Trump Cooks Up Bonkers Explanation for Why He Posted Meme Seeming to Depict Him as Jesus: 'I Thought it Was Me as a Doct

[highplainsdem]

Source: Mediaite

Trump Cooks Up Bonkers Explanation for Why He Posted Meme Seeming to Depict Him as Jesus: ‘I Thought it Was Me as a Doctor’

President Donald Trump delivered a bizarre explanation for his now-deleted Truth Social post in which he appeared to share a meme depicting him as Jesus Christ.

Speaking with reporters outside the White House on Monday, the president was asked if he, in fact, had posted the meme. He confirmed he did, and then proceeded to claim that he believed the image — which showed him putting healing hands on a sick man — portrayed him as a doctor rather than Jesus.

“I did post it, and I thought it was me as a doctor — and, had to do with Red Cross, as a Red Cross worker there, which we support,” Trump said. “And only the fake news could come up with that one. So I just heard about it, and I said, ‘How do they come up with that?’ It’s supposed to be me as doctor making people better, and I do make people better. I make people a lot better.”

Trump faced rare condemnation from many in his MAGA base for posting the image — though many of those critics promptly applauded him for deleting the post.

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Q: Did you post that picture of yourself depicted as Jesus Christ?

TRUMP: I did post it and I thought it was me as a doctor and had to do Red Cross. Only the fake news could come up with that one.

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-04-13T16:44:05.081Z

[Miguelito Loveless]

1. So, does anyone else have a doctor

whose hands glow?

[SheltieLover]

3. Not unless one is suffering with fixed delusions.

[Mz Pip]

11. Or dresses like that?

Never seen scrubs so Jesus like.

[Warpy]

43. Or who dresses quite like that or is surrounded by angels or has a halo

Man< do love the smell of blowback and the Christosphere is royall pissed off at this one.

I'll say one thing, he's getting pretty consistently tone deaf to a lot of cultural coding. He's really lost the plot.

[SheltieLover]

2. Keep talking piggy...

[Botany]

4. Trump, It was about the Red Cross and me as a doctor.

Ok so where was the Red Cross badges or any doctor gear on Donny?

The fucker is nutz.

[Justice matters.]

18. His war-criminal pal bibi murdered a few of them in Gaza...

And would still do the same in Lebanon, if not already...

[Ocelot II]

5. If I were very sick in the hospital and a doctor showed up in my room looking like that

I'd assume they'd given me some very strong drugs or that I was dead. I would definitely not assume that the apparition was a doctor.

[FakeNoose]

6. Please lock up Grandpa's phone ... he's making a fool of himself again

[Ray Bruns]

7. What?!

I’ve been on this planet for 61 years and I’ve never seen a doctor with glowing shit in their hands or people praying to them.

[Botany]

10. Trump, It was about the Red Cross.

So where was the American Red Cross logo?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Flag_of_the_Red_Cross.svg

[Ray Bruns]

14. In his head with all the other bullshit he spews out of his mouth.

[BaronChocula]

8. It was a cognitive test Don

You failed.

[progressoid]

45. Yep

N/T

[eShirl]

9. he panicked and chickened out

his low-effort lies are insulting

[AnotherMother4Peace]

16. Exactly. He needs to own it & shine in his delusional belief that he is Jesus Christ. tRump should be loud & proud

that he is no mere mortal.

[Attilatheblond]

12. There is nothing he won't refuse to take responsibility for doing

Nobody should have been allowed to live so long constantly ducking responsibility for ANYTHING.

Hold him accountable.

[relogic]

13. His crazy talk has no bottom.

What next-“I was told that if I didn’t like the vote count our peaceful insurrection according to my own Constitution would go unchallenged to overturn the results and furthermore my oun SC gives me immunity to do whatever the hell I want anyway”. Thank you for your attention as long as you can stomach my pronouncements.”

[EuterpeThelo]

15. Lying sack of pestilent orange puke

You don't make people better. You've never made a SINGLE thing or person better in your entire miserable, way-too-long life.

Moreover, you fucking murdered the love of my life with your weaponized incompetence. Ripped out of my life without warning after 20+ years of being in constant communication and I didn't even get to say goodbye. I, along with millions of other people, will suffer horribly until the day I die because of the bottomless pit that is the ego of this senile, insane orange idiot.

And you didn't mistake the image for a second. You just thought you could get away with it just like you do everything else.

I don't believe in hell but him and every person who has ever done a single thing to enable him make me wish I did.

[Justice matters.]

17. A DOCTOR who says wait for gas prices to come down soon?

Yeah, rrrrrrrright... as soon as the wait for his best-healthcare-plan-the-world-has-ever-seen-soon wait is.

[SorellaLaBefana]

19. When I saw the image, I thought it was from The Onion ...

"Jesus wept" John 11:35

But not, as at the original event in Bethany, because of His seeing the suffering of others of Lazarus's friends (suffering He somehow strangely allowed to occur since He already planned to raise Laz from the dead — however, apparently, the time was not yet right) but because now this amoral, grasping orange faced conman seems to be taking His place?

