Trump’s now-deleted post sparked the wrath of some of his loyal conservative Christian followers – key US politics stories from Monday 13 April at a glance
Donald Trump managed to pull off a bit of a miracle on Sunday: he offended and upset many of his conservative Christian followers.
Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself to 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 catering to the radical left”.
Trump made the comments after Leo suggested over the weekend that a “delusion of omnipotence” was fuelling the US-Israel war on Iran. Pope Leo later said he did not fear the Trump administration and would continue to speak out against war.
