The president posted an image on Orthodox Easter depicting himself as Jesus Christ, or someone very much like Christ.
Trump in the image is decked out in white robes with a red sash as light emerges from his hands. One of those hands is on a man sick in bed, who in turn glows with an apparent healing light as a woman gazes at the scene with her hands locked in prayer.
There are also silhouettes of military figures in the sky above as well as eagles, fighter jets, fireworks, a giant flag, and more in the image. The post has some of the hallmarks of AI including distorted fingers, the incorrect number of stars on the U.S. flag and gibberish text on a man’s hat:
But showing himself as Christ or a Christ-like figure crossed a line for many.
“It’s more than blasphemy,” former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), a one-time Trump supporter who has since turned critic, wrote on X. “It’s an Antichrist spirit.”
Others across the political spectrum also slammed the president for posting the image:
