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Just months after signing legislation that will pull nearly 12 million Americans off health insurance<\/a> <\/a>by gutting Medicaid, Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself to Truth Social on Sunday depicting him as a Jesus Christ-like figure, with divine light emanating from his hands as he heals a stricken man in a hospital bed with a demon from hell floating in the background.<\/p>\n Some of his most high-profile and loyal Christian supporters, many of whom have stood by the president through multiple other indiscretions, are unable to contain their righteous fury.<\/p>\n Riley Gaines, Fox News host and conservative commentator, said she \u201ccannot understand why he\u2019d post this\u201d. \u201cIs he looking for a response? Does he actually think this? Either way, two things are true. 1) a little humility would serve him well 2) God shall not be mocked,\u201d she wrote on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n Megan Basham, a writer at the conservative Daily Wire, called the post<\/a> \u201cOUTRAGEOUS blasphemy\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know if the President thought he was being funny or if he is under the influence of some substance or what possible explanation he could have for this,\u201d she wrote. She demanded Trump \u201ctake this down immediately and ask for forgiveness from the American people and then from God\u201d.<\/p>\n Isabel Brown, a host on the same outlet, said the image<\/a> was \u201cdisgusting and unacceptable\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cNothing matters more than Jesus,\u201d she wrote. \u201cThis post is, frankly, disgusting and unacceptable, but also a profound misreading of the American people experiencing a true and beautiful revival of faith in Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n Steve Deace, a host at the rightwing BlazeTV, posted<\/a> a single word: \u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n The AI-generated image Trump shared was not the original. The picture first appeared in early February, posted to X by Nick Adams<\/a>, a conservative commentator with a history<\/a> of sharing AI-generated, biblically themed Trump content. In Adams\u2019s version, a silhouette of a US soldier stands in the background. In Trump\u2019s version<\/a>, that soldier has been photoshopped into a demonic figure with horns looming behind the president as he performs his miracle.<\/p>\n But the outrage was not just among high-profile media figures. Users on Truth Social \u2013 Trump\u2019s social platform where devoted supporters almost never dissent \u2013 have also turned on the president over the image.<\/p>\n Trump is engaged in a war of words<\/a> with Pope Leo XIV, the first US-born pope in Catholic history, after Leo suggested, without naming the president, that a \u201cdelusion of omnipotence\u201d was driving US foreign policy, particularly surrounding the war with Iran.<\/p>\n Trump responded by calling the pontiff \u201cWEAK on Crime,\u201d and saying he was \u201cnot a fan of Pope Leo\u201d and suggesting the leader of the world\u2019s 1.4 billion Catholics was \u201ccatering to the radical left\u201d. Leo, who was also outspoken about the carnage and catastrophes in Gaza, told reporters on the papal flight to Algeria that he did not fear the Trump administration and would continue to speak out against war.<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s AI post not only comes after that spat, but one week after Easter Sunday for Catholics, and the morning after Easter Sunday for Orthodox Christians.<\/p>\n The Gospel of Mark records<\/a> Jesus healing the sick, feeding the hungry and casting out demons. Trump\u2019s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed into law in 2025, will cut federal Medicaid spending by about $900bn over a decade <\/a>with children\u2019s hospitals warning the cuts will directly harm their most vulnerable patients. More than $1tn of those cuts come from Medicaid, the joint federal program that provides healthcare to low-income and disabled Americans.<\/p>\n