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AI image of Trump as pope 'mocking' Catholic Church
The Independent
|May 05, 2025
Donald Trump has been described as "a clown" after posting an image of himself as the pope on social media.
The AI-generated picture caused anger ahead of this week's gathering of cardinals to choose a new leader of the 1.4 billion-strong Catholic Church. It comes just days after the US president joked that he would “like to be pope".
Mr Trump, who is not a Catholic and does not attend church regularly, posted the image on his Truth Social platform late on Friday, less than a week after attending the funeral of Pope Francis, who died aged 88 last month. The White House then reposted it on its official X (Twitter) account.The image shows an unsmiling Mr Trump seated in an ornate chair, dressed in white papal vestments and headdress, with right forefinger raised.
This story is from the May 05, 2025 edition of The Independent.
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