Boston Globe’s Satire About President Trump
Yesterday, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page for its Sunday “Ideas” section
. Dated April 9, 2017, the page is shown above. The accompanying story has Donald Trump calling on Congress to fund a deportation program amid protests.
Another article in the Globe edition mentions work being halted on a wall at the Mexico border. There’s also a short item about backlash Trump received after tweeting a photo of his new dog he named “Madame Peng,” after China’s first lady Peng Liyuan.
In an editorial, the Globe called the satire “an exercise in taking a man at his word.” Trump has derided the Globe and its satire. In response to Trump’s comments, the newspaper’s opinion staff defended the editorial, saying “we delivered copies of the editorial to his campaign because we wanted to make sure he saw what we wrote.”
KJ