Zoom in Iconarrows that show outwards
US President Donald Trump's truth post in papal clothing
Kind approval: The White House via X, formerly Twitter
Trump visited Pope Francis in Rome last weekend, where he also met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
On Tuesday, day after his return from Francis' funeral, Trump joked reporters outside the White House that he “would like to be a Pope” and added: “That would be my number.”
He followed that he has “no preference” who is ultimately selected.
Vice President JD Vance, who converted to Catholicism in 2019, met the Roman Catholic Pope one day before his death.
Francis died of a stroke, which ultimately led to irreversible heart failure, as can be seen from an death certificate issued by the Vatican.
The contribution of the AI-generated picture triggered a widespread reaction to social media, with some users defended it as a joke and others denounce the picture.
The Catholic conference of the New York state, which represents the state's bishops, expressly condemned the position.
“This picture has nothing clever or funny,” said in a contribution to X.
“We have just buried our beloved Pope Francis, and the cardinals will just enter a solemn conclave to choose a new successor to St. Peter,” said the group.
“It didn't mock us.”
The former chairman of the Republican National Committee, Michael Steele, a pronounced Trump critic, criticized the post and said: “Confirmed how unintellia and incapable [Trump] Is.”
Read more CNBC policy reporting
The conservative commentator Bill Kristol, a hard critic of Trump, asked Vance in a post on X: “Hey, @Jdvance, you are good with this disrespect and mocking of the Holy Father?”
Vance shot back to X in Kristol, in which Kristol released a US invasion of Iraq in the United States in 2003.
“As a rule, I am okay when people who tell jokes and not well with people who start stupid wars, kill the thousands of my compatriots,” wrote Vance, who served as US navy in Iraq.
The press spokesman for the White House, Karoline Leavitt, asked to react to the criticism of the picture, “President Trump flew to Italy to satisfy Pope Francis and take part in his funeral.
This is not the first time that the white house shares a controversial ai-generated picture of Trump.
In February, Taylor Budowich, deputy chief of staff of the White House, released a picture of Trump as King after the administration led to the elimination of the New York traffic jam program.
Trump described himself as the king in a social truth that “congestion prices are dead”.
“Manhattan and all of New York are saved. The king lives,” Trump wrote in February about the social affairs of truth.
– CNBCS And manganese contributed to this story.
Comments are closed.