On April 12, 2026 — hours after attacking Pope Leo XIV on Truth Social — Trump posted an AI-generated image depicting himself as Jesus Christ. The image shows Trump in white robes with a red sash, laying a glowing hand on a bedridden man, surrounded by a nurse, a soldier, and a praying woman. Eagles, fighter jets, the Statue of Liberty, and fireworks fill the background. The post was shared without caption.
Observers noted the bedridden man in the image bears a resemblance to a young Jeffrey Epstein — an observation that went viral given the ongoing Epstein files controversy.
The backlash came from Trump's own base. Marjorie Taylor Greene — who had already broken with Trump over the Iran war — posted: “It's more than blasphemy. It's an Antichrist spirit.” Christian conservatives who had been among Trump's most loyal supporters expressed outrage at the comparison of the president to Christ.
The image was posted in the same Truth Social session where Trump called Pope Leo XIV “WEAK on Crime and terrible for Foreign Policy” — creating a sequence where the president attacked the leader of the Catholic Church and then posted an image of himself as the Son of God.