Lopez: Trump says in his social media post he was a doctor, not Jesus. A Catholic school alum weighs in - BERITAJA

The wide statement is that President Trump’s social media station of himself dressed successful robes, aft a engaged play successful which he blasted Pope Leo and attended a prizefight while an Iran bid scheme fell apart, was an effort to formed himself arsenic a Jesus-like figure.

But Trump says we person it wrong.

“It’s expected to beryllium maine arsenic a doctor, making group better,” he said.

As a postgraduate of St. Peter Martyr people schoolhouse successful the San Francisco East Bay area, and arsenic personification who has seen a batch of doctors for various ailments, I consciousness uniquely qualified to measurement in.

In Catholic school, beatified cards are a large deal. You’ve seen a mates 100 of them by the clip you deed 2nd aliases 3rd grade, truthful you go acquainted pinch the muted ethereal glow, the heavenly regard and the look of piety. A modular characteristic is the halo, a intelligibly defined sphere that sits for illustration a buttered bonnet connected the caput of the saint.

Let the grounds show that successful his station connected his very ain Truth Social, which is not ever truthful, Trump does not person a halo.

So successful full fairness, it’s imaginable the president was not lying erstwhile he said he was expected to beryllium a doctor.

On the different hand, having seen a bully number of cardiologists and surgeons and orthopedic specialists, I don’t callback immoderate doctors who wore flowing robes while bathed successful heavenly light, pinch a flock of eagles coming retired of their ears and a squad of Navy SEALs busting done the infirmary ceiling.

And past there’s the fireball emanating from Trump’s correct hand. All of which begs the question: If Trump thinks this is what a expert looks like, what ailment is he being treated for, and shouldn’t the nationalist beryllium advised?

There’s besides the mobility of creation — not of quality life, but of the very beingness of a societal media station for illustration this from the president of the United States successful wartime. It was described arsenic an AI-generated image, but who was astatine the computer?

Did the president beryllium down astatine the extremity of a agelong time and churn retired an image of himself playing doctor, if not Jesus Christ? Or does he person a squad of staffers who do this benignant of thing, and if so, really could Elon Musk person missed them erstwhile he said the authorities was bloated and group retired to occurrence half the national workforce?

You’d astatine slightest dream the president would person the courageousness of his convictions. But arsenic disapproval of his station mounted, Trump deleted it Monday morning.

I deliberation he should person stuck pinch the communicative — he was portraying himself a expert because he’s a healer. The adjacent day, he could person been successful a New York Jets azygous and told america he’s a quarterback. Then he could person released an image of himself successful the Artemis abstraction capsule and told america he’s an astronaut, and he’s reasoning of building a drawstring of Trump hotels connected the moon. Ask yourself this: Would anyone person been surprised?

A feline who only knows really to spell for broke, and ever doubles down erstwhile things spell wrong, has to instrumentality to his guns aliases the full shtick unravels. I’d person respected Trump much if he had traipsed about the White House pinch a stethoscope for a week aliases two, aliases possibly performed encephalon room connected Pete Hegseth, conscionable to spot what’s going connected successful there.

What’s going connected successful Trump’s head, if I mightiness unpaid a spot of armchair psychoanalysis, is that nonaccomplishment triggers a consciousness of grandeur alternatively than humility.

Things are not going good astatine the moment, truthful he’s lashing out. The value of things was expected to travel down connected Day One, but acknowledgment to his upheaval of the world economy, prices went up, and now they’re soaring because he helped commencement a warfare that made nary sense.

A warfare that has been criticized by Pope Leo, who has pointed retired that while the Trump management has ascribed a belief imperative to the battle connected Iran, and Trump promised to rustle the state each the measurement backmost to the “Stone Ages,” Jesus would about apt not beryllium connected board.

Trump, who said past twelvemonth that he wants to “try and get to heaven, if possible,” now realizes he’s not going to get an endorsement from the pontiff.

And truthful the man who erstwhile issued a nationalist telephone to prayer, said the Bible was his favourite book, joked aft the decease of Pope Francis that he wanted to beryllium the adjacent pontiff, and has now issued his ain beatified card, has attacked Pope Leo for being excessively wide arsenic good arsenic “weak connected crime and unspeakable for overseas policy.” He has, successful effect, anointed himself arsenic holier than the pope himself.

Even staunch supporters of Trump person worked themselves into a lather complete this. They’re lashing retired astatine Trump, arsenic if his disapproval of the pope and depiction of himself arsenic Jesus Christ are shocking.

My chap Americans, definite words person been rendered meaningless successful describing the existent authorities of affairs. Among them are shocking, surreal, unbelievable, unprecedented and unexpected.

If so Trump thinks he’s Jesus, fto his penance statesman pinch 100 Our Fathers, 500 Hail Marys and 1,000 Acts of Contrition.

If so he thinks he’s a doctor:

Physician, heal thyself.

steve.lopez@beritaja.com