{"id":393964,"date":"2026-04-15T19:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T19:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/393964\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T19:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T19:53:07","slug":"the-ai-images-trump-cant-get-enough-of-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/393964\/","title":{"rendered":"The AI images Trump can\u2019t get enough of | Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s telling, the image showed him as a medical professional, never mind the lack of training.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s supposed to be me as a doctor making people better,\u201d Trump said, responding to the outrage after he posted an AI-generated photo which critics \u2013 including some on the right \u2013 say showed him as a Jesus Christ-figure<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Trump added: \u201cAnd I do make people better. I make people a lot better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course. Trump was engaging in the famous medical practice of administering an ethereal light to a patient\u2019s head, as translucent figures look down from the heavens.<\/p>\n

While that explanation made perfect sense to the most severely indoctrinated members of the Maga cult, others took issue. \u201cGross blasphemy,\u201d said a former co-chair of a Republican youth group. \u201cThere\u2019s no context where this is acceptable,\u201d Sean Feucht, a Trump-aligned Christian activist, posted on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Whatever Trump thought he was doing \u2013 and the New York Times ran a lengthy piece<\/a> this week noting that he \u201cseems even less restrained and more incoherent\u201d and \u201cregularly makes comments rooted in fantasy rather than fact\u201d \u2013 it wasn\u2019t the first time he has dabbled in Christian art.<\/p>\n

An AI-generated image of Donald Trump as the pope. Illustration: @realDonaldTrump<\/p>\n

Indeed, last May, with the Catholic church still mourning the death of Pope Francis, Trump shared a picture on social media imagining himself as pope. The picture showed him in a white cassock, crucifix pendant and a mitre hat, with a Solomon-esque look of wisdom on his face. That didn\u2019t go down<\/a> well either.<\/p>\n

It fits a pattern. During Trump\u2019s campaign, and continuing into his second term, either he or the White House has repeatedly used AI imagery to visualize the president as:<\/p>\n

The AI-generated posts \u201crally his base and distract the public from other topics\u201d, Poynter wrote<\/a>. \u201cBut AI supercharges his messaging ability, providing hyperrealistic visuals of incidents that aren\u2019t real.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even as Trump backed down on proclaiming himself the son of God, he seems unlikely to keep out of Christian issues altogether. On Tuesday night he extended his attacks on the pope \u2013 another thing which has drawn the ire of at least some on the right \u2013 in late-night Truth Social posts.<\/p>\n

\u201cWill someone please tell Pope Leo that Iran has killed at least 42,000 innocent, completely unarmed, protesters in the last two months, and that for Iran to have a Nuclear Bomb is absolutely unacceptable,\u201d Trump wrote at 11.34pm. The president did not offer evidence for the 42,000 claim, and has previously cited a figure of 45,000 dead protesters, a number which has not been verified<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The grumbling continued into the small hours, Trump sharing a post<\/a> critical of Leo\u2019s social media use at 1.10am, and, later still, defending<\/a> himself again over the Trump-as-Christ controversy.<\/p>\n

As that conflict bubbles away, the AI continued. On Wednesday morning Trump reposted an image of what appeared to be Jesus Christ embracing him from behind, again risking the ire of Christians.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Radical Left Lunatics might not like this, but I think it is quite nice!!!\u201d Trump wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And therein lies another, simpler, explanation for the fascination with AI images: Trump just really likes the photos. He likes seeing himself as a superhero, or wearing a snazzy hat, or as someone who isn\u2019t about to turn 80.<\/p>\n

It means there are probably more images to come. Perhaps he\u2019ll imagine himself as God next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Donald Trump\u2019s telling, the image showed him as a medical professional, never mind the lack of training.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-393964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}