Last year, the New York Times placed a rather prescient warning on the front page of its Sunday Opinion section, warning that then-GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump would make good on some of his most troubling promises from the 2024 campaign.

“DONALD TRUMP SAYS HE WILL PROSECUTE HIS ENEMIES ORDER MASS DEPORTATIONS USE SOLDIERS AGAINST CITIZENS PLAY POLITICS WITH DISASTERS ABANDONE ALLIES,” the cover warned in capital letters. “BELIEVE.”

The headline ran last October, but really went viral on Wednesday after Victor Shi, spokesperson for Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, shared a photo of the cover on X.

“This was published a year ago,” Shi wrote on Wednesday. “Everything’s fine”.

As of Friday, her 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, rules or laws. They want us to feel overwhelmed and weak, but we can’t submit. We can’t give up.”

The Times only warned about threats Trump had made publicly, and all of them have come true since he took office for the second time.

The MAGA leader launched mass deportations a week after his inauguration. He has built medieval detention centers, used masked immigration agents to kidnap people off the street, and defied federal judges by deporting immigrants to prisons in South America, all while deploying troops to quell alleged “chaos” in major U.S. cities.

Trump has followed through on virtually all of the threats referenced by The New York Times.
Trump has followed through on virtually all of the threats referenced by The New York Times.

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To be sure, Trump has politicized disasters, using the wildfires that devastated parts of California in January as an opportunity to attack Democrats.

It has also managed to jeopardize long-standing relationships with allied countries around the world, as the newspaper warned. Its announcement of high international tariffs in April sent markets into turmoil, threatening a global recession, or worse.

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The Times had also alluded to possible 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 charged with one count of false statements and one count of obstruction of justice.

Shi pleaded on Wednesday: “We have to stay together and sound the alarm constantly.”