Jack White has a question for the millions of evangelical Christians who voted for Donald Trump: “How can any Catholic support him after he attacks the character of their Pope multiple times?” The query came after a truly bizarre 24 hours in which President Trump first posted (and then later deleted) an AI-created image of himself as Jesus Christ in flowing white and red robes putting his glowing hands on a man on his deathbed while surrounded by nurses and floating soldiers in front of an American flag.
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Joining a loud chorus of critics who decried the image as blasphemy, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer posted a lengthy message on Instagram in which he took Trump’s religious base to task for continuing to unquestioningly support the president.
“Hey evangelical Christians? Remember that anti-Christ you been squawking about all these years and how he’d present himself as Christlike and bring about the end of days with a final war in the Middle East involving Jerusalem?,” White wrote alongside a re-post of the image. “Well…check out your boy now! Listen, if the felonies, epstein files, rapes, bombing of schoolchildren, gestapo ICE agents attacking his own citizens, threatening to invade Greenland, Cuba, Venezuela and Iran all didn’t convince you that you fell for this deranged grifter, maybe this lil’ post will?”
According to the Public Religion Research Institute, White evangelical Protestants supported Trump by an 81-17 margin over Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, along with Hispanic Protestants (63-35) and White Catholics (60-37).
What White — a former altar boy who grew up in a strict Catholic house in Detroit and once considered attending seminary — wanted to know was how any Christians can continue to back Trump after the president’s latest affront to the religion, especially after Trump doubled-down by attacking Pope Leo XIV again.
“How could any Catholic support him after he attacks the character of their Pope multiple times?,” White asked. “How did so many millions of people fall for this conman? He’s already got worst President in the history of America on lock, but I’m gonna go ahead and take the honor of pronouncing trump ‘Worst American of All Time.’”
White was referring to a long missive Trump posted on his social media site, which first suggested that Leo was elected Pope because “they thought that would be the best way to deal with President Donald J. Trump,” and that “if I wasn’t in the White House, Leo wouldn’t be in the Vatican.” He then assailed Leo for being “weak on crime” and “terrible for foreign policy,” while accusing Leo, who he dubbed a “loser,” of “catering to the radical Left.”
The unprecedented attack on a sitting Pope by a U.S. president comes less than two weeks after Trump posted an expletive-filled rant on Easter Sunday morning threatening Iran, writing, “Open the F–kin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, ore you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH,” before offending Muslims by adding a seemingly sarcastic “Praise be to Allah.”
The Pope, the first American elected to lead the world’s more than 1.4 billion Catholics, responded to Trump’s criticism on Monday (April 13), telling reporters that he has “no fear of the Trump administration, nor speaking out loudly about the message of the Gospel.” Asked on Monday if he feels he should apologize to the Pope, Trump said “no … because Pope Leo said things that are wrong. He was very much against what I’m doing with regard to Iran,” in reference to the war Trump started against Iran more than a month ago that has sent economic jitters across the globe and sparked fears of a wider Middle East conflict.
In a rare move, the White House took the Trump as Jesus post down, but the president didn’t apologize and, in fact, claimed that he was the one who posted the image, which he thought depicted him as “a doctor that had to do with the Red Cross.”
White, a frequent critic of Trump, wasn’t buying any of it, ending his post with a lament about the Catholics who continue to support the president. “P.S.: after some backlash (looks like SOME christians actually take their own religion seriously) trump is now saying that this AI image depicts him as a doctor for the Red Cross!,” White wrote. “He lies, then lies about the lie, then doubles down on that lie with another lie and they Just. Keep. Falling. For. It.”
