{"id":40584,"date":"2025-05-04T12:07:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T12:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/04\/trump-accused-of-mocking-catholics-after-posting-image-of-himself-as-pope\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T12:07:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T12:07:37","slug":"trump-accused-of-mocking-catholics-after-posting-image-of-himself-as-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/04\/trump-accused-of-mocking-catholics-after-posting-image-of-himself-as-pope\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump accused of \u2018mocking\u2019 Catholics after posting image of himself as pope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president displays \u2018pathological megalomania\u2019 as cardinals gather to elect new pope after death of Francis<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has been accused of mocking the election of a new leader of the Catholic church after posting an artificial intelligence-generated picture of himself as the pope on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The image, shared on Friday night on Trump\u2019s Truth Social site and the White House\u2019s official X account, raised eyebrows at the Vatican, which is still in the period of nine days of official mourning after Pope Francis\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gallery\/2025\/apr\/26\/the-funeral-of-pope-francis-in-pictures\">funeral<\/a> on 26 April.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/may\/04\/trump-accused-of-mocking-catholics-after-posting-image-of-himself-as-pope\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president displays \u2018pathological megalomania\u2019 as cardinals gather to elect new pope after death of Francis Donald Trump has been accused of mocking the election of a new leader of the Catholic church after posting an artificial intelligence-generated picture of himself as the pope on social media. The image, shared on Friday night on Trump\u2019s &#8230; <a title=\"Trump accused of \u2018mocking\u2019 Catholics after posting image of himself as pope\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/04\/trump-accused-of-mocking-catholics-after-posting-image-of-himself-as-pope\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump accused of \u2018mocking\u2019 Catholics after posting image of himself as pope\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}