Washington: Donald Trump deleted a social media post that depicted himself as Jesus Christ healing the sick – following a backlash from believers – and claimed that the image portrayed him as a doctor, not a messianic figure.
Trump posted the AI drawing to Truth Social on Sunday night (US time), minutes after he excoriated Pope Leo for opposing the Iran war and accused the first American pope of “catering to the Radical Left”.
Trump claims post of himself as Jesus showed him as ‘doctor’
The US president maintained it was the media’s fault for construing the image as blasphemous.
On Monday, the president acknowledged he posted the image himself. “I did post it, and I thought it was me as the doctor, and having to do with the Red Cross,” he told reporters. “There’s a Red Cross worker there, which we support.”
There was nothing clearly depicting the Red Cross or a Red Cross worker in the image, though there was a nurse. Trump maintained it was the media’s fault for construing the image as blasphemous.
“Only the fake news could come up with that one,” he said. “I just heard about it and I said, ‘How do they come up with that?’ It’s supposed to be me as a doctor, making people better. And I do make people better.”
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