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highplainsdem

(62,463 posts)
Mon Apr 13, 2026, 01:28 PM 2 hrs ago

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

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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Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/trump-cooks-up-bonkers-explanation-for-why-he-posted-meme-seeming-to-depict-himself-as-jesus-i-thought-it-was-me-as-a-doctor/



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
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Trump Cooks Up Bonkers Explanation for Why He Posted Meme Seeming to Depict Him as Jesus: 'I Thought it Was Me as a Doct (Original Post) highplainsdem 2 hrs ago OP
So, does anyone else have a doctor Miguelito Loveless 2 hrs ago #1
Not unless one is suffering with fixed delusions. SheltieLover 2 hrs ago #3
Or dresses like that? Mz Pip 2 hrs ago #11
Keep talking piggy... SheltieLover 2 hrs ago #2
Trump, It was about the Red Cross and me as a doctor. Botany 2 hrs ago #4
His war-criminal pal bibi murdered a few of them in Gaza... Justice matters. 2 hrs ago #18
If I were very sick in the hospital and a doctor showed up in my room looking like that Ocelot II 2 hrs ago #5
Please lock up Grandpa's phone ... he's making a fool of himself again FakeNoose 2 hrs ago #6
What?! Ray Bruns 2 hrs ago #7
Trump, It was about the Red Cross. Botany 2 hrs ago #10
In his head with all the other bullshit he spews out of his mouth. Ray Bruns 2 hrs ago #14
It was a cognitive test Don BaronChocula 2 hrs ago #8
he panicked and chickened out eShirl 2 hrs ago #9
Exactly. He needs to own it & shine in his delusional belief that he is Jesus Christ. tRump should be loud & proud AnotherMother4Peace 2 hrs ago #16
There is nothing he won't refuse to take responsibility for doing Attilatheblond 2 hrs ago #12
His crazy talk has no bottom. relogic 2 hrs ago #13
Lying sack of pestilent orange puke EuterpeThelo 2 hrs ago #15
A DOCTOR who says wait for gas prices to come down soon? Justice matters. 2 hrs ago #17
When I saw the image, I thought it was from The Onion ... SorellaLaBefana 2 hrs ago #19
Trump said he posted it [Sun night]-Then says he just heard about itMonday morning!! riversedge 1 hr ago #20
He is no doctor bmichaelh 1 hr ago #21
And a doctor's looking @ you thingy too Botany 59 min ago #24
Yes that's me as a doctor, Dr. Jesus Christopher. ToxMarz 1 hr ago #22
It is profoundly humiliating that Americans elected this feeble old cretin President Prairie Gates 1 hr ago #23
Did he explain why he altered the image to show a flying demon rather than an American soldier? Midnight Writer 47 min ago #25
We all know that doctors dress like Jesus so it makes perfect sense. cstanleytech 46 min ago #26
Headline should be "Senile Self-declared Christian Unable to Recognize Ubiquitous Modern American Jesus Iconography" RockRaven 43 min ago #27
He's no doctor, but I don't doubt that he's taken the Hypocritical Oath to "do harm". Marcuse 43 min ago #28
He is lying. He knew what he was doing. republianmushroom 42 min ago #29
His bullshit is as lame as his administration's policies. WestMichRad 39 min ago #30
It told another Lie. dave99 39 min ago #31
And a dog ate my homework .. Bo Zarts 38 min ago #32
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! paleotn 37 min ago #33
Dr. Death - everything he touches dies. Talitha 31 min ago #34
Look at all the times he has played dress up on his cards not a texan 27 min ago #35
that would mean that trump is too stupid to be President samsingh 25 min ago #36
Sorry never have seen a doctor with a flowing white robe with a red sash kimbutgar 11 min ago #37

Botany

(77,484 posts)
4. Trump, It was about the Red Cross and me as a doctor.
Mon Apr 13, 2026, 01:32 PM
2 hrs ago

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

The fucker is nutz.

Justice matters.

(9,860 posts)
18. His war-criminal pal bibi murdered a few of them in Gaza...
Mon Apr 13, 2026, 02:12 PM
2 hrs ago

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

Ocelot II

(130,753 posts)
5. If I were very sick in the hospital and a doctor showed up in my room looking like that
Mon Apr 13, 2026, 01:38 PM
2 hrs ago

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.

Ray Bruns

(6,456 posts)
7. What?!
Mon Apr 13, 2026, 01:44 PM
2 hrs ago

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.

AnotherMother4Peace

(5,152 posts)
16. Exactly. He needs to own it & shine in his delusional belief that he is Jesus Christ. tRump should be loud & proud
Mon Apr 13, 2026, 02:01 PM
2 hrs ago

that he is no mere mortal.

Attilatheblond

(8,993 posts)
12. There is nothing he won't refuse to take responsibility for doing
Mon Apr 13, 2026, 01:55 PM
2 hrs ago

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

Hold him accountable.

relogic

(194 posts)
13. His crazy talk has no bottom.
Mon Apr 13, 2026, 01:56 PM
2 hrs ago

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

(389 posts)
15. Lying sack of pestilent orange puke
Mon Apr 13, 2026, 02:00 PM
2 hrs ago

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.

(9,860 posts)
17. A DOCTOR who says wait for gas prices to come down soon?
Mon Apr 13, 2026, 02:07 PM
2 hrs ago

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

SorellaLaBefana

(511 posts)
19. When I saw the image, I thought it was from The Onion ...
Mon Apr 13, 2026, 02:13 PM
2 hrs ago

"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

(81,013 posts)
20. Trump said he posted it [Sun night]-Then says he just heard about itMonday morning!!
Mon Apr 13, 2026, 02:32 PM
1 hr ago

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

(1,205 posts)
21. He is no doctor
Mon Apr 13, 2026, 02:33 PM
1 hr ago

Those are not scrubs.

And where is his stethoscope.

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


ToxMarz

(2,966 posts)
22. Yes that's me as a doctor, Dr. Jesus Christopher.
Mon Apr 13, 2026, 02:38 PM
1 hr ago

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

Midnight Writer

(25,501 posts)
25. Did he explain why he altered the image to show a flying demon rather than an American soldier?
Mon Apr 13, 2026, 03:33 PM
47 min ago

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.

RockRaven

(19,494 posts)
27. Headline should be "Senile Self-declared Christian Unable to Recognize Ubiquitous Modern American Jesus Iconography"
Mon Apr 13, 2026, 03:37 PM
43 min ago

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

dave99

(36 posts)
31. It told another Lie.
Mon Apr 13, 2026, 03:42 PM
39 min ago

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

Talitha

(8,055 posts)
34. Dr. Death - everything he touches dies.
Mon Apr 13, 2026, 03:49 PM
31 min ago

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

(94 posts)
35. Look at all the times he has played dress up on his cards
Mon Apr 13, 2026, 03:53 PM
27 min ago

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.

kimbutgar

(27,309 posts)
37. Sorry never have seen a doctor with a flowing white robe with a red sash
Mon Apr 13, 2026, 04:09 PM
11 min ago

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

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