No one expressed it better than Stephen Colbert: “Yesterday might have been the weirdest weird that ever weirded.”
Indeed, we’re referring to the incident where the President of the United States, Donald Trump, addressed reporters at the White House regarding the U.S.-Iran conflict and his Truth Social post featuring an AI image of himself as Jesus. This all happened after he ordered McDonald’s via DoorDash and criticized the Pope online.
“If you just woke up from a coma and that report was the first thing you saw, you’d ask the doctor to put you back in. I’m sorry, you’d ask the Jesus to put you back in,” Colbert quipped, alluding to Trump’s reversal on the now-removed image of himself as Jesus, which the president claimed he perceived as himself as a doctor.
“This recreational blasphemy got Trump so much heat that he pulled the post down from social media, and now people can only see it everywhere on the internet,” said Colbert.
“Here’s how offensive Trump’s AI Jesus post was: The Knights Templar said they condemn it wholeheartedly and asked for a public apology. The Knights Templar. He’s angered the Knights Templar,” Colbert remarked. “Well, it’s official: we’re trapped in a Dan Brown movie. Quick! Somebody find Tom Hanks and give him a terrible haircut.”
Colbert also highlighted how Trump’s online feud with Pope Leo XIV might be imprudent if he’s concerned about approval ratings.
“Why would you start a beef with the Pope? According to a recent NBC poll, Pope Leo leads everyone in America in approval ratings. It’s got to irritate Trump to learn that the most popular guy on the planet lives in a palace dripping with gold and wears an insane hat and it’s not him,” noted Colbert. “Fun fact: Do you know what American finished second in that NBC poll? It gives me no pleasure to say ‘Colbert trailed only Pope Leo in favorability.’ Forgive me, I lied. Actually found that quite pleasurable.”