[riversedge]

20. Trump said he posted it [Sun night]-Then says he just heard about itMonday morning!!

Trump says both of these things--all in the SAME comment!!



Trump faces backlash after posting AI image appearing to depict him like Jesus


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-posts-ai-image-jesus-christ/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

Updated on: April 13, 2026 / 1:02 PM EDT / CBS News


Washington — President Trump on Monday defended his decision to post an AI-generated image appearing to depict him in the likeness of Jesus, insisting the image shows him as a "doctor."

The post on Sunday night sparked intense backlash, even from some of the president's most vocal supporters, and the image was deleted from the president's Truth Social account by Monday morning.

"I did post it, and I thought it was me as a doctor," the president told reporters in an impromptu press conference outside the Oval Office. "And it had to do with Red Cross. There's a Red Cross worker there, which we support. And only the fake news could come up with that one.

He continued: "So I — I just heard about it. And I said, 'How did they come up with that?' It's supposed to be me as a doctor, making people better, and I do make people better."

The post came on Orthodox Easter, exactly one week after other Christians in the U.S. and around the world celebrated Christ's resurrection on Easter Sunday. ................

[bmichaelh]

21. He is no doctor

Those are not scrubs.

And where is his stethoscope.

He is not a doctor; maybe a mortician with his healthcare policies.

[Botany]

24. And a doctor's looking @ you thingy too

[ToxMarz]

22. Yes that's me as a doctor, Dr. Jesus Christopher.

Imagine the headlines if Biden had said he thought he was a doctor.

[Prairie Gates]

23. It is profoundly humiliating that Americans elected this feeble old cretin President

[Midnight Writer]

25. Did he explain why he altered the image to show a flying demon rather than an American soldier?

The alteration of the image shows that this was a planned, thought-out posting.

My guess is that one of his sycophantic aides doctored up the image, showed it to him, and he was so impressed with it that he posted it.

[cstanleytech]

26. We all know that doctors dress like Jesus so it makes perfect sense.

[RockRaven]

27. Headline should be "Senile Self-declared Christian Unable to Recognize Ubiquitous Modern American Jesus Iconography"

It's a bit of a mouthful, I admit.

[Marcuse]

28. He's no doctor, but I don't doubt that he's taken the Hypocritical Oath to "do harm".

[republianmushroom]

29. He is lying. He knew what he was doing.

[WestMichRad]

30. His bullshit is as lame as his administration's policies.

[dave99]

31. It told another Lie.

very simple to print in newspaper or tell to the listeners of TV or radio

[Bo Zarts]

32. And a dog ate my homework ..

A homework-eating dog.

[paleotn]

33. BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Bullshit.

[Talitha]

34. Dr. Death - everything he touches dies.

You knew damned well what it was but your psychotic mind thought it was funny so you posted it. And when confronted, you lie.

Doctor my ass - the world is calling bullshit on you, donny. Put a bar of soap in your mouth and go sit in the corner for a few decades.

[not a texan]

35. Look at all the times he has played dress up on his cards

Just a short list but he has been a cowboy, fireman, super hero, and many others. He managed to know who he was dressing up as when he did those. So I am calling bullshit on this latest excuse.

There may be one reason to believe him. He is missing the collection plate. If he was dressing up as Jesus he would probably be collecting gifts. The three wise men should have been in the picture for a second round of grifting.

[samsingh]

36. that would mean that trump is too stupid to be President

[maxsolomon]

38. He is too stupid to be President.

It's completely likely he didn't even think about the iconography before reposting. He makes decisions in haste and always has. "Following his gut". That's stupidity.

He's gaslighting the planet rather than admit he was wrong.

[kimbutgar]

37. Sorry never have seen a doctor with a flowing white robe with a red sash

I was in the emergency room Friday and the doctor who saw me was wearing grey scrubs..

[3825-87867]

39. All these years JC was not white!

Now we find he's actually orange?
Better change some paintings!

[BHDem53]

40. Doc Taco.

[Kid Berwyn]

41. Doc Tofu, BS

Even when the truth would help him, the only thing Dimdonniechucklenuts can think to do is lie.

[twodogsbarking]

42. Those aren't scrubs he is wearing.

[SergeStorms]

44. I have absolutely no doubt....

that's how he sees himself, as orange jebus healing the sick and blessing the world with his very presence.

His ego is that monstrous.

[DrFunkenstein]

46. This Man Has The Power to Launch Thousands of Nuclear Missles

He needs to be put in a home.

[Dr. T]

47. Superimpose Obama's face over the Orange Jesus

and see what kind of reaction you get from the right wing nut jobs.

[DUMember24]

48. Yeah if he thought the robe was his straight jacket.

.

[tavernier]

49. He said he makes people better?

I think he meant to say that he makes people deader.