Donald Trump is seen being thrown into hell by Jesus Christ in a shocking AI video released by Iran just days after the US president likened himself to the messiah
Iran has mocked Donald Trump’s recent self-comparisons to Jesus Christ with a video showing him being thrown into hell.
The bizarre propaganda clip from Tehran comes amid Trump’s escalating feud with Pope Leo, after the US President posted an AI-generated image portraying himself as Jesus.
In the now-deleted image shared by Trump on Truth Social on Monday, he is seen healing a man while wearing a white robe and surrounded by light, in the style of a religious painting. But in Iran’s new video, the scene is taken one step further, with Jesus himself descending from heaven to throw Trump into hell.
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The faces of Trump’s adoring crowd turn from admiration to shocked disbelief as the messiah delivers a single blow to the US president’s head, leaving him bloodied as the ground opens up beneath him and he falls into a fiery pit.
Trump has not responded to the video, but did try to offer an explanation for the original post the other day – claiming he thought the image showed him as a doctor, and not a religious figure.
He said: “It’s supposed to be as a doctor making people better. And I do make people better. I make people a lot better.”
Trump later told US media that he deleted it because “people were confused”.
Meanwhile, Trump is locked in a bitter war of words with Pope Leo after labelling the US-born pontiff “weak on crime”.
Earlier this week, he demanded the religious leader “focus on being a Great Pope, not a politician”, telling reporters he did not think the head of the Roman Catholic Church was “doing a very good job”.
The clash between the two men came after an Easter message earlier this month in which the Pope strongly criticised war, calling on “those who have weapons” to “lay them down” – comments he interpreted as criticism of his attacks against Iran.
A social media post on April 10 said the church “is never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs.”
Since then, the Pope has said he will continue to “stand up and say there’s a better way” and that he is “not afraid of the Trump administration”, although he also said he did not intend to “get into a debate” with the White House.
Vice President JD Vance, a practising Catholic, told the Pope to “be careful” when talking about “matters of theology”, arguing that there was “more than a 1,000-year tradition of just war theory” which could be used to give reason to conflicts.
