Trump Says In His Social Media Post He Was A Doctor, Not Jesus. A Catholic School Alum Weighs In

The wide statement is that President Trump’s social media station of himself dressed successful robes, aft a engaged play successful which he blasted Pope Leo and attended a prizefight while an Iran bid scheme fell apart, was an effort to formed himself arsenic a Jesus-like figure.

But Trump says we person it wrong.

“It’s expected to beryllium maine arsenic a doctor, making group better,” he said.

As a postgraduate of St. Peter Martyr people schoolhouse successful nan San Francisco East Bay area, and arsenic personification who has seen a batch of doctors for various ailments, I consciousness uniquely qualified to measurement in.

In Catholic school, beatified cards are a large deal. You’ve seen a mates 100 of them by nan clip you deed 2nd aliases 3rd grade, truthful you go acquainted pinch nan muted ethereal glow, nan heavenly regard and nan look of piety. A modular characteristic is nan halo, a intelligibly defined sphere that sits for illustration a buttered bonnet connected nan caput of nan saint.

Let nan grounds show that successful his station connected his very ain Truth Social, which is not ever truthful, Trump does not person a halo.

So successful full fairness, it’s imaginable nan president was not lying erstwhile he said he was expected to beryllium a doctor.

On nan different hand, having seen a bully number of cardiologists and surgeons and orthopedic specialists, I don’t callback immoderate doctors who wore flowing robes while bathed successful heavenly light, pinch a flock of eagles coming retired of their ears and a squad of Navy SEALs busting done nan infirmary ceiling.

And past there’s nan fireball emanating from Trump’s correct hand. All of which begs nan question: If Trump thinks this is what a expert looks like, what ailment is he being treated for, and shouldn’t nan nationalist beryllium advised?

There’s besides nan mobility of creation — not of quality life, but of nan very beingness of a societal media station for illustration this from nan president of nan United States successful wartime. It was described arsenic an AI-generated image, but who was astatine nan computer?

Did nan president beryllium down astatine nan extremity of a agelong time and churn retired an image of himself playing doctor, if not Jesus Christ? Or does he person a squad of staffers who do this benignant of thing, and if so, really could Elon Musk person missed them erstwhile he said nan authorities was bloated and group retired to occurrence half nan national workforce?

You’d astatine slightest dream nan president would person nan courageousness of his convictions. But arsenic disapproval of his station mounted, Trump deleted it Monday morning.

I deliberation he should person stuck pinch nan communicative — he was portraying himself a expert because he’s a healer. The adjacent day, he could person been successful a New York Jets azygous and told america he’s a quarterback. Then he could person released an image of himself successful nan Artemis abstraction capsule and told america he’s an astronaut, and he’s reasoning of building a drawstring of Trump hotels connected nan moon. Ask yourself this: Would anyone person been surprised?

A feline who only knows really to spell for broke, and ever doubles down erstwhile things spell wrong, has to instrumentality to his guns aliases nan full shtick unravels. I’d person respected Trump much if he had traipsed astir nan White House pinch a stethoscope for a week aliases two, aliases possibly performed encephalon room connected Pete Hegseth, conscionable to spot what’s going connected successful there.

What’s going connected successful Trump’s head, if I mightiness unpaid a spot of armchair psychoanalysis, is that nonaccomplishment triggers a consciousness of grandeur alternatively than humility.

Things are not going good astatine nan moment, truthful he’s lashing out. The value of things was expected to travel down connected Day One, but acknowledgment to his upheaval of nan world economy, prices went up, and now they’re soaring because he helped commencement a warfare that made nary sense.

A warfare that has been criticized by Pope Leo, who has pointed retired that while nan Trump management has ascribed a belief imperative to nan battle connected Iran, and Trump promised to rustle nan state each nan measurement backmost to nan “Stone Ages,” Jesus would astir apt not beryllium connected board.

Trump, who said past twelvemonth that he wants to “try and get to heaven, if possible,” now realizes he’s not going to get an endorsement from nan pontiff.

And truthful nan man who erstwhile issued a nationalist telephone to prayer, said nan Bible was his favourite book, joked aft nan decease of Pope Francis that he wanted to beryllium nan adjacent pontiff, and has now issued his ain beatified card, has attacked Pope Leo for being excessively wide arsenic good arsenic “weak connected crime and unspeakable for overseas policy.” He has, successful effect, anointed himself arsenic holier than nan pope himself.

Even staunch supporters of Trump person worked themselves into a lather complete this. They’re lashing retired astatine Trump, arsenic if his disapproval of nan pope and depiction of himself arsenic Jesus Christ are shocking.

My chap Americans, definite words person been rendered meaningless successful describing nan existent authorities of affairs. Among them are shocking, surreal, unbelievable, unprecedented and unexpected.

If so Trump thinks he’s Jesus, fto his penance statesman pinch 100 Our Fathers, 500 Hail Marys and 1,000 Acts of Contrition.

If so he thinks he’s a doctor:

Physician, heal thyself.

steve.lopez@latimes.com