'Deranged': Critics Pounce After Trump Posts 'Blasphemous' New Image Of Himself

The president posted an AI image of himself as a Christ-like figure healing a man.

President Donald Trump on Sunday night took a break from his new feud with Pope Leo XIV to apparently offer Christians an alternative: himself.

The president posted an image on Orthodox Easter depicting himself as Jesus Christ, or someone very much like Christ.

Trump in the image is decked out in white robes with a red sash as light emerges from his hands. One of those hands is on a man sick in bed, who in turn glows with an apparent healing light as a woman gazes at the scene with her hands locked in prayer.

There are also silhouettes of military figures in the sky above as well as eagles, fighter jets, fireworks, a giant flag, and more in the image. The post has some of the hallmarks of AI including distorted fingers, the incorrect number of stars on the U.S. flag and gibberish text on a man’s hat:

Trump and his team have a long history of posting over-the-top images of the president, with past pictures depicting him as Superman, on Mount Rushmore, and as the pope.

But showing himself as Christ or a Christ-like figure crossed a line for many.

“It’s more than blasphemy,” former Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a one-time Trump supporter who has since turned critic, wrote on X. “It’s an Antichrist spirit.”

Others across the political spectrum also slammed the president for posting the image:

This is blasphemous Trump portraying himself as Jesus Christ, descending from the clouds, healing the sick, with people praying to him, is reprehensible. If only there was a qualified leader of the White House Faith Office, and not a heretic, so this wouldn’t happen or at… pic.twitter.com/cGAJZn3E1o— Jon Root (@JonnyRoot_) April 13, 2026

This is blasphemous Trump portraying himself as Jesus Christ, descending from the clouds, healing the sick, with people praying to him, is reprehensible. If only there was a qualified leader of the White House Faith Office, and not a heretic, so this wouldn’t happen or at… pic.twitter.com/cGAJZn3E1o

There is behavior that's so self-evidently deranged that merely seeing it should lead to fury and disgust. I'm concerned, however, that some........

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