Idiocy has no natural limits; when amplified by technology, it risks becoming a spectacle. The recent episode involving Donald Trump demonstrates how artificial intelligence can turn personal delusion into global theatre. In an AI-generated image, the president portrayed himself as Jesus healing a patient—an act that might have been dismissed as parody had it not been defended with startling earnestness. Trump claimed he believed the image depicted him as a doctor curing the sick, as though the distinction between a messiah and a medic were merely semantic. The episode might have remained a curious footnote but for its context. Trump’s depiction came amid escalating tensions with Pope Leo XIV, the first American-born pontiff whose recent........

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