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This weekend, after much fanfare, the Boston Globe published a satirical front page, dated a year in the future, imagining a the day-to-day reality of a Trump presidency. Speaking at a rally in Rochester, New York, on Sunday, Trump called the Globe “stupid” and “worthless.”

“How about that stupid Boston Globe, it’s worthless, sold for a dollar,” Trump said. “Did you see that story? The whole front page—they made up a story, they pretended Trump is the president, and they made up the whole front page, it’s a make-believe story, which is really no different from the whole paper—I mean, the whole thing is made up. And I think they’re having a big backlash on that one.”

According to the Globe, the stunt was executed by the paper’s Opinion staff, which is separate from the newsroom and the satirical front page ran in the Opinion section, not on the actual front page of paper. “It is an exercise in taking a man at his word, the accompanying editorial read.

“We delivered copies of the editorial to his campaign because we wanted to make sure he saw what we wrote,” Kathleen Kingsbury, the deputy managing editor of the editorial page, said, in response to Trump’s criticisms. “He [Trump] responded with more empty rhetoric and few details.”

Trump called the piece a “totally dishonest story.”