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April 13, 2026
Trump And The Devil

President Donald Trump has for some time been in a public dispute with Pope Leo of the Catholic church.

Within the context of the quarrel Trump posted a picture of himself depicted as saint healer overseen by a devil.

And no – this isn’t a late April’s fool joke …

On February 4 2026, the X/Twitter account NickAdamsinUSA posted this AI slop picture of Trump as a saint healer.


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Yesterday Trump himself posted a similar picture on his Truth Social account. It was reproduced on X/Twitter.


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Some mend_alyn noted a slight difference between both pictures:

mend_alyn @mend_alyn – 4:44 UTC · Apr 13, 2026

> Trump’s Truth Social post added the horned figure (at the top) to an already disgusting picture @NickAdamsinUSA shared in February. <

Indeed. Here is a cut from the top of the picture posted in February:


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And a similar cut from the picture posted two months later by Trump:


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The man in the middle has been transformed into something like a ‘horned’ angel.  He seems to wear a Statue of Liberty look-alike crown.

One wonders who initiated that transformation. When and for what purpose?

Context:

Pope Leo XIV had recently spoken out against the wars waged by President Donald Trump.

On Apr 12 at 21:03 ET President Donald Trump posted a rant against Pope Leo:

Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy. He talks about “fear” of the Trump Administration, but doesn’t mention the FEAR that the Catholic Church, and all other Christian Organizations, had during COVID when they were arresting priests, ministers, and everybody else, for holding Church Services, even when going outside, and being ten and even twenty feet apart. I like his brother Louis much better than I like him, because Louis is all MAGA. He gets it, and Leo doesn’t! I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon. I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s terrible that America attacked Venezuela, a Country that was sending massive amounts of Drugs into the United States and, even worse, emptying their prisons, including murderers, drug dealers, and killers, into our Country. And I don’t want a Pope who criticizes the President of the United States because I’m doing exactly what I was elected, IN A LANDSLIDE, to do, setting Record Low Numbers in Crime, and creating the Greatest Stock Market in History. Leo should be thankful because, as everyone knows, he was a shocking surprise….

Forty-three minutes after his rant Trump posted the above picture which portrays him as a saint with a horned/crowned angel/devil above him.

How will the evangelical followers of Trump interpret this?

Who construed and directed this drama?

Please think about and answer the questions.

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Added after publishing (15:39 UTC):

Trump just deleted his post of the picture.

Also added after publishing (16:09 UTC):

The President of Iran condemned Trump’s insults of the Pope:

Masoud Pezeshkian @drpezeshkian – 13:19 utc · Apr 13, 2026

His Holiness Pope Leo XIV (@Pontifex), I condemn the insult to Your Excellency on behalf of the great nation of Iran, and declare that the desecration of Jesus, the prophet of peace and brotherhood, is not acceptable to any free person. I wish you glory by Allah.

Posted by b on April 13, 2026 at 15:34 UTC | Permalink
Comments

Ahenobarbus | Apr 14 2026 16:18 utc | 712
 
Have been thinking about one of my comments to WG on trump trying to a deal with Russia. It was a long term policy of his and genuine even though it was an attempt to try a separate Russia from China. After his election and prior to inauguration, the Brits formed a gang of Europeans to ensure the war against Russia kept going. Regardless, by the reports coming out of Ukraine, he was very close to shutting the Zelensky gang down and doing a deal with Russia at Christmas 2025. Then the attack on the Russian nuclear command near Moscow which successfully ended any chance of a deal. 
Trump changed a lot from then on. I believe the attack was carried out by the Brits, perhaps with the help of CIA elements that were undermining Trump. The business deals he had wanted to do with Russia were to try and tie Russia’s hands before starting his oil wars, but US also needs Russian tech to access Alaskan oil. US ice breakers are as pitiful as most other crumbling US infrastructure and assets.
 
Like the Brits, The Americans barely have the ability to float a boat now, let alone an icebreaker fleet capable of plowing through thick ice. The Russians are now building a fleet of large nuclear powered icebreakers along with ice capable cargo vessels for the northern sea route.
I had thought Alaska nearly dry of oil now till that Alaskan bloke chip in the other day. What the US is missing is the arctic infrastructure technology required to access it.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 14 2026 16:44 utc | 701

TRT World: Einar Tangen: ‘China’s Trying To Remain Neutral’
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy8bMke6Bls
 
“China’s Rich Starry has become the first vessel to make it through the Strait of Hormuz and exit the Gulf since the UN Navy blockade began on Monday. Einar Tangen, from the International Governance Innovation weighs in.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 14 2026 16:46 utc | 702

The first oddity is that the Figure (DT / Jesus) heals with one hand and is bringing the light with the other. This is weird, the two do not belong together, the icononography of Jesus healing concentrates on two hands, face and eyes and postural attitude of Jesus being ‘there’ for the ‘patient’, as one would expect.
 
