Catholic leaders criticize Trump for posting apparent AI photo of himself as the pope

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/04/nx-s1-5386516/catholic-leaders-criticize-trump-ai-pope-photo

 

"Some Catholic leaders and at least one U.S. Catholic group are criticizing President Trump after he posted on social media what appears to be an artificial intelligence-generated image of himself dressed as the pope.

Trump posted the image on his Truth Social account on Friday night, and shortly after it was reposted by the White House on its official X account.

Trump traveled to the Vatican late last month to attend the funeral of Pope Francis, who had died several days earlier at age 88."

 

 

Who cares what the Catholic church?

Just Don making friends again 

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4 minutes ago, Mike_Hunt said:

Who cares what the Catholic church?

About 1.4 billions Catholics, 62 millions of which are Americans?

Just now, BLMFem said:

About 1.4 billions Catholics, 62 millions of which are Americans?

It's a church, nothing more nothing less.   

Some people can't take a joke.

2 minutes ago, Mike_Hunt said:

It's a church, nothing more nothing less.   

I'm a raging atheist myself so from a faith perspective it means nothing to me. But even so there's no doubt it hugely influential.

Trump is a slug. But even for a slug this is tin eared. Weren't there at least nine or ten people around him who had the brains to warn him off against this sort of stupidity? 

5 minutes ago, Mike_Hunt said:

It's a church, nothing more nothing less.   

Don is a president, with great manner and 

 

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6 minutes ago, jas007 said:

Some people can't take a joke.

How very Presidential! And people are laughing at him, not with him. 

8 minutes ago, jas007 said:

Some people can't take a joke.

Waiting for his next one, the Prophet Trump wearing a beard, accompanied by a 7 year old girl and a goat; a DIY Mohammed kit - not that this would upset anyone in this free speech world

5 minutes ago, gomangosteen said:

Waiting for his next one, the Prophet Trump wearing a beard, accompanied by a 7 year old girl and a goat; a DIY Mohammed kit - not that this would upset anyone in this free speech world

You just don't understand Trump.  He's not being serious about the Pope thing.  What he is doing is making fun of all the people who actually think otherwise . 

20 minutes ago, jas007 said:

Some people can't take a joke.

Yup he’s quite the troll and his #2 guy can kill just with his awful personality……the Europeans don’t call the troll in chief a vulgarian for nothing he’s earned every bit of the revulsion.

15 minutes ago, John Drake said:

Trump is a slug. But even for a slug this is tin eared. Weren't there at least nine or ten people around him who had the brains to warn him off against this sort of stupidity? 

As he's quite deliberately surrounded himself with people who's only purpose in life is kissing his butt there just isn't anyone around.

And that's scary as hell because that means the are no grown-ups in the WH.

7 minutes ago, jas007 said:

You just don't understand Trump.  He's not being serious about the Pope thing.  What he is doing is making fun of all the people who actually think otherwise . 

Yes, this is exactly the sort of thing a president should be doing! Beside golfing, of course.

25 minutes ago, jas007 said:

Some people can't take a joke.

True but lefties are bitter and twisted. Very sour people.

4 minutes ago, Tug said:

Yup he’s quite the troll and his #2 guy can kill just with his awful personality……the Europeans don’t call the troll in chief a vulgarian for nothing he’s earned every bit of the revulsion.

 

We all know Europe is irrelevant. 

38 minutes ago, BLMFem said:

As he's quite deliberately surrounded himself with people who's only purpose in life is kissing his butt there just isn't anyone around.

And that's scary as hell because that means the are no grown-ups in the WH.

 

Very soon, even the Republicans in Congress are going to realize they need to pass legislation to restore their own power over tariffs and spending. If they don't stop this, they're going to be vaporized in the midterms.

He is being very discourteous and just proving to to world what an ill-mannered uncouth vulgar President the US has these days.

 

Personally as an athiest the Pope's death has no effect on me at all but millions around the world are mourning and yet this insensitive heartless uncaring excuse for a man thinks its OK to make a joke of it.

 

 

Come to think of it, Trump becoming pope would be a good thing - anything to get him out of the WH is fine by me. Besides, this gig is made for him! Think about it;

- Very little push-back on anything he says and does.

- Lots of people coming to show their love and admiration at least every Sunday, where he can make incomprehensible word salad for hours on end to an adoring crowd.

- An almost limitless supply of nuns, conveniently all wearing skirts, so he can really dig in and grab their p*****s. And they won't tell because by extension it's the hand of god doing the grabbing.

- Or, if he finds out young boys are his thing then the Catholic church ass literally hundreds and hundreds of your of experience in covering up any "indiscretions".

 

Go for it, Donny!

42 minutes ago, BLMFem said:

Trump traveled to the Vatican late last month to attend the funeral of Pope Francis, who had died several days earlier at age 88."

 

Couldn't even wait for the body to cool.

 

Keep it classy, Donald!

30 minutes ago, gomangosteen said:

Waiting for his next one, the Prophet Trump wearing a beard, accompanied by a 7 year old girl and a goat; a DIY Mohammed kit - not that this would upset anyone in this free speech world

I'm waiting for the King, maybe UK, maybe blackface...

35 minutes ago, BLMFem said:

Yes, this is exactly the sort of thing a president should be doing! Beside golfing, of course.

Like eating ice creme and sniffing women and kids like 46 ?

36 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

True but lefties are bitter and twisted. Very sour people.

This man says the world was laughing at us……says make America great again …..how does disrespecting all the world’s religious leaders help in that quest?it’s straight up imbecile ignorant disgusting pathetic behavior presidential ehh?naa we are well and truly a laughing stock 

52 minutes ago, jas007 said:

You just don't understand Trump.  He's not being serious about the Pope thing.  What he is doing is making fun of all the people who actually think otherwise . 

Doing something like this just after the Pope died is a very disturbed thing, and yes, he was serious, as that's how a narcissist megalomaniac thinks. Untouchable, although he should have learned a lesson awhile back when he was shot at. He didn't, raising his fist, again thinking he's invincible. The highest position a narcissist can have is being the president of the United States. He was already a billionaire, and he wanted to be God, so the next step to this impossible task was president. With this latest endeavor, posing as the Pope, it's his way of showing he's getting closer, although even in his feeble mind, he couldn't have thought he could actually be Pope. Many still can't see him for what he really is, maybe because he helped them in some way, or that hero worship. He's a billionaire, so he must be good.

3 minutes ago, fredwiggy said:

Doing something like this just after the Pope died is a very disturbed thing, and yes, he was serious, as that's how a narcissist megalomaniac thinks. Untouchable, although he should have learned a lesson awhile back when he was shot at. He didn't, raising his fist, again thinking he's invincible. The highest position a narcissist can have is being the president of the United States. He was already a billionaire, and he wanted to be God, so the next step to this impossible task was president. With this latest endeavor, posing as the Pope, it's his way of showing he's getting closer, although even in his feeble mind, he couldn't have thought he could actually be Pope. Many still can't see him for what he really is, maybe because he helped them in some way, or that hero worship. He's a billionaire, so he must be good.

 

 

Humans see and hear what they want to see, nothing else

1 hour ago, John Drake said:

 

Very soon, even the Republicans in Congress are going to realize they need to pass legislation to restore their own power over tariffs and spending. If they don't stop this, they're going to be vaporized in the midterms.

That's their prerogative, although I'm not sure they can pull that off.  

 

Maybe the spending should be curtailed, especially the war budget.  Otherwise?  Maybe not. 

Trump wants to annex the Vatican and make it the 52nd state.