Donald Trump has spoken out against the Boston Globe for a satirical front page the paper ran imagining he was the next US president.
The Republican front-runner called the Globe “stupid” and “worthless” for running the fake front page in its Sunday edition. Dated 9 April 2017, the issue illustrates a possible future in which Mr Trump carries out all of his campaign promises.
“Deportations To Begin” the lead headline reads, followed by stories about a falling market, US soldiers’ refusal to kill ISIS families, and libel laws against the “absolute scum” press.
In a corresponding piece by the Globe’s editorial board, they call for Republicans to do “the right thing: putting up every legitimate roadblock to Trump that they can,” and present the future frontpage as “an exercise in taking a man at his word.”
Mr Trump called the Globe’s satire a “totally dishonest story” at a Rochester, New York, rally on Sunday, according to the Associated Press.
The Boston Globe was the subject of the 2015 film, Spotlight, which told the story of the newspaper’s investigative team that exposed a conspiracy within the Catholic Diocese to cover up decades of sexual abuse of altar boys in 2002.
