President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself dressed as the pope. The post has since received criticism from some members of the Catholic community.

The post also showed how much more secular Americans have become since John F. Kennedy, the nation’s first Catholic president, ran in 1960.

US President Donald Trump posted an AI image of himself as the pope, prompting accusations of poor taste in the Roman Catholic community just days before the conclave to elect Pope Francis’s successor is due to begin.

Pope Leo XIV has a history sharing criticisms of Trump and Vance on social media, raising questions about his future relationship with Trump.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy plans to attend the inaugural Mass of newly elected Pope Leo at the Vatican on Sunday, war commitments permitting, a top presidential aide told Reuters on Tuesday.

An AI-generated image of U.S. President Donald Trump dressed as the pope “was not good,” Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York said in Rome. “I hope he didn’t have anything to do with that,” he told reporters before he entered Our Lady of Guadalupe Church where he celebrated Mass May 4.

Pope Leo XIV emerges at Vatican, becomes first American pope I build PCs for a living – here are the 6 worst things you’re doing to your PC (and how to fix them) Trump urged Speaker Johnson to raise top tax rate, source says Scarlett Johansson: It Would Have Been ‘Easier' to Finance a ‘Subpar' Genre Film Than Indie ‘Eleanor the Great'

A photo released on Thursday (May 8) appears to show singer and former One Directioner Harry Styles on a Rome street, a few hundred metres away from St Peter's Square, on the day of the new pope announcement.