The US president said he meant to show himself as a doctor 'making people better'
The president posted the image after lashing out at Pope Leo XIV.
The president posted an AI image of himself as a Christ-like figure healing a man.
President Donald Trump in May 2025 posted an apparent AI image depicting himself as a Catholic pope after the death of Pope Francis.
The US president claimed, against all plausibility, that the image he posted on social media showed him as a doctor, but he was forced to take it down. The post, along with his lengthy tirade against Leo XIV, left…
Right-wing Christian figures and MAGA allies condemned the president’s AI-generated image as blasphemy
The post came just hours after the president posted a lengthy message critical of Pope Leo.
El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, ha publicado una imagen en la que se muestra encarnando a la figura de Jesucristo
The US president’s conservative, Christian supporters decried the Truth Social post, calling it ‘disgusting’
Donald Trump sostiene che l'immagine pubblicata su Truth, e poi rimossa, nella quale lo si vedeva con le sembianze di Gesù mentre benediceva qualcuno è un'invenzione dei media…
“Only the fake news could come up with that one," he said of the AI-generated image he posted showing him seeming to heal a man with his hands.
Representatives from across denominations have responded to a now-deleted image of the president as a Christ-like figure.
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
President claims ‘if I wasn’t in the White House, Leo wouldn’t be in the Vatican’ in Truth Social tirade
Conservative and religious figures offered swift backlash to the picture, which has since been deleted from Trump's Truth Social account.
Jon Stewart, appeared to spot a familiar face in Donald Trump’s controversial “Jesus” image. In the picture, which appears to be AI-generated, the president is depicted in a white…
Ein Bildnis, das Donald Trump als Jesus inszeniert, sorgt für Kritik. Der US-Präsident spielt den Vorfall herunter und spricht von einem Missverständnis. Nach wachsendem Druck…
A Trump post earlier this week depicting himself as a Jesus-like figure sparked outrage from factions of his conservative base.