On Sunday night, Trump posted an AI-generated image on Truth Social showing himself in flowing robes, laying his hands on a sick man in a hospital bed as divine light emanates from his fingers. Behind him, the American flag, the Statue of Liberty, eagles, fighter jets and angelic figures in the sky. The scene replicates the biblical miracle of raising Lazarus from the dead.

He posted it just 40 minutes after launching a furious attack on Pope Leo XIV on the same platform. He called him “WEAK on Crime” and “terrible for Foreign Policy,” said he doesn’t want “a Pope who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon,” and even praised the Pope’s brother over him because “Louis is all MAGA.”

The context makes it even more disturbing. Just days earlier, at the White House Easter service, pastor Paula White compared Trump to Jesus Christ, calling him “the greatest champion of faith we’ve ever seen in a president” and likening his “suffering” to Christ’s.