President Donald Trump, in a Friday "Truth" on Truth Social, posted up an AI-generated picture of himself as the pope — and some followers of his Make America Great Again movement aren’t too pleased with their leader’s posting of such a meme.
Trump’s post came a few days after he joked that he’d like to be the next leader of the Catholic Church, saying that he would be his own ‘number one choice’ for the position,” Politico reports.
“This is worse than trolling,” X user @amitylee13, who describes herself as a “Catholic” “conservative,” wrote in a tweet Saturday. “You’re going to lose a lot of Catholic support over stunts like this.”
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User @MollyCatahoula agreed. “I’m a Trump supporter. In fact I’m MAGA through and through but I’m also Catholic and I really don’t care for this,” they wrote.
User @JECar1973, who describes himself as “Catholic” and “MAGA,” called the meme “offensive.”
“We are MAGA and not a cult,” @JECar1973 wrote. “[It’s] ok to get mad at Trump when he does stupid stuff.”
“I love Trump but find his Pope meme disrespectful and insulting,” @cigar_vet wrote. “God will not be mocked. Not a wise decision.”
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But not all Catholics were offended by the president’s meme.
“As a general rule, I’m fine with people telling jokes and not fine with people starting stupid wars that kill thousands of my countrymen,” Vice President JD Vance, a devout Catholic, wrote on X Saturday.
Vance met with Pope Francis on Easter Sunday just one day before the pope’s death last month.
Vance described the timing as “a sign from God to remember that you never know when your last day on this Earth is.”
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