WASHINGTON — Comedian Jon Stewart was flabergasted Monday evening after spotting the uncanny resemblance between him and the sickly man in a wild meme President Trump posted late Sunday depicting himself as Jesus Christ.
“Oh my God,” Stewart gasped after struggling for words in a “Daily Show” segment. “What the guy in the bed, can I just—”
Trump has since deleted the artificial intelligence-powered image of a Christ-like version of him healing a frail old man that had drawn cries of blasphemy from some corners of the religious right.
After sizing up the sickly man, Stewart jokingly pondered, “Am I okay?”
“What the f—,” he further fretted. “I mean, look, I know I don’t have the vigor and spunk of my MTV days. But I didn’t know we were here already. I didn’t realize my look had reached leper territory.”
“I mean, from the picture, it looks like it was touch and go for a while. Thank God, in my time of need, I was surrounded by family,” the atheist added. “This is freaking me the f— out…I’m just glad that Jesus-Trump brought his healing orb.”
While accepting DoorDash grandma-delivered McDonald’s at the White House on Monday, Trump, 79, claimed that he posted the image because he “thought it was me as a doctor and it had to do with the Red Cross.”
The image showed Trump in white robes with a red sash surrounded by an American flag, bald eagles, and fighter jets. There was also a winged creature with horns in the background sky.
“I like how there’s only so much AI can do. Like AI is like, ‘I can give you the fireworks and the healing powers, and I can make you Jesus, but you weigh what you weigh,’” Stewart chided. “You’re gonna have to be fat Jesus.”
The posting came on the heels of Trump’s broadsides against Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, for being “soft on crime” and weak on foreign policy — something Stewart noted before grappling with the resemblance between himself and the sickly man in them.
“Trump’s comments about the pope upset a lot of people of the Christian faith. But please don’t worry, it gets worse,” the liberal comedian said, before getting to the Jesus image.
The president has stood by his criticism of the first American pope, refusing to apologize.
“Pope Leo said things that are wrong,” Trump said. “You can not have a nuclear Iran. Pope Leo would not be happy with the end result.”
