The New York State Catholic Conference accused the president of USA, Donald Trumpto make fun of faith, after the president published an image of his dressed as a potato that has gone viral.
The controversial image of the American ruler is made with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) and presents it with white cassock, Mitra, Cruz Dorada and seems to be to give a blessing, since it has a right arm inclined to shoulder height and with the index finger raised.
Image made with artificial intelligence (AI) taken from the official account of the social network Truth Social @realdonaldTrump that shows the president of the United States, Donald Trump. The image of the American ruler appears while the Catholic Church awaits the celebration of the conclave that will choose the new Pontiff, next Wednesday. EFE/ @REALDONALDTRUMP
“This image has nothing ingeniousnor fun, Mr. President, ”wrote the Catholic group in an X publication.
“We have just built our beloved Pope Francis and the cardinals are about to enter a solemn conclave to choose the new successor of St. Peter. Do not make fun of us,” added the conference.
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Trump’s image appears while the Catholic Church awaits next Wednesday the beginning of the conclave that will choose his new pontiff, after the death of Pope Francis and whose funerals attended the US president himself and two days after the Republican president suggested that he would be a good option to occupy the throne of St. Peter.
“I would like to be dad. That would be my number one option. I think it would be a great Pope. No one would do it better than me, ”said the president on Wednesday from the White House.
For his part, the US vice president, JD Vance, converted to Catholicism and who was the last public official who attended the missing Pope Francis, defended Trump into a publication in his X account by arguing that the image should be taken as a joke.
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The discomfort expressed by the New York Catholic Conference, contrasts with Trump’s idea that he would like the New York archbishop, Cardinal Timothy Michael Dollan, one of the American prelates present in the conclave, was the next Pope.
