US President Donald Trump’s Truth Post in papal clothing
Courtesy: The White House via X, formerly Twitter
Trump attended the funeral of Pope Francis in Rome last weekend, in which he also met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zenskyy.
On Tuesday, days after return from Francis’s funeral, Trump joked with reporters outside the White House that he would be ‘Pope’, adding ‘, that would be my number one choice. “
He followed by saying that “no preference” has above who was ultimately selected.
Vice -President JD Vance, who converted to Catholicism in 2019, met the Roman Catholic Pope a day before his death.
Francis died of a stroke that eventually led to irreversible heart failure, according to a death certificate issued by the Vatican.
The post of the AI-generated image led to response to Widepretad Social Media, in which sub-users defended a joke and relieving others.
The Catholic conference of the state of New York, which represents the Bishops of the State, strongly condemned the function.
“There is nothing smart or funny about this image,” said in a message on X.
“We have just buried our beloved Pope Francis and the cardinals are about to enter a solemn conclave to choose a new successor by St. Peter,” the group said.
“Don’t mock us.”
Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, an Outsk [Trump] Es. “
Conservative commentator Bill Kristol, a hard critic of Trump, asked Vance in a message on X: “Hey, @jdvance, this lack of respect and the spot of the Holy Father?”
Vance shot back on Kristol in an answer to X, that Refery Kristol was in favor of the American invasion of Iraq in 2003.
“As a general rule, I think it’s fine with people who tell jokes and are not in order with people who start stupid wars those thousands of my countrymen,” wrote Vance, who served as an American navy in Iraq.
White House Pers Secretary Karoline Leavitt asked to respond to criticism of the image, said: “President Trump flew to Italy to express his respect for Pope Francis and his funeral attend, and he has been to stunch champion for Catholics and religious freedom,” said Associated Press.
This is not the first time that the White House shared a controversial AI-believed image of Trump.
In February, the deputy Staff Chef Taylor Budowich of the White House placed an image of Trump depicted as a king after the administration moved to eliminate New York City’s congestion program.
Trump called himself the king in a truth that encouraged social post that “congestie prizes are dead.”
“Manhattan and the whole of New York, has been saved. Long life the king,” Trump wrote about Truth Social in February.
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