US President Donald Trump had published on the Truth Social platform over the weekend an image made with artificial intelligence, which showed him in a Jesus Christ-like posture, with divine light emanating from his hands, while healing a wounded man. The post has since been deleted, according to The Guardian.
Donald Trump said Monday that the image depicted him as a doctor and that only those who spread “fake news” could claim the post suggested he was comparing himself to Jesus Christ.
“I thought I was appearing as a doctor and it had something to do with the Red Cross,” said the US president, quoted by CNN.
By the time he deleted the post, Trump had been criticized by some of his most prominent Christian supporters.
“I can't understand why they would post that,” was the reaction of conservative Fox News anchor Riley Gaines. “Is he looking for an answer? Does he really believe this? Either way, two things are true: 1) A little humility wouldn't hurt; 2) God will not be mocked,” she wrote on the X platform.
President Trump has deleted his post portraying himself as Jesus pic.twitter.com/UAa8uYCkXf
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) April 13, 2026
Other vehement reactions
Megan Basham of the conservative Daily Wire condemned the post as “outrageous blasphemy”.
“I don't know if the president thought it was funny or if he was under the influence of some substance, or what possible explanation he could have for this,” she wrote.
Basham asked the president to “immediately take down” the post and “ask for forgiveness from the American people and then from God.”
Isabel Brown, from the same publication, said the image Trump posted was “disgusting and unacceptable”.
“Nothing matters more than Jesus,” she wrote. “This post is frankly disgusting and unacceptable, but also a profound misrepresentation of how the American people are experiencing a true and beautiful revival of faith in Christ,” Brown added.
Steve Deace, a producer at right-wing station BlazeTV, had a one-word reaction to the president's post: “No.”
The Guardian notes that the image shared by Trump on Truth Social is not the original version. A similar photo appeared on X in February, posted by Nick Adams, a conservative commentator known for sharing Bible-themed AI-generated content about Trump.
