ICE force; riots continue,” is one headline in the Globe’s dystopian fantasy of an America living under President Trump. The headline rings true because it’s exactly what Trump has not only promised, but built his campaign, from day one, upon. The nation’s top law enforcement official, the Globe predicts, would be Attorney General Chris Christie. 

“New Libel law targets ‘absolute scum’ in press,” reads another headline – again, one not far from fantasy, since Trump has promised just that. In fact, all these headlines will likely be true if Trump occupies the Oval Office.

“Markets sink as trade war looms.” 

“US soldiers refuse orders to kill ISIS families.”

Calling their fake front page “an exercise in taking a man at his word,” The Globe’s Editorial Board warns Trump’s “vision of America promises to be as appalling in real life as it is in black and white on the page.”

They do not shy away from calling for action to stop Trump.

“Action doesn’t mean political chicanery or subterfuge,” they caution. “It doesn’t mean settling for an equally extreme — and perhaps more dangerous — nominee in Ted Cruz. If the party can muster the courage to reject its first-place finisher, rejecting the runner-up should be even easier.”

Trump’s vision “demands an active and engaged opposition. It requires an opposition as focused on denying Trump the White House as the candidate is flippant and reckless about securing it,” the Editorial Board writes.

Head over to The Globe for a large version of their fake front page. Below is a smaller one:

 

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