President Donald Trump claimed Monday that a religion-themed image he posted and later deleted from social media that showed him healing the sick was actually just a representation of him as “a doctor” and not intended to portray him as Jesus Christ.
Trump posted the now-deleted image on Truth Social early Monday morning after he tore into Pope Leo XIV over the pontiff’s criticism of Operation Epic Fury, drawing fire online and on air for the depiction. At an unscheduled Oval Office presser that began with a DoorDash delivery of McDonald’s, Trump was asked about the image and whether it he posted it himself. WATCH:
“It was me,” Trump said. “I did post it and I thought it was me as a doctor and had to do with the Red Cross as a Red Cross worker there which we support, and only the fake news could come up with that one. So I, I just heard about it and I said, how did they come up with that? It’s supposed to be me as a doctor making people better, and I do make people better.”
Trump then asked the delivery driver, Sharon Simmons, about how her husband, who was undergoing treatment for cancer.
“I understand your husband is going through treatment,” Trump told Simmons, who responded, “Yes, sir. Yes, sir.”
“He’s going through some very serious cancer treatment, so this goes a long way,” Trump said.
Trump signed a reconciliation bill July 4, 2025 that made the 2017 tax cuts he enacted permanent, ended taxes on overtime pay and tips and added tax deductions on loads for cars built in the United States.
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