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Americans Don't Like Trump's Jesus Posts and Back Pope Leo, Poll Shows
The Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll found 87% of Americans reacted negatively to Trump's Jesus-like image, while Pope Leo XIV held a 25-point favorable margin.
- A new Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll shows 87% of Americans hold a negative reaction to an AI-generated image President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social depicting himself as Jesus Christ, with 69% expressing a strongly negative reaction.
- Shortly before posting the AI image, Trump criticized Pope Leo XIV on Truth Social as "Weak on Crime, Weak on Nuclear Weapons" amid tensions over the pope's stance on the Iran war.
- Pope Leo XIV maintains a 25-point net favorable margin among Americans overall, with 41% viewing him favorably, while 76% of Americans disapprove of Trump's separate post threatening that "a whole civilization will die tonight."
- Trump's approval rating dropped to 37%, down from 45% in February 2025, while 80% of those who voted for him expressed negative reactions to his Truth Social posts, the poll found.
- These findings emerge just days before Secretary of State Marco Rubio makes a high-stakes visit to the Vatican amid the president's ongoing friction with the Pope over the Iran war.
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Americans don't like Trump's Jesus posts and back Pope Leo, poll shows
A majority of Americans also responded negatively to a post threatening Iran, in which Trump said "a whole civilization will die tonight."
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Following Trump's attacks on the Pope: what the polls now reveal about support for one or the other - ZENIT
(ZENIT News / Rome, 05.08.2026).- A new national survey suggests that Pope Leo XIV’s appeals for peace amid escalating tensions with Iran have resonated strongly with the American public, while President Donald Trump’s increasingly confrontational rhetoric toward the pontiff has generated widespread disapproval across the United States. The poll, conducted jointly by The Washington Post, ABC News, and Ipsos between April 24 and April 28 among 2,…
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