'Showed great respect': Mike Johnson praises Trump over 'sacrilegious' Jesus post

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said President Donald Trump shared an image of himself as Jesus because he didn't view it as "sacrilegious."

On Tuesday, Johnson told CNN's Veronica Stracqualursi that he contacted the president after he posted the sacrilegious image.

"Was it blasphemy?" the reporter wondered.

"I talked with the president about it as soon as I saw it and told him that I don't think it was being received in the same way he intended it," Johnson replied. He agreed, and he pulled it down. That was the right thing to do."

"He explained how he saw that, and I don't think he thought it was sacrilegious at all," he said.

Johnson insisted that Trump "showed great respect to others by removing it."