Cruz fumed in an X repost responding to an essay from Tucker Carlson Network, the place it defended Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian for condemning the picture as a “desecration of Jesus, the prophet of peace and brotherhood.”
Carlson Network’s publication learn, “The people in charge don’t want you to know this, but Muslims love Jesus.” Then it added that “Islam reveres” Christ “as a major prophet and messenger of the Lord.”
The publication then claimed that Muslims consider Jesus “performed miracles, and states that He will return to Earth to defeat the Antichrist,” seemingly which means Pezeshkian apparently noticed Trump’s AI picture as an “attack on his religion as well as Christianity.”
The furor over the president’s publish comes whereas Trump has been attacking Pope Leo XIV for criticizing the U.S.-Israel battle in opposition to Iran.
Trump posted after which deleted the AI Jesus picture this previous Sunday, however later defended himself by saying he thought the computer-generated illustration confirmed him as a “doctor.”
Carlson, who aggressively lobbied for Trump throughout his 2024 bid to reclaim the Oval Office, beforehand upbraided the president for an specific Easter Sunday publish the place he threatened to bombard Iran if it didn’t heed his calls for to open the Strait of Hormuz.
“Who do you think you are? You’re tweeting out the f-word on Easter morning,” Carlson wrote on the time, additionally claiming that “no decent person mocks other people’s religions.”
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