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'It was me as a doctor': Trump rushes to deny messiah complex after Christian outrage

President Donald Trump admitted Monday to posting an image on social media that appeared to depict him as a Jesus Christ-like figure, but disputed its widely perceived meaning when pressed on the matter by a reporter.

“I did post it, and I thought it was me as a doctor,” Trump told a reporter at the White House Monday when pressed about the image, described by the reporter as depicting the president “as Jesus Christ.”

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'No más': GOP lawmakers signal they're ready to turn on Trump over Iran disaster

Democratic efforts to constrain Donald Trump's Iran war are gaining unexpected momentum. More Republican lawmakers are privately signaling they're ready to join Democrats on a war powers resolution — and the defections may accelerate dramatically by month's end.

According to MS NOW, Democrats believe "there's a pathway to success" on forcing votes this week that would dampen hostilities in Iran.

The political math is shifting in Democrats' favor. While they would need a two-thirds majority in both chambers to override Trump's almost-certain veto, a privileged war powers measure only requires a simple majority to pass — a threshold that appears increasingly achievable as GOP support erodes, MS NOW reported.

The breaking point could happen on April 29. One House GOP lawmaker, granted anonymity, told MS NOW that "a lot of Republicans" would be ready to support a war powers resolution by then.

"This issue is already coming ripe at the end of this month, and if they don't come to us by then, they're in violation of the law. And that's when you'll see many of us saying no más," they told MS NOW.

Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) framed the political stakes sharply: "Every day that Republicans stand in the way of Democratic efforts to end this war is another day that they own the chaos, the bloodshed and the economic volatility that has resulted."

Senate Republicans are already showing cracks. So far, only Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has voted with Democrats on three separate Iran war powers resolutions over the past month. But Trump's apocalyptic rhetoric is pushing other Republicans toward the exit, MS NOW reported.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) directly rebuked Trump's threat to wipe out a "whole civilization." "It cannot be excused away as an attempt to gain leverage in negotiations with Iran. It undermines our long-standing role as a global beacon of freedom and directly endangers Americans both abroad and at home," Murkowski wrote.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) was equally damning about Trump's Easter Truth Social posts threatening to annihilate Iran's infrastructure and demanding Tehran open the Strait of Hormuz in a social media post loaded with obscenities.

"Completely inappropriate," Collins said of the threats. "And the subsequent post in which he threatened to essentially annihilate the whole country of Iran is also not conducive to the negotiations that will shortly be underway."

Trump caught gawking at woman while golfing with teen grandson: 'She's in great shape'

President Donald Trump was apparently fixated on a woman he saw while golfing with his teenage grandson this weekend and made repeated comments about her body, The Daily Beast reported on Monday.

Trump was riding in his golf cart with Donald Trump III, Donald Trump Jr.’s 17-year-old son, when he saw the woman, golf content creator Nina Coates, who was apparently excited and jumping up and down as the president passed by her.

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'Thou shalt always TACO': Trump ridiculed as he succumbs to 'blasphemy' rage

After facing a wave of backlash from critics and supporters alike, President Donald Trump appeared to have deleted a social media post that featured an image depicting him as a Jesus Christ-like figure — prompting ridicule from onlookers.

“Thou shalt always TACO… Trump 3:16,” quipped Tommy Christopher, writer and editor for Mediaite and former White House reporter, in a social media post on X to his more than 25,000 followers.

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'God will not be mocked': Extreme Christian group bombards as Trump caves on Jesus meme

President Donald Trump finally deleted a social media post showing himself as a Christlike figure after he was called out by a supportive organization founded on the ideals of the Crusaders.

The 79-year-old president drew rare criticism from from the religious right by posting what appeared to be AI-generated image depicting him in a white robe, holding a glowing orb in one hand and laying his other hand on the forehead of a man lying in a hospital bed.

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'What a strange religion': Pete Hegseth's version of 'gospel' hammered in NY Times

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has revealed an alarming attribute as he carries out President Donald Trump's war against Iran, noted New York Times columnist Frank Bruni.

The 45-year-old Pentagon chief has made clear at his weekly press briefings that he considers every bomb and missile the United States launches at Iran is sent in Jesus' name — and Bruni recoiled at Hegseth's enthusiasm for Trump's threats to annihilate Iran's entire civilization.

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CNN data guru blames Trump's unpopularity for 'humongous' mistake: 'He's jealous'

CNN's Harry Enten speculated why President Donald Trump has been attacking the first U.S.-born pope.

The 79-year-old president has been lobbing personal attacks at Pope Leo XIV over his criticism of the war against Iran and other global conflicts, and the data analyst presented public approval polling that showed Americans have a clear favorite between the two public figures.

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'You're all cowards': MAGA lawmaker drowned by jeers and boos as town hall turns ugly

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) faced off with an angry crowd as he was booed during a fiery town hall this weekend in New York, according to reports.

Lawler was meeting with constituents at Mahopac High School on Sunday when he was met with a hostile audience, lohud.com reported.

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'He’s not sleeping': Concern raised 79-year-old Trump is suffering 'mental health episode'

On Monday morning, a critic of Donald Trump noted the time and topics of a series of the president’s Truth Social posts that indicate he was up all night — which should be a cause for concern considering his advanced age of almost 80.

While reporters were focused on the president launching a long screed attacking Pope Leo, bizarrely urging the pontiff to get better at his job, and then posting a meme portraying himself as Jesus, X-user Harry Sisson pointed out that those posts were just a small sampling of the president’s all-night Truth Social frenzy.

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‘They will be immediately eliminated’: Trump issues fierce warning to Iranian Navy

President Donald Trump issued a fierce threat to the Iranian Navy on Monday, warning that should they “come anywhere close” to the newly established U.S. Navy blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, that they would be “immediately eliminated.”

“Iran’s Navy is laying at the bottom of the sea, completely obliterated – 158 ships. What we have not hit are their small number of, what they call, ‘fast attack ships,’ because we did not consider them much of a threat,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

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'You're not God': Even MAGA TV lays into Trump after Jesus meme

MAGA TV anchors David Brody, Terrance Bates and Allison Haunss criticized President Donald Trump after he compared himself to Jesus Christ on social media.

In an image posted to Truth Social late Sunday, Trump seemed to liken himself to the Christian savior. The image created outcry — much of it from the president's supporters.

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Demonic edit to Trump's 'blasphemous' Jesus meme bewilders onlookers: 'What is that?'

President Donald Trump faced intense MAGA backlash Monday after sharing an image depicting himself as a Jesus Christ-like figure — but internet sleuths have since spotted an odd alteration to the original image that left some onlookers disturbed.

The image in question was first published in early February by Nick Adams, a devoted and loyal Trump supporter who the president appointed as his special envoy for American tourism in March.

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Trump lawsuit over lewd Epstein birthday card doodle tossed by judge

A federal judge dismissed President Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal over its reporting on his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

Miami-based U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles ruled the president had not made a valid legal claim that he was defamed in an article about a drawing he allegedly made in a letter to the late sex offender as part of a birthday book compiled in 2003, the newspaper reported.

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