For years, MAGA argued that, despite all evidence to the contrary, Donald Trump was a secret genius. All that dumb stuff he does and says? Merely a smokescreen to conceal the 4D chess player behind the scenes, chuckling to himself as the world falls for his cunning strategies.
Those voices have substantially quietened down of late after Trump’s visibly slackening grip on reality has become impossible to ignore. Perhaps the simplest explanation is the most accurate: Donald Trump is a deeply stupid person.
Yet more proof of that may have arrived yesterday amidst the drama of Trump blasphemously posting an image of himself as Jesus Christ. For once, this actually had consequences as straight-up insulting Christ is kind of a big deal to his evangelical support base and resulted in rebukes from even his closest allies.
Trump deleted the image and made the bizarre claim that he wasn’t being depicted as Christ, but that “it’s supposed to be me as a doctor“. His claim was met with general bafflement, but we may now have an explanation of why he made it.
Karoline Leavitt’s justification for the post was that: “President Trump’s Truth Social post depicting him as Jesus was a doctored image.”
Karoline Leavitt: “President Trump’s Truth Social post depicting him as Jesus was a doctored image.”
— Captain Obvious(@TheFungi669) April 14, 2026
The (very plausible) theory is that this was the official line cooked up in the White House and was explained to Trump, only for him to misunderstand, get confused, and get mixed up between a “doctored” image and an image of him “as a doctor”.
oh my god. was trump told to tell the press that the image was "doctored," but misunderstood and told everyone that he was depicted as a "doctor"? https://t.co/IHr3y5myha
— manny (@mannyfidel) April 14, 2026
Bottomless inanity
Need I remind you that Trump still apparently believes that refugees seeking asylum in the United States are people from literal insane asylums? He has also repeatedly indicated that he believes stealth jets are literally invisible to the naked eye. These are just two of an uncountable number of powerfully moronic public comments Trump has made.
He mentions Credit Cards given out to immigrants and I honestly believe he’s conflating travel VISAs with @Visa
— James Morrison Steward steward.bsky.social (@James_Steward) April 14, 2026
Alternatively, it could be the case that Leavitt is playing damage control on Trump’s “doctor” comment. To be fair, the image does show Trump tending to a patient, so perhaps his arguing he’s being shown as a doctor really did spring from his rat’s nest of a mind.
As such, Leavitt could simply be trying to muddy the waters, particularly as the AI image obviously isn’t “doctored” in the traditional sense (and even if it was, Trump still posted it!).
As always, the truth is extremely obvious. Trump’s out-of-control ego popped off at the sight of him as a divine messiah, and he wanted to share it with the world. No more thought was put into it than that, and as Trump obviously does not believe in God, he was completely oblivious as to why it would be a grave insult to Christians.
Any frantic justification by MAGA evangelicals is damage control – a way to justify their support for a president who openly and carelessly insults Christ and his teachings.
