Donald Trump has resorted to artificial intelligence to recreate an image that has not sat well in the Catholic community or inside or … outside the United States. In the photograph, disseminated in his social truth account and shared by the White House in his official profile in X, apparently outside the possible controversy, the American president appears dressed in potatoes. The snapshot reaches a few days after the start of the conclave (May 7) for the choice of the successor of Francisco I, at whose funeral in the Vatican the Republican leader came with his wife, Melania, a week ago.
The recreation of Pope Trump adds to the recent statements of the president of the United States about his favorite candidate to become a pontiff that many have considered irreverent. The tycoon did not hesitate to choose one: he himself. «I would like to be dad. That would be my number one option. I think it would be a great Pope, nobody would do better than me, ”the president joked last Wednesday, than in the image generated by artificial intelligence appears with White Sotana, Mitra and Cruz Golda while giving the blessing.
The Republican, however, has also suggested his preference for Timothy Michael Dolan, Archbishop of New York, among all the ‘papables’. «I must say that there is a cardinal from a place called New York that is very good. We will see what happens, ”said the magnate about the prelate that in 2013, when Francisco was chosen, received two votes to take the reins of the Catholic Church.
The Vatican spokesman, Matteo Bruni, refused to comment on photography during an informative meeting with journalists about the next conclave. It is not the first time, yes, that the US president ‘faces the Catholic Church. He did a few days ago, at the Pope’s funeral, when the protocol jumped when he went dressed in blue and not black mourning, a tradition that his wife did. But not everyone has silent about the president’s snapshot. The Republicans Against Trump movement – a group that defines itself as “Conservative Republicans Prodemocracy that fight against Trump and Trumpism” – described the idea of ”flagrant insult to Catholics and a mockery to their faith.”
