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White House pick to run Venezuela oil deal under investigation in two countries US President Donald Trump posted an apparently AI-generated image of Jesus embracing him on Wednesday, two days after he deleted a post that prompted criticism that the Republican president had compared himself to Jesus.
The image, reposted to Trump’s social media account, shows the president with his eyes closed, touching temple-to-temple with a similarly posed Jesus. Trump is standing behind a microphone, and behind him is an American flag.
The original post had the caption: “I was never a very religious man … but doesn’t it seem, with all these satanic, demonic, child sacrificing monsters being exposed … that God might be playing his Trump card!”
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Trump’s repost added the caption: “The Radical Left Lunatics might not like this, but I think it is quite nice!!!”
Trump has been feuding with Pope Leo, the first US-born leader of the Catholic Church and an outspoken critic of the war that began with US-Israeli strikes on Iran.
Trump reiterated his criticism of the religious leader on Tuesday night.
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