An editorial featured in the Los Angeles Times depicts witches casting a spell on President Donald Trump.

The major West Coast newspaper published the “editorial penned by a novelist who says she cast a spell on President Trump last month, believes it is working, and is encouraging others to join her,” as The Christian Post reported May 24.

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The opinion piece, titled “I put a spell on you, Mr. President,” by novelist and essayist Diana Wagman, was published in the LA Times online on May 23.

“I cast a spell on the president,” Wagman wrote. “I was not alone. Thousands of witches, believers, and people like me all over the world performed ‘A Spell to Bind Donald Trump and All Those Who Abet Him’ under the waning crescent moon last month.”

The public Facebook group “Bind Trump,” which is associated with Wagman’s cause, now has over 2,000 members. The group uses the hashtag “#MagicResistance” on its page.

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The spell the woman performed “was not meant to physically hurt [Trump], only to keep him from succeeding at his tasks,” Wagman explained in her commentary.

Meanwhile, the president has been on a very busy and productive nine-day trip to the Middle East and Europe, where he’s met with leaders of the Islamic, Jewish and Christian faiths. Trump met with leaders in Saudi Arabia and Israel, and with Pope Francis at the Vatican in Rome.

“The collective effort among witches to cast binding spells on the president began earlier this year with thousands around the world uttering curses every month at midnight under a waning crescent moon,” The Christian Post reported.

The last crescent moon was May 23.

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Wagman said she found the instructions for the spell she performed online. “I found an orange candle in a box of multicolored ones we use for our Hanukkah menorah,” she wrote. “I printed the required tarot card off the internet and propped it up. I cut an unflattering photo of POTUS out of the newspaper, and I burned it while chanting the words of the spell.”