{"id":82196,"date":"2026-04-17T10:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82196"},"modified":"2026-04-17T10:08:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:08:53","slug":"graham-calls-flap-over-trump-image-much-ado-about-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/graham-calls-flap-over-trump-image-much-ado-about-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham Calls Flap Over Trump Image &#8216;Much Ado About Nothing&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the Christian Post:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Evangelist and Samaritan&#8217;s Purse CEO Franklin Graham issued a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Franklin_Graham\/status\/2044755815530197228\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a>\u00a0Thursday morning dismissing the backlash to President Donald Trump&#8217;s since-deleted social media post depicting him as a robed, Christ-like figure with light emanating from his hands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do not believe President Trump would knowingly depict himself as Jesus Christ \u2014 that would certainly be inappropriate,&#8221; Graham said.\u00a0&#8220;I&#8217;m thankful the President has made it very clear that this was not at all what he thought the AI-generated image was representing \u2014 he thought it was a doctor helping someone, and when he learned of the concerns, he immediately removed the post.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I had received some questions about President <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a>&#8216;s recent posts, and here are my thoughts:<\/p>\n<p>I do not believe President Trump would knowingly depict himself as Jesus Christ\u2014that would certainly be inappropriate. I\u2019m thankful the President has made it very clear that\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Franklin Graham (@Franklin_Graham) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Franklin_Graham\/status\/2044755815530197228?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1776420307\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Graham Calls Flap Over Trump Image &#8216;Much Ado About Nothing&#8217;\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Christian Post: Evangelist and Samaritan&#8217;s Purse CEO Franklin Graham issued a\u00a0statement\u00a0Thursday morning dismissing the backlash to President Donald.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82198,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82196\/revisions\/82198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}