By Adam Gabbatt
Publication Date: 2026-04-15 18:30:00
In Donald Trump’s portrayal, the image showed him to be a medical professional, not to mention lacking training.
“It should be me as a doctor making people better,” Trump said, responding to outrage after posting an AI-generated photo that critics — including some on the right — depicted him as a Jesus Christ figure.
Trump added: “And I make people better. I make people much better.”
Naturally. Trump performed the famous medical practice of applying an ethereal light to a patient’s head while transparent figures looked down from the sky.
While this explanation made sense to the most indoctrinated members of the Maga cult, others disagreed. “Gross blasphemy,” said a former co-chair of a Republican youth group. “There is no context in which this would be acceptable,” Sean Feucht, a pro-Trump Christian activist, posted on X.
Whatever Trump thought he was doing – and the New York Times ran a long article this week noting…