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Source: The Daily Beast
Chilling NYT Cover Goes Viral After Trump Confirms Its Worst Fears
Josh Fiallo
Thu, October 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM EDT
2 min read
A prophetic cover from The New York Times opinion section has gone viral on the anniversary of its original publication.
The year-old page came from a Sunday edition published in October 2024a week-and-a-half before President Donald Trump won his return to the White House. In all caps, it warned what a second, clearly darker, Trump presidency would entail.
DONALD TRUMP SAYS HE WILL PROSECUTE HIS ENEMIES, ORDER MASS DEPORTATIONS, USE SOLDIERS AGAINST CITIZENS, PLAY POLITICS WITH DISASTERS, ABANDON ALLIES, it read in dramatic ALL CAPS text. BELIEVE HIM.
The cover was reshared on Wednesday by Victor Shi, a spokesperson and new media director for Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. His post racked up tens of thousands of likes.
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Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/chilling-nyt-cover-goes-viral-214330000.html
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CaliforniaPeggy
(156,619 posts)mercuryblues
(16,407 posts)But people who wanted "cheaper eggs" voted for him anyway.
CaliforniaPeggy
(156,619 posts)Volaris
(11,692 posts)WHITE eggs.
littlemissmartypants
(33,572 posts)erronis
(23,849 posts)Those racist, RW idiots didn't care any more about the price of eggs than the Germans attacking the Jews in Germany. It's xenophobia and tribalism.
Katinfl
(809 posts)Let alone a woman of color.
yardwork
(69,357 posts)The same people who complained about prices under Biden now insist that prices are down.
travelingthrulife
(5,178 posts)and can't afford one. I have heard nothing about this since....
irisblue
(37,503 posts)The clowns in Dearborn-Metro Detroit didn't help.
a kennedy
(35,969 posts)caraher
(6,359 posts)They did believe it and voted for it, on purpose.
Callie1979
(1,350 posts)Because so far it doesnt affect THEM.
But MAGA doesnt win elections; they're about 30% of the GOP vote
Independents win elections. And we need to understand why NOW & quit coming up with other excuses.
PatSeg
(53,213 posts)No surprises for us, except for how quickly it has all unfolded.
kerry-is-my-prez
(10,268 posts)And every Republican in Congress. Also the RW news networks who are going right along with it. They really are scum. He is basically mentally ill with Dementia on top of it.
PatSeg
(53,213 posts)I can almost understand some poorly educated, low IQ people going along with all this crap, but when we see highly educated people accepting such a nightmare, it is beyond comprehension. There certainly are some major flaws with our species.
Martin68
(27,724 posts)AllyCat
(18,837 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(10,484 posts)--warning about the travesty that reasonable, attentive people already knew would unfold if the Insurrectionist in Chief were given such power again--but everywhere else print pieces pretending hes just a regular R prep. Those NYT fuckers are complicate & duplicitous.
MaineBlueBear
(457 posts)Fox, newsmax, oan explicitly.
Abc, CBS, mbc, CNN both sides bs.
And please don't cite specific programs. They're produced by networks that are only as liberal as their corporate owners allow them to be.
There is no liberal media on TV. Turn it off and walk away.
Believe it. Republicans did not.
Just Jerome
(492 posts)drama of that cover with all of the sane washing and other hijinks of NYT and do that math.
Yeah
Grins
(9,453 posts)Three years later I was telling them - Next time we tell what a rat bastard Trump is - BELIEVE US!
They still didnt.
Totally Tunsie
(11,850 posts)Both he and his father should have been in jail in the 1970s, but, just as now, they were able to buy off all their judgments and walk away. No one would listen, let alone believe he was so evil. They knew him only as the phenomenal millionaire that Mark Burnett scripted for him on The Apprentice. Burnett owes the world an apology written in his own blood.
róisín_dubh
(12,334 posts)Hes always been a con artist scumbag
travelingthrulife
(5,178 posts)be in this position. He would have done jail time for all his fraud and money laundering.
spanone
(141,577 posts)just listen to the first few minutes to hear Comer's astounding answer on trmps corruption
comer Simpson
Shucksdangdarngolly
Callie1979
(1,350 posts)travelingthrulife
(5,178 posts)came from farmer world.
mountain grammy
(29,029 posts)Im so disappointed in America. I honestly believed we were progressing, however slowly.
3catwoman3
(29,398 posts)
that our country was growing up, so to speak, and I was so excited. Then all the racist haters slithered out from under their rocks and shower me how wrong I was.
Nay, not slithered, they came rushing out, and their numbers were horrifyingly large. Many, many more than I had realized.
mountain grammy
(29,029 posts)It was shocking to me.. I'm not naive, I lived in the openly segregated south in the 50's and the more subdued segregated rest of America from California to Connecticut. but, when Obama won, in an actual landslide, I finally had hope for the future.. well so did racists and they won.
sop
(18,592 posts)on the "hated liberals," deny healthcare and education to undeserving non-whites, and support Russia instead of NATO and other traditional alliances. They believed him, and voted for the things Trump promised them.
KS Toronado
(23,727 posts)Long article and worth the read........
https://medium.com/@richardjohnson_38321/the-new-york-times-warned-you-about-trump-a046262f1ad8

thought crime
(1,556 posts)And there was a great deal of criticism of "apocalyptic" rhetoric from Democrats and mainstream or progressive media, but it seems to have been spot on. And here we are, baking in Hell.
BWdem4life
(3,003 posts)NH Ethylene
(31,342 posts)They should have written 'flaunted' or 'trampled on' or 'defied.'
travelingthrulife
(5,178 posts)llmart
(17,610 posts)Our print media is owned by the same people as television media. They all tiptoe around parsing their articles so they don't look "too biased". In the meantime the general populace doesn't get told how dire the circumstances are and who is mostly responsible.
Mz Pip
(28,453 posts)snd why he is still at 37%. A third of the country is just fine with all of this.
riversedge
(80,793 posts)and yet, here we are!!
Doodley
(11,906 posts)The man has been a one-man wrecking ball since he was child. Thusly, every issue (or non-issue) he touches as President ends up a total failure for our nation, at home and abroad, as well. It proves one thing: A country is NOT a corporation.
PCIntern
(28,361 posts)Al Gore was boring and they didnt like his choice of suits which he was wearing!!!
Ill bet they dont reprint that editorial.
dalton99a
(94,106 posts)
CoopersDad
(3,328 posts)Magoo48
(6,721 posts)calimary
(89,997 posts)Sometimes that becomes attractive to people. Especially if they've had to weather some trump storms they weren't expecting (and that he said NOTHING to warn them about).