Overview
- Jimmy Kimmel ridiculed Vice President JD Vance for calling President Trump’s Jesus-style image post a joke that people failed to understand, airing Vance’s Fox News remarks.
- Trump had shared an AI image that placed his face on a robed healer and later said he thought it showed him as a doctor before deleting the post.
- Religious leaders and politicians from both parties criticized the use of sacred imagery to glorify a political figure.
- Trump followed with another AI picture that showed Jesus hugging him and wrote, “The Radical Left Lunatics might not like this, but I think it is quite nice!!!”.
- The dispute unfolded alongside a clash with the Vatican after Pope Leo XIV criticized U.S. actions in the Iran war and Trump labeled the pope “WEAK”.