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By Seyi Babalola
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday deleted a social media image portraying himself in a Christ-like manner following backlash from religious leaders who described the post as blasphemous.
The image, shared on his Truth Social platform, showed him dressed in flowing red-and-white robes, appearing to touch the forehead of a sick man, with light radiating from his hand and head.
An American flag waved in the background while various figures gazed up at the president in reverence.
The AI picture was posted late Sunday and removed on Monday.
Asked about the post, Trump denied that he was trying to look like Jesus Christ.
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“I did post it, and I thought it was me as a doctor and had to do Red Cross,” he told journalists.
“It’s supposed to be me as a doctor, making people better. And I do make people better. I make people a lot better.”
The post generated an outcry from several prominent conservative Christians who are among Trump’s biggest backers.
“I don’t 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 OUTRAGEOUS blasphemy,” Megan Basham, a conservative journalist and commentator, wrote on X.
“He needs to take this down immediately and ask for forgiveness from the American people and then from God.”
