Mike Johnson Refuses To Say Whether Trump's AI Jesus Post Was Blasphemy

Source: Huff Post

Apr 14, 2026, 04:31 PM EDT | Updated 10 hours ago


House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) attempted to excuse President Donald Trump for posting an AI image of himself resembling Jesus. But the response Tuesday from the self-professed Christian seemed to suggest who he really worships. Trump posted the AI Jesus image on his Truth Social platform Sunday, which just happened to be Orthodox Easter. The post also came at a time when the president is feuding with Pope Leo XIV over the war in Iran.

The post was pretty much condemned across the board, including by fellow Republicans, former Trump officials and advisers, religious leaders, and, of course, Jimmy Kimmel and Jon Stewart. Trump later deleted the post and claimed he thought the image “was me as a doctor.”

Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic convert, defended Trump’s post Monday on Fox News, saying he thought the president meant the post as a joke and took it down “because he recognized that a lot of people weren’t understanding his humor in that case.”

On Tuesday, Johnson offered his own form of damage control fealty when CNN’s Veronica Stracqualursi asked him if he thought the Jesus post was “blasphemy.”. “I talked with the president about it as soon as I saw it,” Johnson said. “And I told him I don’t think it was being received in the same way he intended it. He agreed, and he pulled it down. That was the right thing to do.

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