US EditionTrump Testing the True Believers with His Antics Amid Flagging Polls
Catholic leaders called the posts disrespectful as Trump deleted an image of himself as Jesus Christ, widening tensions with religious conservatives.
- President Donald Trump sparked backlash after attacking Pope Leo XIV and posting an AI-generated image of himself as Jesus Christ on Truth Social, which he deleted by midday Monday.
- The feud follows Pope Leo XIV's recent prayer service on Saturday, where the pontiff denounced the "delusion of omnipotence" fueling the war with Iran.
- Minnesota-Based Bishop Robert Barron and Archbishop Paul Coakley, head of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, condemned the remarks, with Barron calling them "entirely inappropriate and disrespectful."
- Vice President JD Vance defended the post as "a joke" on Fox News Channel Monday night, while Trump remains defiant, stating "there's nothing to apologise for."
- This conflict creates political friction six months before midterms, as Trump grapples with low approval ratings and growing dissension among white evangelical Christians, a core base .
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His frontal attack on Pope Leo XIV was already unpublished, Sunday, April 12. Donald Trump strongly criticized the sovereign pontiff, judging him "weak" on Iranian issues and... L'article United States: Donald Trump removes an image the representative in Christ after indignation of the religious right appeared first on Current Values.
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Trump testing the true believers with his antics amid flagging polls
The US president’s verbal assault on Pope Leo XIV, followed by the release of a now-deleted post portraying himself as a Christ-like saviour, has riled the American religious right.
The Pope stated that "the Church has a moral obligation to oppose war."
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