President Donald Trump front page published by Boston Globe

'Many Americans might find this vision appealing, but the Globe’s editorial board finds it deeply troubling'

Donald Trump's campaign promises are imagined as actual policy in the mocked-up front page (Boston Globe)

The Boston Globe newspaper has printed a satirical front page, imagining what the news would look like if Donald Trump were elected as US president.

"Deportations to Begin", the headline reads, before a story imagining "riots" across America as Mr Trump "set[s] in motion one of his most controversial campaign promises".

The page is led by a large photo of 'President Trump' making an address to the nation, telling his citizens that illegal immigrants will be deported "so fast your head will spin".

“This is Donald Trump’s America," the Globe editorial board write at the bottom of the page, which was printed in the opinions section of the newspaper.

"What you read on this page is what might happen if the GOP front­runner can put his ideas into practice, his words into action. Many Americans might find this vision appealing,but the Globe’s editorial board finds it deeply troubling.”

Stories further down the page imagine "trade wars" with China and Mexico driving down global stock markets, the would-be president ordering US soldiers to kill the families of Isis militants, and the introduction of the LAME [Limiting American Media Entitlement] Act to gag the free press.

Ambassador Kid Rock makes an appearance, as does Trump National Park (formerly Yellowstone). We also learn that Mr Trump's "first romance novel", A Trumping To Remember, has been pulled from shelves after it emerged that "portions were cribbed from a May 1986 edition of Penthouse".

In a strident editorial elsewhere in the paper, the Globe editorial team describe the page as "an exercise in taking a man at his word".

They also refer to Ted Cruz, Mr Trump's main rival for the Republican presidential nomination, as "an equally extreme — and perhaps more dangerous nominee".

Instead, they call on the Republican party to put forward a "plausible, honorable alternative", suggesting relatively moderate candidates such as Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney.

However, that could only happen if neither Mr Trump nor Mr Cruz secured a majority of delegates in the first round of voting at their 2016 Convention. These votes are closely tied to the results of the nationwide Republican primaries, and Mr Trump remains likely to triumph.

If Mr Trump does not secure enough votes first time round, the voting will then open up into more of a free-for-all, enabling a party-backed candidate such as Mr Romney to make a dramatic late entry into the race.

However, not since 1920 has a candidate not in first place after the first round of voting gone on to secure the nomination and then triumph in the presidential election itself.

But it's not all bad news for Trump's America, according to the imagined front page. Their new president, we learn, may be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for healing the "1,385-year-old schism between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims", as they unite in opposition to his regime.