Trump news at a glance: president posts AI image comparing himself to Jesus after picking a fight with the pope | Trump administration
Donald Trump managed to perform a miracle on Sunday: he offended and upset many of his conservative Christian supporters.
Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself on Truth Social on Sunday, depicting him as a Jesus Christ-like figure, with divine light emanating from his hands as he heals a stricken man in a hospital bed with a demon from hell floating in the background.
The president has since deleted the post, which also followed a lengthy tirade about Pope Leo XIV on the site the same day, in which he called him “weak on crime” while also suggesting he should “stop pandering to the radical left.”
Trump made the comments after Leo suggested over the weekend that an “illusion of omnipotence” was fueling the US-Israeli war against Iran. Pope Leo later said he did not fear the Trump administration and would continue to speak out against the war.
Trump faced anger from some of his most prominent and loyal supporters, some of whom called his message “disgusting” and “outrageous blasphemy,” urging the president to “beg forgiveness from the American people and then from God.”
The fact that Trump deleted this post is notable because he rarely backs down from things he posts on social media, such as his Easter Sunday post shouting at Iran to “open the damn strait.” [of Hormuz]crazy bastards” and praising “Allah”.
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