That would be my number one choice,” he said at the time. The image shows Trump dressed in a white garment wearing a pope’s hat and a necklace with a cross hanging around his neck. He is sitting in a chair with his index finger pointed upwards.

President Donald Trump is insisting that people offended by an image he shared on social media portraying himself as the pope “can’t take a joke.”

The White House on Saturday posted an AI-generated image of US President Donald Trump shows as the leader of the Catholic Church. Trup had jokingly said a few days earlier that he would "like to be pope",