[jukebox] Death – Spiritual Healing (1990 full album)
 
Posted for the cover art mostly, but Chuck Schuldiner’s lyrics are sharp commentaries on American life in their own right, ever more so on his later albums, while the sound of this one is remarkably fresh for such a distinctively old school death metal album of that age. 

Posted by: persiflo | Apr 14 2026 16:48 utc | 703

Watcher 700 – If RF is escorting its tankers in the North Atlantic, then that is surely good news indeed.
 
The very idea of the RN and the French Navy seizing RF tankers in international waters is abhorrent, and illegal.

Posted by: tobias cole | Apr 14 2026 16:49 utc | 704

China’s embassy has installed barbed wire around its perimeter in Washington DC.

@Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 14 2026 16:28 utc | 721
 
No wonder, they know for a fact already that anything could be coming fro them from this “people”….”the destroyers of civilizations”….
 
I hope someone is taking note of all this for the anals of the apocalypse….
 

Posted by: Ghost of Mozgovoy | Apr 14 2026 16:50 utc | 705

This conflict has shown many dichotomies. From Russia banned from all sports all the way to ping pong while trumpsy gets some sort of peace award from fifa to the openness with which EU and USA supplied weapons to Ukraine and the shyness or cowardice of China and Russia. Treacherous, unprovoked murder of civilians and BRICS didn’t move a finger. The alleged multipolar world is far being actually born.

Posted by: Mariátegui | Apr 14 2026 16:51 utc | 706

War On Iran: The Stalemate Of Blockading Blockades
 
New thread
 
 

Posted by: Adrina | Apr 14 2026 16:53 utc | 707

Sean Foo: ‘Saudi Fury on US’|’It Has Started’|
 
https://www.youtube.com/@SeanFooGold/videos
 
“Even China rejects Saudi oil as export revenues crash. US blowback is next; Failing US debt auction sends a huge warning to the world – what it means.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 14 2026 16:55 utc | 708

Posted by: Genesis | Apr 14 2026 16:15 utc | 709
 
No they won’t. Israel already hit a port there. They can do it again, Us can do it, anyone can do it. Even “Ukr” hit stuff around that lake too. They’ve also moved to Libya where they have three little bases they use to hit Russian tankers if they come close enough. What if they are given some near Hormuz too and sink a few Chinese ships. What would lil Xi do? Iran can’t stop these attacks but can attack back strong enough to make them stop and they did make them stop for the moment.

Posted by: rk | Apr 14 2026 16:58 utc | 709

@ Ghost of Mozgovoy | Apr 14 2026 16:39 utc | 724
 
i like this term – the ”collective trump”… others have called it ”the epstein class”…. either way, a complete disregard for international law with the result of needless murder and destruction, seems to be the specific intent of whatever you call this – collective trump or epstein class… they don’t give a fuck! it is obvious..  i think it is hard to avoid the ww3 idea and that we have already entered it here…  trump is just one more distraction along the road… 

Posted by: james | Apr 14 2026 17:00 utc | 710

BT News:  Rania Khalek & Jon Elmer (Resistance Report)
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwPMsZ68t2c
 
“Are Israel and the US failing in Lebanon and Iran?”
 

Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 14 2026 17:02 utc | 711

tobias cole | Apr 14 2026 16:49 utc | 728
 
Not long back, a Russian warship escorted two tankers through the English channel. I did read Russia now has the warship permanently staged in the region to escort tankers past the Brits.
 
Mainstream media said both the Brits and Estonians announced it is now too dangerous to attack Russian civilian shipping. I would assume the Russians, along with sending warships as escorts have given the barking poodle of the Baltics and the Brits warnings in no uncertain terms.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 14 2026 17:03 utc | 712

RC: Peter Hager
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN566YeW-iY
 
“Greeks block Israelis from entering their country.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 14 2026 17:08 utc | 713

Centinel | April 14, 2026 at 15:44 UTC | 691But that’s exactly what I’ve been trying to tell you. My hope is that the Chinese break through the blockade.
Exile | April 14, 2026 at 15:22 UTC | 675Thank you, you’re right. I was relying on ZH, but it seems it doesn’t know everything.

