President Donald Trump shared an AI-generated image of him with Jesus.
Trump reposted the image Wednesday to Truth Social from an account on X.
“The Radical Left Lunatics might not like this, but I think it is quite nice!!!” Trump wrote.
The original post on X was captioned, “I was never a very religious man…but doesn’t it seem, with all these satanic, demonic, child sacrificing monsters being exposed…that God might be playing his Trump card!”
The AI-created image shows Jesus embracing Trump with an American flag behind them.
This post comes after the president received backlash for posting another image where he appeared to depict Jesus healing a man.
Some of his allies were quick to call the post blasphemous and call for it to be removed.
Conservative political activist Riley Gaines wrote on X early Monday, “Why? Seriously, I cannot understand why he’d post this. Is he looking for a response? Does he actually think this?”
“Either way, two things are true,” she wrote. “1) a little humility would serve him well 2) God shall not be mocked.”
Conservative political commentator Michael Knowles wrote, “I assume someone has already told him, but it behooves the President both spiritually and political to delete the picture, no matter the intent.”
Trump later deleted the post and said he thought it was depicting him as a doctor.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Tuesday that he was the one who told him he should take it down.
“I talked to the president about it as soon as I saw it and told him that I don’t think it was being received in the same way he intended it,” Johnson said. “He agreed and he pulled it down. That was the right thing to do.”
Wednesday’s post came as the Knights of Columbus separately weighed in on another Truth Social post by Trump earlier this week that heavily criticized Pope Leo XIV. In that post, Trump called the pontiff “WEAK on Crime and terrible for foreign policy” for his stance against the Iran war.
Supreme Knight Patrick Kelly defended the pope, saying he has “consistently called for peace, dialogue, and restraint in a world marked by war and suffering.”
“The Holy Father’s words are not political talking points — they are reflections of the Gospel itself,” Kelly wrote. “Whether one agrees or disagrees with particular policy judgments, the Holy Father’s prophetic voice deserves to be heard with respect and engaged seriously.”
