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Social Media Unleashes Wild Theory About Trump’s Bizarre Answer On Depicting Jesus — And It’s Blowing Up

A new theory as to what the president meant by "doctored."

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Earlier this week, the day after posting and deleting an AI-generated photograph of himself as Jesus healing a sick man, President Donald Trump claimed that he shared the picture, believing that he was being depicted as a “doctor.”

A lot of people were scratching their heads because Trump looked nothing like a doctor in the picture, and it seems unlikely that he or anyone else would have missed the religious imagery.

Then, on Tuesday, podcaster Manny Fidel came up with a theory as to what happened after seeing what is presented as White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt claiming that the image was “doctored.”

“oh my god. was trump told to tell the press that the image was “doctored,” but misunderstood and told everyone that he was depicted as a “doctor”?”

This seems a very strong theory, similar to how Trump often refers to “asylums” in reference to immigrants, presumably out of a misunderstanding about the concept of “political asylum.”

That said, one aspect of Fidel’s post appears fudged: Leavitt does not appear to have claimed, in any public statements, that “President Trump’s Truth Social post depicting him as Jesus was a doctored image.”  That phrase appears nowhere on the Internet besides in references to Fidel’s post. It is, however, very possible that Trump was told by someone in the White House press office to say the image was “doctored,” and jumbled his words.

A lot of people on social media seemed to agree.

Photo courtesy of the Political Tribune media library. 

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Stephen Silver

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Stephen Silver is an award-winning journalist, essayist and film critic, and contributor to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Broad Street Review and Splice Today. The co-founder of the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle, Stephen lives in suburban Philadelphia with his wife and two sons. Stephen has authored thousands of articles that focus on politics, technology, and the economy.

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