Trump posts AI image of being embraced by Jesus Christ amid criticism for other religious posts

President Trump shared a post on Truth Social Wednesday that featured an image of him being embraced by Jesus Christ amid the criticism he has received for another image that featured him as Jesus.

“The Radical Left Lunatics might not like this, but I think it is quite nice!!!” Trump wrote.

The image was originally posted by an X account with the caption, “I was never a very religious man…but doesn’t it seem, with all these satanic, demonic, child sacrificing monsters being exposed…that God might be playing his Trump card!”

The AI-created image shows Jesus embracing Trump, both with their eyes closed, with an American flag behind them.

It comes after Trump was heavily criticized by conservative Christians for posting an AI image that showed him as a Jesus-like figure helping a sick person.

Some of his allies were quick to call the post blasphemous and call for it to be removed.

Conservative political activist Riley Gaines wrote on X early Monday, “Why? Seriously, I cannot understand why he’d post this. Is he looking for a response? Does he actually think this?”

“Either way, two things are true,” she wrote. “1) a little humility would serve him well 2) God shall not be mocked.”

Conservative political commentator Michael Knowles weighed in saying, “I assume someone has already told him, but it behooves the President both spiritually and political to delete the picture, no matter the intent.”

Trump defended himself later over the post that he ultimately deleted, saying he thought it was depicting him as a doctor.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Tuesday that he was the one who called Trump and told him he should take it down.

“I talked to the president about it as soon as I saw it and told him that I don’t think it was being received in the same way he intended it,” Johnson told reporters. “He agreed and he pulled it down. That was the right thing to do.”

Wednesday’s post came around the same time as the Knights of Columbus separately weighed in on another Truth Social post by Trump earlier this week that heavily criticized Pope Leo XIV calling him “WEAK on Crime and terrible for foreign policy” for his stance against the Iran war.

Supreme Knight Patrick Kelly defended the pope, saying he has “consistently called for peace, dialogue, and restraint in a world marked by war and suffering.”

“The Holy Father’s words are not political talking points — they are reflections of the Gospel itself,” Kelly wrote. “Whether one agrees or disagrees with particular policy judgments, the Holy Father’s prophetic voice deserves to be heard with respect and engaged seriously.”

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