Featured Image Credit: Truth Social / @RealDonaldTrump
Topics: Donald Trump, Pope Leo, US News
Phoebe Tonks
Topics: Donald Trump, Pope Leo, US News
Donald Trump has once again courted controversy after he shared a new image on social media, which featured him being comforted by Jesus Christ - mere days after he was condemned for sharing a ‘blasphemous’ AI image which appeared to depict him as the Christian figure himself.
"The Radical Left Lunatics might not like this, but I think it is quite nice!!! President DJT," he captioned the latest post, which featured Jesus with his arm around the President’s shoulders as he looked sombre.
The fresh post comes just days after Trump posted the original ‘blasphemous’ image on Sunday, which saw Trump dressed in a robe and appearing to ‘heal’ a man,, a few moments after he had launched a scathing attack on Pope Leo XIV.
The image features Trump healing a man who appears to be in a hospital bed and surrounded by nurses and soldiers, however some critics have also suggested the man in the bed bears a striking resemblance to Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and late sex offender.
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Heaven also appears to be represented behind him and above him, alongside famous American monuments, including the Statue of Liberty and the Lincoln Memorial.
A massive American flag and several warplanes and eagles float in the sky near the depiction of heaven.
"Trump is now posting AI images of himself as Jesus Christ healing, what appears to be, a young Jeffrey Epstein," Democratic commentator Harry Sisson posted on X, attaching a screenshot of the Truth Social post. Another user commented under it, "That is some blasphemous bulls***.”
Following an intense backlash, including among his own supporters, Trump removed the post from Truth Social, however his defence for the image only caused more problems.
When grilled by reporters about the image, Trump acknowledged posting the picture, telling reporters he thought it was ‘me as a doctor’.
Speaking to reporters several hours after it was removed on Monday, Trump said he believed the image depicted him as a doctor next to a Red Cross worker.
"It's supposed to be as a doctor making people better," he said. "And I do make people better. I make people a lot better."
He later told CBS News, that he removed the image because he 'didn't want to have anybody be confused. People were confused.’
The controversial image was posted less than an hour after the US president attacked the pope, calling him 'weak on crime’ and ‘terrible for foreign policy’.
Pope Leo - the first American Pope - has repeatedly and openly condemned the war in Iran, saying it has led to ‘absurd and inhuman violence’.
The pope said on Monday that he has ‘no fear’ of the Trump administration or ‘speaking out loudly of the message of the Gospel, which is what I believe I am here to do.’