Trump as a Pope shown in the photo of AI-generated photo

Trump visited Pope Francis in Rome last weekend, where he also met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

On Tuesday, day after his return from Francis' funeral, Trump joked reporters outside the White House that he “would like to be a Pope” and added: “That would be my number.”

He followed that he has “no preference” who is ultimately selected.

The Vice President JD Vance, who converted to Catholicism in 2019, met the Roman Catholic Pope one day before his death.

Francis died of a stroke, which ultimately led to irreversible heart failure, as can be seen from an death certificate issued by the Vatican.

The contribution of the AI-generated picture triggered a widespread reaction to social media, with some users condemning the image, while others defended it as a wit.

The former chairman of the Republican National Committee, Michael Steele, a pronounced Trump critic, criticized the post and said: “Confirmed how unintellia and incapable [Trump] Is.”

It is not the first time that the White House shared an AI-generated picture of Trump.

In February, the deputy chief of staff of the White House, Taylor Budowich, recorded an AI gener picture from Trump, which was depicted as king, after the administration had moved to remove the New York backlog.

Trump described himself as the king in a social truth that “congestion prices are dead”.

“Manhattan and all of New York are saved. The king lives,” Trump wrote in February about the social affairs of truth.