'It's a sign!' New White House photo of Trump 'with devil horns' sparks online frenzy

A new photograph taken Thursday of President Donald Trump has ignited an online frenzy, with the placement of a golden bald eagle in the White House Cabinet Room having created the illusion that the president was sporting a pair of “devil horns.”

“Fitting!” wrote X user “Madd_Gigi,” a frequent critic of Trump who’s amassed more than 3,100 followers.

The photo was taken Thursday during a cabinet meeting attended by Trump and a number of high-ranking officials in his administration. Photojournalist Jim Watson, formally a photographer for the U.S. Navy, captured a shot of Trump with a golden statue of a bald eagle, its wings raised, directly behind Trump’s head, which Democratic strategist Keith Edwards shared on social media with the following caption: “New picture of Trump with devil horns just dropped.”

Edwards’ post spread wildly on social media, amassing nearly 900,000 views at the time of writing (since being posted Thursday afternoon), with users noting the symbolism of Trump depicted with what appear to be a set of golden horns.

“Biblical,” wrote Adam Cochran, a professor and policy consultant who’s amassed more than 258,000 followers on X. “Just not in the way MAGA expected.”

Others, like X user “Brisologyu,” who frequently posts cryptocurrency content and has amassed more than 6,700 followers, dubbed Trump as “Lucifer, bringer of light,” and another X user, “F--- You I Quit,” wrote to their more than 450,000 followers that photographs that depict Trump with horns “happen far too often to be coincidence.”

Some users noted the similarities of the photo with the debut episode of South Park’s season 27 premiere that depicted Trump “getting into bed with Satan.”

“It’s the lovechild foretold in South Park,” noted X user “Ken Akehurst,” who’s shared content critical of Trump’s mass deportation policy.

And others noted what they believed would be the outrage among conservatives should a similar photo have been taken of a Democratic president.

“If this was behind Biden ONCE MAGA would’ve been holding prayer circles daily outside the White House,” wrote X user “Ari,” a TikTok creator and marketing entrepreneur.