Home Speaker Mike Johnson says he spoke with President Donald Trump about his now-deleted social media put up through which he in contrast himself to a Christ-like therapeutic determine.
The Sunday night Reality Social put up depicted Trump, sporting a white gown coated by a purple scarf, touching his proper hand to the brow of one other man mendacity in a mattress sporting a hospital robe. Surrounding Trump and the bedridden man had been a number of People in varied roles: a nurse, and a lady praying.
The picture background included an American flag, the Statue of Liberty and different traditional American iconography together with a number of figures within the clouds above him, together with a winged, three-horned determine descending from the heavens.
By midday Monday, the put up was deleted from Reality Social.
When requested by a reporter Tuesday on Capitol Hill about whether or not the president’s put up constituted blasphemy, Johnson stated, “I talked with the president about it as soon as I saw it and told him that I don’t think it was being received in the same way he intended. He agreed and he pulled it down.”
Johnson, a former professor, lawyer and former trustee for the Southern Baptist Conference’s Ethics & Spiritual Liberty Fee, stated the president agreed together with his evaluation and “pulled [the post] down.” The Home speaker added that doing so was the “right thing to do” and that he doesn’t imagine Trump supposed to disrespect the Lord Jesus or Christians usually.
“He explained how he saw that, and I don’t think he thought it was sacrilegious at all,” he stated.
At a White Home media briefing Monday, Trump revealed that he posted the picture himself as a result of he “thought it was me as a doctor.”
“I did post it, and I thought it was me as a doctor and had to do with the Red Cross,” the president said. “There was a Red Cross worker there, which we support.”
The image shared on social media did include a nurse, but there was no indication of a Red Cross worker in the image.
Trump blamed “the fake news” for alleging the image compared him to Jesus. “It’s supposed to be me as a doctor, making people better, and I do make people better,” he said. “I make people a lot better.”
The put up drew condemnation on social media from various former Trump supporters, together with former Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Inexperienced, who wrote: “It’s greater than blasphemy. It’s an Antichrist spirit.”
Christ Church Pastor Douglas Wilson said he was “very grateful” for Christians who pushed back on the post. “I was very grateful to see how many conservative Christians immediately denounced the blasphemous Jesus/Trump image,” Wilson wrote. “I was also grateful to see how many center/left Christians suddenly agreed that public blasphemy is a thing we should all be concerned about. A bit late, but still good.”
Conservative influencer Riley Gaines wrote: “Seriously, I cannot understand why he’d post this. Is he looking for a response? Does he actually think this? Either way, two things are true. 1) a little humility would serve him well 2) God shall not be mocked.”
The controversial post comes just days after Paula White-Cain, who serves as the senior advisor to the White House Faith Office, compared Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign — including surviving two failed assassination attempts — with the persecution of Jesus leading to His crucifixion.
In remarks she gave during a private Easter lunch at the White House with other Christian leaders, White-Cain claimed God told her to tell Trump how thankful she is for him, according to footage of the ceremony that was uploaded by the White House to YouTube before being taken down.
Ian M. Giatti is a reporter for The Christian Put up. He will be reached at: ian.giatti@christianpost.com.
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