{"id":6264,"date":"2026-04-15T23:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/6264\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T23:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:03:11","slug":"trump-shares-new-ai-image-as-his-feud-with-the-pope-escalates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/6264\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump shares new AI image as his feud with the Pope escalates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kinsey Crowley<br \/>\n\u00a0|\u00a0 USA TODAY<\/p>\n<p>President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0is not backing down from his battle with the Pope, resharing on social media an AI-image that showed him being\u00a0embraced by Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>The latest post shows Trump with an angelic light and the American flag circling him and the AI Jesus It follows another AI-generated image that he posted &#8211; and later took down &#8211; earlier in the week, of himself in red and white robes with a light in one hand and blessing a sick man with the other hand. It evoked imagery of Jesus healing the sick and\u00a0sparked backlash from some\u00a0in his own party. Trump denied that it depicted him as Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought it was\u00a0me as a\u00a0doctor. And it had to do with Red Cross,&#8221; Trump told reporters at the White House on April 13. &#8220;And only the fake news could come up with that one &#8230; I make people a lot better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Radical Left Lunatics might not like this, but I think it is quite nice!!! President\u00a0DJT,&#8221; Trump wrote with the post, which had its own caption reading: &#8220;I was never a very religious man .. but doesn&#8217;t it seem , with all these satanic , demonic , child sacrificing monsters being exposed &#8230; that God might be playing his Trump card !&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\">More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/world\/2026\/04\/15\/pope-leo-attacked-by-donald-trump-says-world-needs-message-of-peace\/89624614007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pope Leo, attacked again by Trump, says world needs message of peace<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump and Vance double down on pope criticism<\/p>\n<p>The first image of Trump &#8220;healing&#8221; someone was posted shortly after he issued a lengthy criticism of\u00a0Pope Leo XIV. Pope Leo has\u00a0directly criticized the war in Iran and Trump&#8217;s harsh language, like last week&#8217;s threat that &#8220;a whole civilization will die tonight.&#8221; Trump called the pope &#8220;WEAK on Crime,&#8221; and took credit for Leo&#8217;s selection to the papacy in an April 12 Truth Social post.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Leo responded to the post on April 13 while talking to reporters, saying, &#8220;I have no fear with neither the Trump administration, nor speaking out loudly about the message of the Gospel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vice President\u00a0JD Vance, a Catholic, also said the pope should be careful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it&#8217;s very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology,\u201d Vance said at a Turning Point USA rally. &#8220;I like that the pope is an advocate for peace. I think that\u2019s certainly one of his roles. On the other hand, how do you say that God is never on the side of those who wield the sword?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump has pushed forward with talking about Pope Leo in an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116406622416293152\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">April 14 Truth Social post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Will someone please tell Pope Leo that Iran has killed at least 42,000 innocent, completely unarmed, protesters in the last two months, and that for Iran to have a nuclear bomb is absolutely unacceptable,&#8221; Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>The public jabs from the president have also angered some Catholics, the single largest\u00a0religious denomination\u00a0in the U.S., according to Pew Research Center.<\/p>\n<p>Contributing: Phillip M. Bailey, Zac Anderson, Bart Jansen, USA TODAY<\/p>\n<p>Kinsey Crowley is the Trump Connect reporter for the USA TODAY Network. Reach her at KCrowley@usatodayco.com. Follow her on<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KinseyCrowley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">X (Twitter)<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.com\/@kinseycrowley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Threads<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/kinseycrowley.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Bluesky<\/a>\u00a0and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@kinseycrowley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">TikTok<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kinsey Crowley \u00a0|\u00a0 USA TODAY President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0is not backing down from his battle with the Pope, resharing on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,601,25,4072,596,603,625,2151,4073,206,608,607,627,464,2582,4076,604,600],"class_list":{"0":"post-6264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ai","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-belief","12":"tag-branch","13":"tag-donald","14":"tag-donald-trump","15":"tag-executive","16":"tag-executive-branch","17":"tag-intelligence","18":"tag-negative","19":"tag-overall","20":"tag-overall-negative","21":"tag-politics","22":"tag-religion","23":"tag-religion-u0026-belief","24":"tag-trump","25":"tag-u0026"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}