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Apparently Trump is Jesus now?

By WTFs Next · · 8 min read
Apparently Trump is Jesus now?

As the furor over President Donald Trump’s latest ham-handed foray into the Faith of America is still ringing in the airwaves, I can’t help but ponder how decidedly irreligious this man is. Despite what even his most ardent Evangelical followers might believe, Trump is far from Christian in word, action or deeds.

When you start with that as a baseline belief, then his most recent behavior doesn’t shock you. The only shocking thing is that people who actually claim they believe still put their faith in him, and are willing to argue that he, somehow, is an “instrument of God”.

Sunday night (4/13/26), Trump posted an AI illustration of himself depicted as Jesus Christ, laying hands on an infirm white man, while a healing glow emanates from his hands. In a halo around him is a myriad of (white) Conservative symbolism: On one side young white woman praying, and an older white man who seems to represent farmers, blue collar workers, and retired veterans all in one. On the other side he is flanked by a pretty white nurse, who looks on adoringly, and a white service member…his AI rendered uniform is equal parts Marines and Army…who looks up stoically at the Commander in Chief.

In the background is a flowing American flag, a majestic bald eagle in flight, some non-descript fighter plane blobs that could represent any of a number of actual planes, the Statue of Liberty, the Lincoln Memorial, and burst of fireworks! Of course!

Over a thick head of hair that the Don himself hasn’t seen since at least 1987, a group of marching soldiers (are these meant to be spirits? So are they dead soldiers? I am so confused.) appear in a cloud burst of Heavenly sunlight …one of the soldiers looks like a Decepticon mid-transformation, thanks AI!

A pretty blasphemous end to a pretty blasphemous week after Easter, the holiest day of the Christian religion.


Trump started Easter week with a post on his Truth social account threatening Iran and blaspheming Islam. After the traditional Easter egg roll, quick message to Americans that emphasized how Christians are being persecuted in America (which doesn’t happen), how he wanted to create a “Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias” (which doesn’t exist), he then went to play some Holy Easter Golf at a Holy Golf Course he owns.

You know…just like the average faith-filled Christian would do on this holiest of days.

Then, later in the week news broke that the Vatican had called off a planned visit by the Pope, during America’s 250th National Birthday Celebrations, due to officials at the Pentagon having issued thinly veiled threats to a Vatican ambassador during a meeting back in January.

Meanwhile, America’s own Pope Leo XIV has urged world leaders to lay down their weapons, strive for peace and drop the “desire to dominate others” in his Easter address to commemorate Easter week.

Of course, Trump took that shit personally. And hours before posting the image of himself as the Messiah, he denounced the Pope, denounced his stance on the war and criticized his urgings for peace. You know…like the Messiah would.

“I’m not a fan of Pope Leo.” Trump told reporters.

Then he posted the AI TrumpJesus.

And NOW suddenly folks take issue with his behavior?

Trump in his usual way, blames the furor on “fake news”, and after deleting the post, claimed he thought the image depicted him as a doctor helping people. You know, because doctors shoot healing light out of their hands.

“I thought it was me as a doctor and had to do with Red Cross. It’s supposed to be me as a doctor making people better. And I do make people better.” Trump told reporters today outside the West Wing (you know…the wing that he hasn’t knocked down).

For someone like myself, raised a Christian in a Southern Baptist church, who has actually read his Bible multiple times, enjoys reading biblical history, and has no issues discussing both his faith and his issues with the practitioners of his faith, how White Christian Evangelicals continually whitewash Trump’s image to make him a “Christian” is mind-boggling. But it definitely illustrates why he thought he could get away with portraying himself as “Christ-like”.

I mean, the base tenet of the Christian faith is that all humans are sinners, and all should ask forgiveness from God for their sins and then tread a more Christlike path. In 2015 Trump told Jake Tapper that he he’s never asked God for forgiveness. As far as he is concerned, he doesn’t do much wrong, so why bring God into it? (his words, not mine)

“I am not sure I have. I just go on and try to do a better job from there. I don’t think so,” he said. “I think if I do something wrong, I think, I just try and make it right. I don’t bring God into that picture. I don’t.”

In most Christian churches, believers will have “sin off” of sorts, detailing all the depths of depravity they got up to before finding Jesus and getting their life right.
Donald Trump, who has gotten up to a hell of lot more depravity than most, doesn’t think we need “to bring God into the picture”.

Donald Trump is actually quite an anomaly compared to other modern Presidents, in that he seems to have no deep religious conviction of any kind.

State Magazine said back in 2017:

“A months-long examination of the congregations he had ties to throughout his life found no evidence that Trump put down permanent roots in any of them. Congregants at his childhood church in Queens say Trump might not be welcome there today. The midtown Manhattan church he attended later in life has denied that he is a member there, and the son of its famous pastor, Norman Vincent Peale, has denounced Trump.”

Trump was raised Presbyterian, and his parents attended First Presbyterian Church in Queens, NY, but by all accounts they went to this church because of his mother’s faith background (his father was Lutheran). By the time the 70’s rolled around, Trump and his parents had transferred their attention to Norman Vincent Peale’s Marble Collegiate Church, but this was most like due to Donald’s admiration of Peele’s book “The Power of Positive Thinking” (of which Don was a fan) and his church’s movement into the Christian dogmatic view that would be rebranded “Prosperity Gospel” in later years.

So, it seems quite clear that Trump didn’t so much admire Jesus the Christ, as he admired the “new” idea taking hold that that financial blessings and physical well-being are promised by God. This also explains why he later became a big fan of rich televangelists like Jimmy Swaggart, Billy Graham, and David Jeremiah.

It was never about God or Christ or even the tenets of Christianity.

It’s always been about the things we already know Trump to be a worshipper of: Money. Power. Popularity.

The man can’t even name a favorite verse from the Bible!

That may not seem like big deal, but even a casual Sunday school attending 7 year old can pull John 3:16 out when put on the spot. Trump couldn’t even do that.

Years later, when asked about it, he tried to say his favorite verse is “an eye for an eye”.

…which isn’t even a verse.

“Well, I think many. I mean, you know, when we get into the Bible, I think many. So many [verses]. And some people—look, an eye for an eye, you can almost say that. That’s not a particularly nice thing.”

(and just in case you’re testing, my own personal favorite verse is 1 Thessalonians 5:21, “Test all things; hold fast what is good.” But hey, you could probably guess that about me.)

After 8 years of being told that President Obama was secretly a Muslim (who wasn’t even BORN here), Evangelical voters were happy for anyone they could CALL Christian, who would also be both against abortions AND buy into their idea that their faith was under threat AND put those feminists in their place AND stop the “gay agenda”. So what if we have to lie about his faith? Right? Right?

Add to this that he is also a racist and he hates the same people they hate?

Trump’s cult of personality had them hook, line and sinker.

And even after his blasphemy of posting himself as The Lord and Savior, these same people are looking for any reason to forgive him. Any reason to believe in him.

He may be an asshole pretending to be Christian…but at least he’s THEIR asshole pretending to be Christian.

(More to come in the future…)

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