Before he depicted himself as Jesus Christ healing the sick, Donald Trump assailed Pope Leo XIV as “weak” and told him to “get his act together.” Months earlier, the White House posted an AI-generated image of Trump as the head of the Catholic church before the president declared, “I’d like to be pope.”
Trump’s latest posts were immediately met with a wave of criticism from Christian allies who have thus far aligned with the president’s volatile agenda. The comments were swift and explicit: “grotesquely wrong,” “dangerous,” “rank blasphemy.”
