\n Donald Trump launched an extraordinary attack on Pope Leo late Sunday, also going as far as to share an AI-generated image depicting himself as Jesus Christ healing the sick. He later deleted the image Monday following backlash from his usually loyal Christian and Catholic supporters, saying he \u201cthought it was me as a doctor.\u201d <\/p>\n
In a late-night rant on TruthSocial at 3am, the US President lashed out at Pope Leo as \u201cweak\u201d and that he \u201cwouldn\u2019t be in the Vatican if I wasn\u2019t in the White House.\u201d Some 40 minutes later, he shared an AI photo of himself as a Christ-like figure, bathed in light and healing an ill man with his hands.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This comes after the pontiff has repeatedly condemned the war in Iran and killing of civilians, even suggesting that\u00a0a \u201cdelusion of omnipotence\u201d was driving US foreign policy” without mentioning Trump by name.<\/p>\n
When asked by reporters, the pontiff said he \u201cwasn\u2019t afraid of the Trump administration,\u201d that he\u2019d continue to speak the words of the gospel, and called the name of Trump\u2019s platform, Truth Social, is \u201cironic.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
It’s rare for the US President to delete even his more provocative social media posts, but the\u00a0AI Jesus image sparked swift backlash from the Christian right. This included\u00a0usually-devoted high-profile MAGA supporters like Fox News host Riley Gaines and Christian commentator Megan Basham, who blasted the image as blasphemous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump launched an extraordinary attack on Pope Leo late Sunday, also going as far as to share…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3004,235,524,4115,2786,195,5,4113,3838,1265,1148,3001,236,1236],"class_list":{"0":"post-5831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-fake-news","9":"tag-americas","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-catholic-church","12":"tag-christians","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-france","15":"tag-pope","16":"tag-pope-leo-xiv","17":"tag-religion","18":"tag-social-media","19":"tag-truth-or-fake","20":"tag-usa","21":"tag-white-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}