Newsmax's Greg Kelly on Trump's since-removed Jesus post: “It's not blasphemous. If it were blasphemous, I wouldn't be showing it.”
Kelly: “There happens to be a deified-looking picture of George Washington in the Capitol dome. Everybody seems to be happy with that one. No problem there.”
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From the April 14, 2026, edition of Newsmax's Greg Kelly Reports
GREG KELLY (HOST): Hey, real quick, look, the more I think about the AI thing and I'm not bothered by it, to be honest, I imagine let's put the AI image, you know, that made — by the way, it's not blasphemous. If it were blasphemous, I wouldn't be showing it. I don't know, I mean, everybody saying it's blasphemous, but they show it all over the place. I bet maybe somebody did it in the office. But you'll notice President Trump never blames anybody in the office. And I think that's kind of cool. Hogan Gidley, a conventional politician would blame some 23 year-old and fire him. Or maybe not.
HOGAN GIDLEY (GUEST): No reason to use the word conventional as it relates to this White House at all. Every time a reporter says to me, you know, a normal White House, I say, let me just stop you right there. That's not how this works. Donald Trump actually does the things he said he was going to do on the campaign trail. This whole thing is much ado about nothing. In large part, this image was created by someone else who just basically said, Donald Trump has been here healing the world. Donald Trump sees that and goes, hey, you know what? I do a lot for the American people. I hope I'm making things better. I'm going to post it. And it says so much about his character, too, that when there was backlash, even though unwarranted by a lot of his friends, he said, you know what? No big deal. I'll take it down. We have other things to worry about. This is so insane.
KELLY: Well, you know, there happens to be a deified-looking picture of George Washington in the Capitol Dome. Everybody seems to be happy with that one. No problem there. And, Mark, you know, reporters, they used to put retweets do not mean endorsements, right? That doesn't mean endorsements, Mark. That was — Hogan. That was like a OK, don't take us too seriously. You know, we're just tweeting. We're having fun.