President Donald Trump shared a picture Friday depicting him because the pope.
The picture, which gave the impression to be generated by synthetic intelligence, arrived mere days after Trump jokingly instructed reporters he would “like to be pope” himself, following the demise of Pope Francis final month.
The picture appears impressed by conventional papal portraits: It reveals Trump in full papal regalia, replete with an embroidered pope’s hat and his index finger lifted on the sky — a gesture that seems to imitate the hand of benediction regularly utilized in spiritual blessings.
The 78-year-old MAGA chief posted the picture on his Reality Social platform round 10:30 p.m. ET. It was later reshared by the official White Home account on a number of different platforms, together with Instagram, Fb and X, previously Twitter, to 1000’s of baffled reactions.
“Where do you even begin with this?” wrote one consumer on X, with one other individual commenting extra straight: “A ‘Pope trump’ would be the first Pope in history unable to recite a single Bible verse, or even recount his favorite part, except for Two Corinthians.”
Trump was famously stumped by a simple query in regards to the Bible throughout his first presidential marketing campaign in 2015, regardless of regularly presenting himself as religious. He appeared to overlook to position his hand on the Bible as he was being sworn in earlier this yr.
The convicted felon, whose marital infidelity was on full show throughout a historic hush cash trial final yr, launched mass deportations shortly after assuming workplace. Pope Francis rebuked the coverage as a “major crisis” mere weeks earlier than dying on Easter Monday.
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Requested final week who he thought ought to succeed Pope Francis, Trump instructed reporters: “I’d like to be pope.” Whereas he went on to present a extra critical reply afterward, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) later stated in a put up on X the papal conclave ought to “keep an open mind” in regards to the thought.
“Every day is more absurd than the last,” one individual tiredly concluded.
“Donald Trump just posted a photo of himself as the Pope. It’s full-on lunacy at this point,” wrote the Republicans Towards Trump group, with one other consumer writing: “I honestly thought this was fake! Unreal! He actually did this! Nothing surprises me anymore.”
Others are extra irate than bewildered, and are taking the put up as an affront to their religion.
