Trump angered some ardent supporters with AI image appearing to depict him as Jesus

A social media backlash wasn't enough to persuade President Donald Trump to apologize or back down from his feud with Pope Leo XIV

A social media backlash wasn't enough to persuade President Donald Trump to apologize or back down from his feud with Pope Leo XIV.

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But he did remove the AI-generated image he posted of himself as a Christ-like figure, after some of his most ardent Christian supporters accused him of blasphemy.

“I don’t know if the President thought he was being funny or if he is under the influence of some substance or what possible explanation he could have for this OUTRAGEOUS blasphemy,” Megan Basham, a prominent conservative Protestant Christian writer and commentator, posted on X. “But he needs to take this down immediately and ask for forgiveness from the American people and then from God.”