Trump depicted as pope in AI-generated photo

Trump attended Pope Francis‘ funeral in Rome final weekend, throughout which he additionally met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

On Tuesday, days after coming back from Francis’ funeral, Trump joked to reporters outdoors the White Home that he’d “wish to be pope,” including, “that may be my primary selection.”

He adopted up by saying that he has “no choice” over who’s in the end chosen.

Vice President JD Vance, who converted to Catholicism in 2019, met with the Roman Catholic pontiff sooner or later earlier than his dying.

Francis died of a stroke that in the end led to irreversible coronary heart failure, in response to a dying certificates issued by the Vatican.

The submit of the AI-generated picture sparked widespread social media response, with some customers defending it as a joke and others strongly denouncing the picture.

The New York State Catholic Convention, which represents the state’s bishops, starkly condemned the submit, saying, “there’s nothing intelligent or humorous about this picture.”

“We simply buried our beloved Pope Francis and the cardinals are about to enter a solemn conclave to elect a brand new successor of St. Peter,” the convention stated in a post on X.

“Don’t mock us,” the submit continued.

Former Republican Nationwide Committee chairman Michael Steele, an outspoken Trump critic, criticized the submit and said it “affirms how unserious and incapable [Trump] is.”

It isn’t the primary time that the White Home shared a controversial AI-generated picture of Trump.

In February, White Home Deputy Chief of Employees Taylor Budowich posted an AI-generated picture of Trump depicted as a king, after the administration moved to get rid of New York Metropolis’s congestion pricing program.

Trump referred to himself because the king in a Fact Social submit touting that “congestion pricing is lifeless.”

“Manhattan and all of New York, is saved. Lengthy dwell the king,” Trump wrote on Fact Social in February.