{"id":396725,"date":"2026-04-13T19:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/396725\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T19:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:38:08","slug":"i-thought-it-was-me-as-a-doctor-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/396725\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I thought it was me as a doctor\u2019 \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

US<\/a> president Donald Trump<\/a> has deleted a Truth Social<\/a> post featuring an AI<\/a>-generated image depicting him as a Jesus Christ<\/a>-like figure, with divine light emanating from his hands as he heals a stricken man in a hospital bed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did post it. I thought it was me as a doctor,\u201d Trump told reporters at the White House, denying claims he was meant to appear as Jesus. \u201cIt was supposed to be me as a doctor, making people better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump has faced the wrath of some of his most high-profile and loyal Christian supporters, many of whom have stood by the president through multiple other indiscretions and were unable to contain their righteous fury.<\/p>\n

Riley Gaines, Fox News host and conservative commentator, said she \u201ccannot understand why he\u2019d post this\u201d. \u201cIs he looking for a response? Does he actually think this? Either way, two things are true. 1) a little humility would serve him well 2) God shall not be mocked,\u201d she wrote on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Megan Basham, a writer at the conservative Daily Wire, called the post \u201cOUTRAGEOUS blasphemy\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know if the President thought he was being funny or if he is under the influence of some substance or what possible explanation he could have for this,\u201d she wrote. She demanded Trump \u201ctake this down immediately and ask for forgiveness from the American people and then from God\u201d.<\/p>\n

Isabel Brown, a host on the same outlet, said the image was \u201cdisgusting and unacceptable\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing matters more than Jesus,\u201d she wrote. \u201cThis post is, frankly, disgusting and unacceptable, but also a profound misreading of the American people experiencing a true and beautiful revival of faith in Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n

Steve Deace, a host at the right-wing BlazeTV, posted a single word: \u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/a>, the former Republican member of congress from Georgia, captured a screenshot of the Truth Social post before it was deleted, and said: \u201cI completely denounce this and I\u2019m praying against it!!!\u201d<\/p>\n

The AI-generated image Trump shared, portraying him as the son of God, was not the original. The picture first appeared in early February, posted to X by Nick Adams, a conservative commentator with a history of sharing AI-generated, biblically themed Trump content. In Adams\u2019s version, a silhouette of a US soldier stands in the background. In Trump\u2019s version, that soldier has been Photoshopped into a demonic figure with horns looming behind the president as he performs his miracle.<\/p>\n

But the outrage was not just among high-profile media figures. Users on Truth Social \u2013 Trump\u2019s social platform where devoted supporters almost never dissent \u2013 have also turned on the president over the image.<\/p>\n

Trump is engaged in a war of words with Pope Leo XIV<\/a>, the first US-born pope in Catholic history, after Leo suggested, without naming the president, that a \u201cdelusion of omnipotence\u201d was driving US foreign policy, particularly surrounding the war with Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[\u00a0Trump attacks Pope Leo as being \u2018weak on crime, terrible for foreign policy\u2019Opens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

Trump responded by calling the pontiff \u201cWEAK on Crime,\u201d and saying he was \u201cnot a fan of Pope Leo\u201d and suggesting the leader of the world\u2019s 1.4 billion Catholics was \u201ccatering to the radical left\u201d. The pope, who was also outspoken about the carnage and catastrophes in Gaza, told reporters on the papal flight to Algeria that he did not fear the Trump administration and would continue to speak out against war.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not afraid of the Trump administration or speaking out loudly of the message of the gospel, which is what I believe I am here to do, what the church is here to do,\u201d the pope said.<\/p>\n

US bishops have also rallied behind him, describing the pope not as a political opponent but as a \u201cvicar of Christ who speaks from the truth of the gospel\u201d.<\/p>\n

The condemnation of Trump\u2019s attacks on the pope spread further: Italian politicians across the spectrum, including Matteo Salvini \u2013 the hard-right deputy prime minister and a long-time Trump admirer \u2013 said attacking the pope was neither useful nor intelligent. The Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian, also condemned Trump\u2019s \u201cinsult\u201d, saying that depicting Jesus Christ as a vessel for political vanity was \u201cunacceptable to any free person\u201d and is a \u201cdesecration of Jesus\u201d.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s AI post not only comes after that spat, but one week after Easter Sunday for Catholics, and the morning after Easter Sunday for Orthodox Christians.<\/p>\n

The gospel of Mark records Jesus healing the sick, feeding the hungry and casting out demons. Trump\u2019s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed into law in 2025, will cut federal Medicaid spending by about $900 billion over a decade with children\u2019s hospitals warning the cuts will directly harm their most vulnerable patients.<\/p>\n

One user on X, Mandy Arthur, captured the mood: \u201cGod, we might have made a mistake and accidentally elected the Antichrist. Send help.\u201d \u2013 Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US president Donald Trump has deleted a Truth Social post featuring an AI-generated image depicting him as a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,969,61,60,14500,44095,6318,80,33938,115],"class_list":["post-396725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-donald-trump","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jesus-christ","tag-marjorie-taylor-greene","tag-pope-leo-xiv","tag-technology","tag-truth-social","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}