One Year Ago, Boston Globe Predicted Post-Trump Dystopia; Boy, Were They Wrong

This puts the “fake” in fake news.

A year ago, The Boston Globe imagined its future front page on April, 9, 2017, to be full of headlines reporting on the dystopian future under President Donald Trump. In a 2016 tweet, The Globe described it as, “The front page we hope to never publish.” Their predictions? In a word, wrong. In several words, this is as fake news as fake news gets.

Here’s how The Globe assumed the United States would look after a few months of Trump:

DEPORTATIONS TO BEGIN – President Trump calls for tripling of ICE force; riots continue

Curfews extended in multiple cities

Bank glitch halts border wall work

New libel law targets ‘absolute scum’ in press

Trump on Nobel prize short list

Markets sink as trade war looms

US soldiers refuse orders to kill ISIS families

Newsbusters said this “was an editorial stunt designed to generate anti-Trump publicity across the media, and it worked: ABC, NBC and CNN all ran actual news stories trumpeting the Globe's make-believe headlines.”

And the fact that these faux headlines aren’t even close to a reality makes the fail even funnier. Where The Globe had the Dow Jones average falling to 9,912, it’s actually over 20,000 right now. Markets aren’t sinking, there are no trade wars, and our president isn’t ordering troops to kill the families of Islamic terrorists. The only one with any semblance of reality is the deportations headline, except the only people getting kicked out of this country are criminal illegal aliens.

There’s always next year, Globe editors. Care to take another crack at it?

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