Boston Globe creates fake front page for a theoretical Donald Trump presidency

As part of an anti-Donald Trump editorial, The Boston Globe created a fake front page based on a world where the Republican front-runner won the 2016 presidential election.

The entire front can be read online but will be printed Sunday in the Boston Globe’s Sunday Ideas section, according to Politico.

Written by the paper’s editorial board, the fake front page leads with the headline “Deportations to Begin.” The fake newspaper includes stories about sinking markets thanks to trade wars with China and Mexico, a new libel law and halted work on a Mexico-funded border wall.

There are also teasers for stories of an unmanned NASA probe with “gold leaf trim” and the release of a Trump novel called “A Trumping to Remember,” which is a play on the satirical novel “A Gronking to Remember” written about New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski.

An editorial follows the fake front page.

“The satirical front page of this section attempts to do just that, to envision what America looks like with Trump in the White House,” the editorial states. “It is an exercise in taking a man at his word. And his vision of America promises to be as appalling in real life as it is in black and white on the page. It is a vision that 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 pseudo-front page is dated April 9, 2017.

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