President deletes the AI image showing him as a Jesus-like healer; Pope Leo says he has no fear.

OK. Hon. On Sunday, on Truth Social, the President posted an AI-generated image of himself, in a white robe, placing a hand on the head of another man, in a healing pose, in the visual grammar of Jesus laying hands on the sick. The image did not have an AI label. The image was not labeled satire. The image was the post.

By Monday, the post was down. The post came down because Bishop Robert Barron, who sits on the President’s own Religious Liberty Commission, on the public record, called the post quote, entirely inappropriate and disrespectful. This is Bishop Barron. Of Word on Fire. The most influential Catholic content creator in the United States. On the President’s own commission. Saying, quote, entirely inappropriate.

That is the kind of public correction that, in any other Catholic-adjacent administration of the last forty years, would have triggered a full apology tour. In this one, it triggered a quiet deletion. No statement. No I shouldn’t have posted that. No the staff did it. The post was there. Then the post was not there.

Pope Leo XIV, on the same Monday, in Rome, said, quote, he had no fear of the Trump administration and did not want to get into a debate with him. The Pope. In Rome. On the record. In English.

I have been in places where men with too much money hire artists to paint them as important figures from history. I have seen a man in Cherry Hill hang a portrait of himself as George Washington crossing the Delaware in the lobby of his car dealership. That guy at least paid an artist. That guy at least had to pose. The President, hon, used a generator, on a phone, on a Sunday, and posted the result, with no caption, as a first-person image of himself in the role of the literal Christ. The image, hon, did not even ask the generator to show his face. The figure in the image has the outline of the President in a white robe. The crowd nodded.

Buddy. The Pope said I have no fear. The Pope. The guy whose job description literally contains the word fearless. That is the Pope talking down to the President of the United States in English.

You ever notice how the most religious White House in modern memory keeps getting corrected by bishops on its own commission and the actual Pope?

Funny how that works.