Just two days after his last public controversy, U.S. President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image depicting Jesus Christ embracing him. “The Radical Left Lunatics might not like this, but I think it is quite nice!!!” Trump wrote in the post, which sparked immediate backlash — not just from critics but from his own supporters, leading him to eventually delete it.
The image landed amid an escalating and unusually public feud between Trump and Pope Leo, the recently installed pontiff. According to Der Spiegel, while the two may seem like unlikely adversaries, the friction reflects a long and complicated history between Washington and the Vatican. Trump has been openly critical of the new Pope, adding a religious dimension to an already combustible political landscape.
The tension extends to Cuba as well. As the 65th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion approaches, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov assured Cuba of continued Russian support — including increased oil deliveries — while Trump ominously declared, “Maybe we’ll stop by,” a statement Der Spiegel described as a “military fantasy.”
