{"id":1676,"date":"2026-04-16T00:22:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/how-trumps-jesus-like-image-and-feud-with-the-pope-are-sparking-backlash\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T00:22:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:52:03","slug":"how-trumps-jesus-like-image-and-feud-with-the-pope-are-sparking-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/?p=1676&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"How Trump\u2019s Jesus-like image and feud with the Pope are sparking backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump is facing growing backlash after posting an AI-generated image on Truth Social depicting himself as a Jesus-like figure. The image, which has now been deleted, showed Trump appearing to heal a sick man in a hospital bed. This image post came hours after the president posted a lengthy message criticising Pope Leo XIV. The president has since stated he thought the image was depicting him as a doctor. BBC\u2019s Sarah Smith explains the president&#8217;s row with the pope and how some of his most ardent supporters are reacting.<br \/>\n#Trump #TruthSocial #PoliticalBacklash #AIImage #PopeLeoXIV #ReligiousControversy #DonaldTrump #USPolitics #SocialMediaControversy #PresidentialNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump is facing growing backlash after posting an AI-generated image on Truth Social depicting himself as a Jesus-like figure. The image, which has now been deleted, showed Trump appearing to heal a sick man in a hospital bed. This image post came hours after the president posted a lengthy message criticising Pope Leo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}