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 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 earlier 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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