Americans overwhelmingly disapprove of the religious rhetoric deployed by President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in recent weeks — and, in contrast, view Pope Leo XIV positively as the pontiff has hit back at the administration, according to a poll.
Trump’s Truth Social post of an AI-generated image depicting him as Jesus, which he was forced to delete after backlash from the religious right, went down incredibly badly with Americans, with 87 percent expressing their disapproval in the Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll.
