Poll finds Trump’s own voters reject his Jesus image
A Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos survey shows 80% of Trump’s 2024 voters and 79% of Republicans reacted negatively to the president’s social media post depicting himself as Jesus. Overall, 87% of Americans disapproved.
A new poll published on Wednesday reveals that even a large majority of US President Donald Trump’s own supporters took issue with his recent social media image portraying him as Jesus Christ.
Widespread disapproval across party lines
The Washington Post–ABC News–Ipsos survey found that 80% of those who voted for Trump in 2024 and 79% of Republicans expressed a negative reaction to the post. Among all Americans, 87% said they viewed the image unfavorably. The poll also indicated that 69% of Americans reacted negatively to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s prayer at the Pentagon, in which he invoked “violence of action.”
Image removed after backlash
Last month, Trump shared on his Truth Social platform a digitally created image showing him dressed in white and red robes, with one hand on a sick man’s forehead while light appeared to radiate from the other hand. Critics online quickly labeled the post as “blasphemous,” and the image was removed from his account the following morning. Türkiye’s religiously conservative readership broadly views the use of prophetic and divine imagery in political contexts as highly inappropriate, a sentiment reflected in international reactions to the incident.
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