I was annoyed last night when I found that the Washington Post, New York Times and even the Guardian all had reports on Trump's Truth Social attack on the Pope, but failed to mention that shortly after it Trump had posted this image, which will probably infamously feature in some future history books, I expect:
Why are they ignoring this, I wondered. It was all over X and Bluesky, with many questioning not just the obvious reference to either Jesus or God the Father, but why the image in the sky (which had been a soldier in the original nutty version) had been converted to something looking demonic.
Apparently, there were heaps of MAGA defenders trying to excuse it as "not posted by Trump personally, but by a staffer".
It obviously got noticed by enough Christian insiders who presumably contacted him and told it was a step too far, so Trump deleted it and then (hilariously) admitted to personally posting it and claimed it didn't show him as Jesus, but as a Red Cross doctor!! (He is being widely mocked for that weak explanation.)
He also tried to say it was only the Mainstream Media that would claim it depicted him as Jesus - yet, as I say, last night I saw that the post had been up for 7 or 8 hours and the MSM had completely ignored it, even though they had dealt in detail with the Pope attack post which had gone up only shortly before it.
So, I am glad that it blew up, finally (it does now have large coverage on all MSM) but I think the delay in dealing with it is an example of how the media now is far, far too cautious on dealing with Trump.
As a final note: some online have been joking that the sick or dying man in the image looks like Epstein. To my mind, it looks more like Jon Stewart - and I hope the comedian agrees as his reaction could be very funny.
Update: I also note that the media which perceives its job as defending Trump relentlessly - such as Fox News, the Hot Air blog, Newsmax - either have not covered the story at all on their websites, or buried far down amidst all of the pro-Trump stuff. Interestingly, though, since I rarely look at it, Newsmax's headline is currently this:
Oil Prices are expected to continue rising until significant ship traffic resumes through the Hormuz Strait, he the Semafor World Economy Forum. This, despite previous speculation that oil would come down soon. "We're going to see energy prices high — and maybe even rising — until we get meaningful ship traffic.
That's not exactly a headline Trump would welcome...
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This does not come from a person who has all his faculties. It also shows again as a politician he is hopeless
He can get away with it because his supporters have elevated him to son of god status, that term frequently used by Roman political leaders to denote their supra human status.
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