Donald Trump’s Truth Social post featuring an AI image of himself as Jesus continues to circulate online, with vice president JD Vance attempting to dismiss it as a “joke.”
“He had to come out yesterday to defend President Trump from all the woke Christians who are trying to cancel him just because he might have said, ‘I am Jesus’,” joked The Daily Show’s Ronny Chieng during Tuesday night’s show. “Get over it, snowflakes. Where in the Trump Bible does it say you can’t worship false idols?”
Vance told Fox News regarding Trump’s now-deleted post, “I think the president was posting a joke and, of course, he took it down because he recognised that a lot of people weren’t understanding his humour” — which Chieng jokingly criticized the Daily Show audience for.
“Shut up! Shut up. It was a joke. What’s the matter, you guys don’t have jokes at Jesus Camp? Everyone knows Trump posted this picture to be funny, right?” Chieng said, cutting to footage of Trump himself telling reporters he thought “it was me as a doctor” with no mention of it being a joke.
“OK, well, make up your mind,” said Chieng. “Is it a doctor or is it a joke, or is it a doctor who is a joke, like a chiropractor?”