Trump doubles down on Jesus imagery with new post amid outrage from Christians

In the face of intense criticism for posting an AI-generated image of himself as Jesus Christ, President Donald Trump doubled down and posted yet another religious-themed image of himself to his Truth Social platform on Wednesday morning.

Trump's post consisted of a screenshot of an image of Jesus embracing Trump, posted by an account on X which accompanied it with, "I was never a very religious man ... but doesn't it seem, with all these satanic, demonic, child sacrificing monsters being exposed ... that God might be playing his Trump card!"

The post appeared to be referencing longstanding conspiracy theories from the QAnon movement, which holds Trump is fighting a secret group of child traffickers who control the world.

"The Radical Left Lunatics might not like this, but I think it is quite nice!!!" Trump wrote of the post.

Trump's previous post with the image of himself as Jesus triggered heavy backlash even from politicians and clergy figures who generally support him, drawing accusations of sacrilege and blasphemy — which intensified as Trump simultaneously began lobbing personal attacks at Pope Leo XIV for condemning the bloodshed of the Iran war.

The president ultimately deleted that picture, but claimed he didn't even know it was religious in nature and thought it was depicting him as a Red Cross doctor, which was ruthlessly mocked by some of his erstwhile supporters like mega-podcaster Joe Rogan.