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LOADINGERROR LOADING The New York Times last year plastered a rather prophetic warning across the front page of its Sunday Opinion section, cautioning that the Republican Party’s then-presidential nominee, Donald Trump, would follow through with some of his most troubling promises from the 2024 campaign trail. “DONALD TRUMP SAYS HE WILL PROSECUTE HIS ENEMIES ORDER MASS DEPORTATIONS USE SOLDIERS AGAINST CITIZENS PLAY POLITICS WITH DISASTERS ABANDON ALLIES,” the cover warned in all-capital letters. “BELIEVE HIM.” Advertisement The headline was published last October, but went truly viral Wednesday after Victor Shi, a spokesperson for Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, shared a photo of the cover on X. “This was published one year ago,” Shi wrote Wednesday. “Everything is right.” As of Friday, his post had garnered 87,000 likes and 1.5 million views. “And we are only 10 months into this administration,” Shi wrote in a separate post. “They move fast. They break things. They have no regard for history or norms or laws. They want us to feel overwhelmed and weak, but we can’t submit. We can’t give up.” Advertisement The Times warned only about threats Trump had publicly made himself, and they’ve all come true since he took office for a second time. The MAGA leader launched mass deportations within a week of his inauguration. He’s built medieval detention centers, used masked immigration agents to snatch people off the street and defied federal judges by deporting migrants to prisons in South America — all while deploying troops to quell purported “bedlam” in major U.S. cities. Advertisement Trump has certainly politicized disasters, using the wildfires that devastated parts of California in January as an opportunity to attack Democrats. He has also managed to jeopardize longstanding relationships with allied countries around the world, as the paper forewarned. His announcement of steep international tariffs in April sent markets into major upheaval, threatening a global recession — or worse. Forget BallroomsHelp Build aNewsroom Your SupportFuelsOur Mission Your SupportFuelsOur Mission Become a HuffPost Member When power gathers under golden ceilings, real journalism stands outside, asking the questions that matter. Join HuffPost Membership and keep independent reporting strong for everyone. We remain committed to providing you with the unflinching, fact-based journalism everyone deserves. Thank you again for your support along the way. We’re truly grateful for readers like you! Your initial support helped get us here and bolstered our newsroom, which kept us strong during uncertain times. Now as we continue, we need your help more than ever. We hope you will join us once again. We remain committed to providing you with the unflinching, fact-based journalism everyone deserves. Thank you again for your support along the way. We’re truly grateful for readers like you! Your initial support helped get us here and bolstered our newsroom, which kept us strong during uncertain times. Now as we continue, we need your help more than ever. We hope you will join us once again. Support HuffPost Already a member? Log in to hide these messages. The Times had further alluded to potential political arrests during Trump’s second term. In September, former FBI Director James Comey, who investigated possible collusion between Russia and Trump’s first presidential campaign in 2016, was indicted on one count of making false statements and one count of obstruction of justice. Advertisement
