Trump posts image of himself and Jesus days after Christ depiction

PRESIDENT Donald Trump posted an image of himself alongside Jesus on Wednesday, days after he posted and deleted an image where he appeared to be depicted as Jesus healing the sick.

Trump posted the earlier image depicting him healing an ill man after a clash with Pope Leo XIV over Operation Epic Fury. In the new image, a screenshot of a Wednesday morning post on X, Trump is seen being embraced by Jesus.

The Radical Left Lunatics might not like this, but I think it is quite nice!!!” Trump said.

Trump told reporters during an impromptu press conference on Monday that the image he posted that morning was just a representation of him as “a doctor” and not intended to portray him as Jesus Christ. Trump received criticism for the image from supporters before deleting the post.

“I did post it and I thought it was me as a doctor and had to do with the Red Cross as a Red Cross worker there which we support, and only the fake news could come up with that one,” Trump said.

“So I, I just heard about it and I said, how did they come up with that? It’s supposed to be me as a doctor making people better, and I do make people better.”

Furious responses to Trump’s offensive post included former Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who alleged that Trump was “replacing Jesus.” Journalist Meghan Basham, a self-described “church lady,” deemed the photo “OUTRAGEOUS blasphemy” and demanded the post be taken down.

Before posting the images, Trump criticized Pope Leo, calling him “WEAK” on foreign policy and crime.

“Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy,” Trump posted Sunday. “He talks about ‘fear’ of the Trump Administration, but doesn’t mention the FEAR that the Catholic Church, and all other Christian Organizations, had during COVID when they were arresting priests, ministers, and everybody else, for holding Church Services, even when going outside, and being ten and even twenty feet apart.”

The pope criticized Trump in a Friday post on social media after Trump implied that God supported Operation Epic Fury during an April 6 press conference.

“God does not bless any conflict. Anyone who is a disciple of Christ, the Prince of Peace, is never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs. Military action will not create space for freedom or times of #Peace, which comes only from the patient promotion of coexistence and dialogue among peoples,” the pope posted to X.

The Department of War and the Vatican disputed a report by the Free Press that a meeting between U.S. Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby and Cardinal Christophe Pierre, the Vatican’s ambassador to the United States, went sour in January.

“As confirmed by His Eminence Christophe Pierre, former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, his meeting with Mr. Elbridge Andrew Colby was part of the regular mission of the Papal Representative and provided the opportunity for an exchange of views on matters of mutual interest,” the Vatican said in its statement. “The narrative offered by some media outlets regarding this meeting is completely untrue.”

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Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel blasted Vice President JD Vance for defending Donald Trump after the president posted an AI-generated image online which portrayed him as Jesus.

Trump shared the image on Truth Social Sunday after dubbing Pope Leo XIV as “WEAK” on crime, following the pontiff’s criticism of the U.S. war with Iran. The AI image showed Trump wearing robes and healing a sick man with beams of light coming from his hands.

The post received fierce backlash from Christians and political figures on both sides of the aisle. Trump took the image down on Monday, claiming that he thought it had portrayed him as a doctor, not Jesus.

Vance, who converted to Catholicism in 2019, subsequently claimed the image was “a joke” during an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier Monday. ​But Kimmel was having none of the excuses.

“Trump is doing his best to upset every faction of Christianity,” the Jimmy Kimmel Live! host said Tuesday. “After he lambasted the pope, he posted an image of himself as Jesus, and then when everyone got mad, he said, ‘Oh I didn’t know that was Jesus, I thought that was me as a doctor healing people,’ which is so lame. Not one person believes it. It is quite clearly an image of Jesus with his dumb head on it.”

Kimmel noted that not even Vance was “able to go along with this doctor storyline,” and was forced to come up with an entirely different narrative.

The late-night host then played a clip of Vance on Fox News.

“I think the president was posting a joke, and of course he took it down because he recognized that a lot of people weren’t understanding his humour in that case,” the vice president claimed.

Kimmel then said: “He was posting a joke, you understand? And like all the best jokes, it had to be explained and then deleted. First, he was Jesus. Then he wasn’t Jesus, he was a doctor. And now, it was a joke.”

He added: “Why did I get kicked off the air again? I can’t remember.”

Kimmel’s show was suspended in September over comments he made about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed during a live debate on a Utah college campus.

During the show, Kimmel said that the MAGA world was “desperately trying to characterise this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”

ABC brought Jimmy Kimmel Live! back on air the following week.

Meanwhile, Trump seems unfazed by the Jesus image furor. On Wednesday, the president shared another image on Truth Social that showed Jesus hugging him.

The new image, which appeared to be AI-generated, shows Jesus with an arm around Trump’s shoulder and one hand on his chest. The two are standing in front of a halo of light and an American flag, and have their heads leaning against each other.

Trump captioned the image: “The Radical Left Lunatics might not like this, but I think it is quite nice!!! President DJT.”