President Trump had a ready answer on Tuesday when reporters asked who he would like to see that he would be the next Supreme Pontiff. “I would like to be pope,” he joke To reporters in the White House. “That would be my number one choice.”
He went the joke one step further on Saturday and shared what a photo generated by AI seemed to be of himself who bore the traditional robes of the pope social media. The photo shows him in a white cassock with a cross around his neck, his face solemnly while he lifts a pointed finger.
The origin of the photo was not immediately clear and Mr. Trump did not comment in his message. He shared the image on Truth Social, Instagram and X, and the White House has posted it again on his official Instagram And X Accounts.
The idea of ’Pope Trump’, as some people called it, was immediately polarizing. Some religious people, including Catholics, did not see the humor in it and mentioned the photo -offensive, at a time when millions of people were still mourning Pope Francis, who died On Easter Monday. Various commentators on Truth Social, which is run by a company that is checked by Mr. Trump, called the post -saint and said that it has fueled wrong information.
Michael Steele, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, said posting the photo During a period of mourning, the proof was that Mr Trump was ‘unmerus and unable’.
But some conservative Republicans played this week with the joke of the president. Among them was Senator Lindsey Graham from South Carolina. “I was excited to hear that President Trump is open to the idea of being the next pope,” he said on Tuesday in one Post on X. “The first combination of Pope-US President has many advantages,” he added. “Looking at white smoke … Trump mmxxviii!”
The Vatican, which is deeply in preparation for the election of the successor to Pope Francis, could not be reached immediately for comment on the image.
It is not the first time that Mr Trump has shared polemic content that seemed to be generated with artificial intelligence. In February, he posted A video that the Gaza Strip weathered like a lush resort with its name. A representative for the Hamas -run government in Gaza called the video ‘shameful’.
After his joke to reporters on Tuesday, Mr. Trump, who has considerable extensively The influence of conservative Christians in the White House said he had no strong preference for Pope. But then he pointed to the Archbishop of New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, as one of his favorite candidates. Cardinal Dolan is not until the frontlopers who have emerged as the next pope, who will be chosen With a conclave that starts on Wednesday.
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