Donald Trump was forced to defend a controversial social media post during a live Fox News segment in Washington after a reporter pressed the US president on why he had shared an image many viewers took to portray him as Jesus Christ. Asked directly about the picture, Trump, 79, insisted it showed him as a doctor, not a religious figure, even as users online branded him 'deranged' and 'worse than Joe Biden.'
The exchange followed several days of growing unease over Trump's recent Truth Social activity, which has included attacks on the Pope and a run of AI-generated religious-style images. The Irish Star reported that the Fox News broadcast cut to a live message from the president, where he was questioned about the now-deleted graphic and his increasingly combative rhetoric. For viewers already unsettled by his age and public slips, the moment fed directly into a comparison with Joe Biden, the predecessor Trump has spent years mocking for gaffes of his own.
