Daily Wire host: Trump post that appears to depict the president as Jesus is “sacrilegious”
Michael Knowles: “It's just a sacrilegious post. To put oneself in the position of Christ is just sacrilegious.”
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From the April 13, 2026, edition of The Daily Wire's The Michael Knowles Show
MICHAEL KNOWLES (HOST): The president posts this picture of — it's a meme. It's like an art meme of him, it appears to be as Jesus holding what might — divine light, whether that's the blessed sacrament or whether that's just a divine light in clothing that is typical of Christ in artistic depictions, putting his hand on an ailing man, healing him with these angels or demons or celestial beings coming out of the clouds with the American flag. And it's it's obviously kinda trolly. It's Trump — what I think Trump is trying to say here is, look, I'm healing the country. I'm really great for the country. And I think even further, he's trying to say, I've been really good for Christians. You know? Joe Biden locked up Christians, locked up pro-life Catholic grannies, and I pardoned them, and I let them out. And I overruled Roe v Wade, and I — you know, I've been good for religious liberty. I'm good. You know, what's the matter with you Christians? What more do you want from me? I think that's what he's trying to say.
But the post is sacrilegious. It just is. It's just inescapable. It's just a sacrilegious post. To put oneself in the position of Christ is just sacrilegious.
It just — I don't think that was the intention exactly. I don't think this was thought out for all that long. I think it was a meme. And so I would say with all the grace that we can give and all the charity with which we can speak, it is a fact that in an irreverent age, sometimes people don't know what taboos are legit and what taboos are nonsense. What taboos are woke, shibboleths that should be made fun of. In that irreverent age, we just — you know, sometimes comedians, they tell a joke that's a little out of line. And I would say in this case, for both spiritual reasons and political reasons, I'm sure someone's already told the president this, but if not, the post should come down. Simple as — I think — I could go further and say, I think it would benefit the president, spiritually and politically, to just take it down. It's OK. And we can remember that he's been very good at promoting Christian causes against the godless left that wants to destroy the Church. But sometimes people make mistakes. Even a guy who's right 99.7% of the time politically, sometimes people make mistakes. I think it should probably — definitely come down.