Catholic Conference of New York State issues statement after Donald Trump shared an AI Photo dressed as Pope.
US President Donald Trump shared an AI-generated photo showing himself as the pope ahead of this week’s meeting of cardinals to select a new leader of the 1.4-billion-strong Catholic Church, and just days after he joked he would “like to be pope”.
Recall that Donald Trump, who is not a Catholic, shared the image on his Truth Social platform late on Friday, May 2, less than a week after attending the funeral of Pope Francis, who died at 88 last month.
The White House then reposted the photo on its official X account.
The image shows an unsmiling Trump seated in a chair, dressed in white papal vestments and headdress, with right forefinger raised.
The photo drew instant outrage on X, including from Republicans against Trump, a group that describes itself as “pro-democracy conservative Republicans fighting Trump & Trumpism.”
The group reposted the image, calling it “a blatant insult to Catholics and a mockery of their faith”.
Before posting the AI photo, Trump on Tuesday, April 29, had jokingly said he would be his own first choice before adding that there was a “very good” candidate in New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan.
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