Hell, no. Donald Trump isn’t Jesus Christ | Opinion
Jesus. Normally, I don’t swear in writing, but that is the only response that does justice to President Donald Trump’s decision to post an image with his fake-tanned face replacing the face of Jesus, the Son of God, whose execution saved the world from sin and death.
If ever there were a sign that the man in the Oval Office had lost his faculties and needed to be quickly removed from power by his Cabinet, this has got to be it. Only in the mind of a serial cheating, bankrupt, sexual assaulting cavorter with Jeffrey Epstein, two-time attacker of foreign nations would Trump think he might be in line to join the Trinity.
If you’re a slow learner, Trump spent the weekend attacking the vicar of Christ on Earth, the first American Pope, Leo. “Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Of course the man who holds the same position as the Apostle of Jesus, St. Peter, would be weak on crime. Jesus forgave everybody — even the Romans who killed him and the religious leaders who urged them on. Christ’s last act on Earth was to tell the two criminals crucified with him that they were going to heaven.
Here I want to swear again. I mean seriously, how messed up can you be to complain that the most prominent follower of Jesus on the planet would offer forgiveness for sins, even criminal ones?
Would Jesus so lust for Greenland that he’d threaten a loyal, peaceful democratic ally?
Hmmm, lust. That gets me thinking of the seven deadly sins.
Trump has them all.
Pride — Does equating himself with the Savior count? Check.
Greed — Billionaire using government to pad his family’s pockets? Check.
Lust — Cheating on his wife with a porn star while his wife is pregnant with his kid? Check.
Envy — Back to that Greenland thing and thinking Canada should be the 51st state? Check,
Gluttony — Big Macs for everyone? Check.
Wrath — Good Lord, can we look at the smoking ruins of Iran? Check.
Sloth — Is he the laziest president ever? He attacked Iran without bothering to come up with a plan to get oil out of the Persian Gulf, the single most obvious problem with attacking the mullahs. Check.
Long whispered among my longtime “Never Trump” brethren of a religious bent is the idea that Trump is the Antichrist. I’ve never given that much stock, but now Trump uses man’s potentially most devastating creation, artificial intelligence — a simulacrum of thinking that God gave Adam first — to portray himself as Jesus. That blasphemy is some Antichrist level stuff, for sure.
Antichrist or not, Trump’s sickening anti-Christian portrayal of himself as Lord and Savior may finally be enough to shake religious conservatives out of the stupor that has led them to go along with the president for so long. The backlash is already starting, reports The Washington Post.
You want to know why Donald Trump can never hold a candle to Jesus? Jesus would forgive Trump for all of this and more, if he’d just repent.
Our president doesn’t forgive anyone. More than anything, Trump and America need the real Jesus.
David Mastio is a columnist for The Kansas City Star and McClatchy.
This story was originally published April 13, 2026 at 9:40 AM.
