Late on Sunday night, Donald Trump posted what appeared to be an AI-generated photograph of himself, as Jesus Christ, appearing to heal a man. The next morning, following an outcry that included some of his reporters accusing him of blasphemy, the post was deleted. Then, on Monday afternoon, the president addressed the episode.
“It wasn’t a depiction, it was me,” Trump said. “I did post it and I thought it was me as the doctor. And had to do with the Red Cross as a Red Cross worker, which we support, and only the fake news could come up with that one… It’s supposed to be me as a doctor, and I do make people better.”
Reporter: Did you post that picture of yourself depicted as Jesus Christ?
Trump: It wasn’t a depiction. I did post it, and I thought it was me as a doctor. And had to do with red cross as a red cross worker, which we support and only the fake news could come up with that one. pic.twitter.com/7Y1u86GjkP
— Acyn (@Acyn) April 13, 2026
It’s hard to imagine Trump could have missed out on the obvious religious imagery of the image.
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And it didn’t appear, from social media, that many other people were buying his explanation either.
Among the many insane things that Trump has said over years, this is definitely at or near the top. https://t.co/fZdJD1uMbo
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 13, 2026
This is only believable in the US, where many people haven’t seen a doctor bc they don’t have healthcare https://t.co/6j9vmQ9qRq
— derek guy (@dieworkwear) April 13, 2026
The best-case interpretation of this is that the dementia is getting worse. https://t.co/eFCZEiBt5q
— Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) April 13, 2026
This is a crock of shit bro https://t.co/OgghE87d1m
— Stacy Cay (@stacycay) April 13, 2026
This arrived the same day as a New York Times report, with the headline “Trump’s Erratic Behavior and Extreme Comments Revive Mental Health Debate.”
“President Trump’s erratic behavior and extreme comments in recent days and weeks have turbocharged the crazy-like-a-fox-or-just-plain-crazy debate that has followed him on the national political stage for a decade,” the Times piece said. “A series of disjointed, hard-to-follow and sometimes-profane statements capped by his “a whole civilization will die tonight” threat to wipe Iran off the map last week and his head-spinning attack on the “WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy” pope on Sunday night have left many with the impression of a deranged autocrat mad with power.”
Photo courtesy of the Political Tribune media library.
