Donald Trump will deliver a televised Bible reading from the Oval Office on 21 April, in what organisers describe as a carefully chosen role for the president in a national 'America Reads The Bible' event, as the White House scrambles to shore up his standing with Christian supporters angered by his recent clash with Pope Leo XIV and an AI image of Trump as Jesus.
The president has been locked in a very public dispute with Pope Leo over his prosecution of the war in Iran, a conflict the pontiff has repeatedly denounced as an 'unjust war.' A fresh poll by Shaw & Company Research and Beacon Research now indicates that a majority of Catholics disapprove of Trump amid the row, suggesting the political cost of defying the Vatican is beginning to register.
