Riley Gaines involves Trump’s protection after he rips her criticism of AI-generated Jesus put up | EUROtoday

MAGA influencer Riley Gaines has defended President Donald Trump regardless of his attacking her amid the controversy surrounding the AI meme he posted of himself as Jesus Christ.

“I love the president and I’m so grateful he’s in the Oval Office. Of course, I’ll continue to support him and the America First agenda,” the host of The Riley Gaines Show podcast wrote on social media Monday night. “At the end of the day, I do nothing for the approval of man. Our purpose on this earth is to glorify Him in all we do. The Truth Social post missed the mark. It’s now deleted. Amazing!”

She continued: “We’re imperfect people. I know I am. I don’t get my feelings hurt easy and I know with the president it’s really not personal. I want to spend eternity in a real place called Heaven. I’d love for Trump to be there too.”

Her put up got here after the president’ dismissed her criticisms throughout a White House occasion hour earlier saying: “I didn’t listen to Riley Gaines. I’m not a big fan of Riley, actually.”

Trump and Gaines have been at a number of occasions collectively through the years as she is a critic of transgender ladies in sports activities. Trump known as her a “tremendous athlete” at a 2025 signing of an government order towards transgender athletes. He added: “She really has been in the forefront. People that aren’t that well-versed in this would say that she was the leader. And great job, Riley. Thank you very much. Appreciate it.”

Trump set off a firestorm along with his Monday morning put up, the place he seems in an AI-generated picture as a Jesus-like determine. The president subsequently took down within the face of a rising backlash and accusations of blasphemy, claiming he had meant it as a imaginative and prescient of himself as a physician therapeutic the sick, not posing because the Messiah.

“Why? Seriously, I cannot understand why he’d post this,” Gaines wrote on X Monday, initially being outspoken over the meme.

“Is he looking for a response? Does he actually think this? Either way, two things are true. 1) a little humility would serve him well 2) God shall not be mocked.”

Trump subsequently gave a cellphone interview to CBS News correspondent Norah O’Donnell, the place he downplayed Gaines’ feedback.

“Normally I don’t like doing that, but I didn’t want to have anybody be confused. People were confused,” Trump contended.

Trump’s shock assault on Gaines was his newest try and rebuke MAGA critics of his choices as commander-in-chief, final week issuing a prolonged put up on his platform by which he took Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens and Alex Jones to job over their objections to the Iran conflict, calling them “losers.”

The uproar over Trump’s newest meme adopted his attacking Pope Leo XIV, whom he known as “WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy,” an astonishing assault on the pinnacle of the Catholic Church that risked offending an enormous phase of his base, every week on from issuing a foul-mouthed menace towards Tehran on Easter Sunday.

While the Pope himself brushed apart the insult, the president’s newest feud with a distinguished world determine made life awkward for his deputy, Vice President JD Vance, an enthusiastic convert to Catholicism who has a brand new guide out in June about his path again to religion.

Vance assured Fox host Bret Baier on Monday that Trump’s put up had been “a joke.”

“And, of course, he took it down because he recognized that a lot of people weren’t understanding his humor in that case,” the VP mentioned. “I think the president of the United States likes to mix it up on social media.”​

He additionally suggested the Vatican to “stick to matters of morality… and let the president of the United States stick to dictating American public policy.”