One-upping the Pope
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Donald Trump has shared an AI-generated image depicting himself as Jesus Christ, after calling Pope Leo “terrible” in an unprecedented attack on the leader of the Catholic Church.
In the image, the US President appears in red and white robes. His outstretched hand is healing a sick man, dressed in hospital clothes and laying in a bed. Rays of light come out of his hands.
Posted on his Truth Social platform, it came as the President commented “Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy”. Doubling down, in a later post he said: “I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a nuclear weapon.”
The first American Pope has been critical of the Iran war and the Trump administration’s hard-line immigration policies and enforcement.
Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, said he was “disheartened” by President Trump's comments.
“Pope Leo is not his rival; nor is the Pope a politician. He is the Vicar of Christ who speaks from the truth of the Gospel and for the care of souls,” he said in a statement.
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In a matter of days, MAGA media figures have gone from defending President Donald Trump as God’s chosen president to making the case that he is actually the antichrist.
“In 18 months I went from hesitantly voting for Trump to thinking there’s a decent chance he’s the antichrist,” added Clint Russell, host of the right-wing Liberty Lockdown podcast.
“I genuinely believe Trump is currently demon possessed,” far-right Texas pastor Joel Webbon wrote on X. Hours later, Webbon hosted a livestream where he and several others discussed: “Is Donald Trump the Anti-Christ?”
The Knights Templar Order, a Christian organization based on a medieval military order, wrote of the post that they had “no other choice but to condemn it wholeheartedly and ask for a public apology.”
From Wired:
https://archive.is/DtrnW#selection-1773.0-1797.107
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