Posted by: Hagen | Apr 14 2026 17:10 utc | 714

CFS: Vanessa Beeley
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXuZlVShb3Q
 
“Lebanon’s PM defends Israel’s massacre of his own civilians.”
 
Another ZOG vassal regime requiring overthrow.

Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 14 2026 17:15 utc | 715

 petergrfstrm | Apr 14 2026 15:41 utc | 690—
 
Thanks for your reply. China knew this conflict was coming and began preparations several years ago via its energy and industrial policies. That meant not just building energy reserves but altering the entire economy’s energy usage. The build-out of China’s new energy vehicles is no accident and is aimed at eliminating reliance on fossil fuels for transportation. Logistically, China has overland methods of attaining resources and for sending out its products, which are growing in demand because China again anticipated this conflict and ramped up the production of renewable energy equipment–solar panels, batteries, wind machine components, etc. And then China has the means to keep SLOCs open with its more powerful and modern navy.
 
The key is the Outlaw US Empire is no longer master of the global ocean. Iran and the transit points between it and China are far closer to China than USA, and the USN no longer has any functional base within that very vast region–Diego Garcia isn’t a USN supply and repair port.   

Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 14 2026 17:18 utc | 716

china flags are selling off the shelves these days…  and bonus – they are actually made in china!
Posted by: james | Apr 14 2026 16:27 utc | 720
 
You can buy American flags made in the USA: https://www.showallegiance.com/
 
Not that there is any reason to buy one though. Maybe to hang it upside down?

Posted by: Kuromi | Apr 14 2026 17:19 utc | 717

@ Kuromi | Apr 14 2026 17:19 utc | 741
 
that might be… those maga hats were made in china though, lol.. not sure if trump will be wearing his made in china hat to china, or if he even makes it to china!

Posted by: james | Apr 14 2026 17:23 utc | 718

Posted by: Ghost of Mozgovoy | Apr 14 2026 16:50 utc | 729
 
 
Not looking forward to those ‘anals of the apocalypse’.  Would that be colonoscopies?

Posted by: Melusina | Apr 14 2026 17:24 utc | 719

lol, that’s a good point, james, about the stupid hats.
 
And I seriously doubt he’s going to be received by China at this rate of moronic decline.

Posted by: Kuromi | Apr 14 2026 17:25 utc | 720

The AUKUS scam puts an American naval base at Fremantle. That puts an American base on the Indian Ocean. American subs now dock there and no doubt take on supplies there. They take on an Australian grease monkey or two to make it look like a joint base but otherwise a purely American base.
From what I understand, the main repair/maintenance facility still has to be built at a cost of around eight billion to Australia. As always, on top of that eight billion will be the massive price blowouts. The way things operate here now is the same throughout the west. A factor of about five times announced cost is likely a good rule of thumb.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 14 2026 17:30 utc | 721

That last should have been addressed to karlof1 | Apr 14 2026 17:18 utc | 740

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 14 2026 17:31 utc | 722

https://www.youtube.com/live/iQkiRkzERiU8 F15 ‘s destroyed over Lebanon
Posted by: Monty | Apr 14 2026 13:26 utc | 628
 
The video is AI, therefore suspect.

Posted by: BM | Apr 14 2026 17:51 utc | 723

 
Has anybody offered this interpretation of the second image?
 
The narcissistic Drumpff sees himself as soon-to-be crucified by the Ba’al cult represented by the animal-headed horned satanic figure descending upon him from behind.
 
Drumpff sees himself is a christlike healer of america who is soon to be thrown under the bus.
 
Delusion meeting reality.
 
Distractive diversion.
Don’t talk a out the calamity being wreaked on humanity.
 
 

Posted by: suzan | Apr 14 2026 18:06 utc | 724

New Thread

Posted by: Avtonom | Apr 14 2026 18:24 utc | 725

Peter AU1 | Apr 14 2026 17:30 utc | 745—
 
Thanks for your reply. So, like Diego Garcia, the Aussie base really isn’t one yet and is more a watering hole, fuel and victual replenishment stop with no weapons stogare because there’re no weapons to store. And that last point is crucial.

Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 14 2026 18:33 utc | 726

And that last point is crucial.
karlof1 | Apr 14 2026 18:33 utc | 750
 
My thought too. I’m not sure whats going on in Darwin. A major military base the and although surface ships call in, as far as I know, no naval base.
 
I had thought the American build up in our north had greatly slowed but it is just gone from the media. Bingo who does not comment here often said the American build up of missiles in our north had continued. I assume these are land based intermediate range missiles for direct war with China.
They cannot be found on the censored internet, but massive US bases are spread across our north. My brother who has graded roads right across the Territory knows about them. It is only when near one the locals, white property owners and aboriginals know about and talk about them. I first leaned about them from a Melbourne bloke whos mate won the contract for the security fencing. Each perimeter fence over 100km around. Thousands of kilometers in the perimeter fencing of just the Northern Territory bases. It is the same again in the remote regions of northern West Australia.
 
 

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 14 2026 18:59 utc | 727

“And to explain depopulating as a strategy. It is because Americans are generally despised here now and the US believes the local population will give their positions to enemy China.”

Posted by: Bingo | Apr 14 2026 5:34 utc | 510
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Thank you Bingo for updates about NW Pacific.
Re; Chinese preparation in the rest of the Pacific over the years
 
The Chinese have been in the Pacific for generations. Setting up small to large Commercial entities linked directly through family and “Han” ties. Many in the Solomans, PNG, Bougainville and other island chains. The First immigrant, usually an indented labourer or similar, Married locally to get the passport/nationaity, and then ALL the children were normally supposed to marry someone from mainland China. Family discipline is very strong. I only knew of one “rebel” that didn’t, marrying a very pretty local girl, and he was shunned by the rest of the Community. (Rabaul, ENB)
 
The Chinese have mapped all of the subsurface of the Pacific systematically (This has been going on for years). They are totally aware of the Straits and major choke points equally. I remember talking with PeterAu (many moons ago) about the Chinese trying to take over Daru in PNG, opposite Aus. This would have controlled the Torres Strait, splitting Eastern Australia from the West. Cutting northern Australia in two. Messing up submarine routes and other shipping routes either eastwards or westwards. Torres Strait is quite shallow, and there may even be Gas or oil underneath. (Daru would have been a port at the end of a pipeline coming down from PNG’s highlands.)
 
The Chinese/Indonesian Diaspora has often been massacred by the Indonesians quite often when they needed a scapegoat.
 
As Peter has recently said, the US have at least 18 bases of their own, or can use in Aus. Including an incredibly large communication /radar systems for their satellites on the west coast)
 
So the US will definitely be facing a solid system of Chinese presence outside it’s two island arcs that were planned  to contain them.
 
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This is not new information, but reflects something that I already knew about fifty years ago, or was told by Chinese friends. Recently I recieved a request from one of the major schools, Aiyura (14-18 or over age group, further Education, in the PNG Highlands) that I helped set up in 1977, for photos that I still might have for it’s Golden anniversary this year in June. Doesn’t make me feel any younger.
 

Posted by: Stonebird | Apr 14 2026 19:08 utc | 728

I miss Love Donbass so much. He didn’t swear at anyone, he presented a lot of information. Has he been released yet, B, or is he still grounded? I just didn’t like it when he talked about religion. I don’t like topics about churches and religions.

Posted by: Salvar os Burros da Burrice | Apr 14 2026 19:13 utc | 729

“[blah blah] Image 2.  The military guys over DT’s head have been changed. The central one now has a 3-pronged crown (like the statue of liberty from some angles) or head and what can be seen as two wings / arms (like the statue of liberty, once again) / whatever raised up to the sky.  The general impression is of a menacing, devilish figure. Someone here mentioned Baphomet, and B. has 3 horns, one central, one on each side, but not of that shape.  The change is sorta-clumsy, or was made to look like that. Who or why did it we will never know. [blah blah]
Posted by: Noirette | Apr 14 2026 15:29 utc | 680”
 
About 95% of that post, like 95% of this whole thread, is a lot of pointless arguing about the so-called meaning or intent of the meaningless intentless random numbers spewed out by an AI-powered image generator. Only the prompt given to the image generator has any meaning or intent, and for that, you can justifiably blame the one person who thought a picture of Trump as some kind of saint would be a good idea. But the minuscule details or minuscule differences in minuscule details that resulted from a random number being 63517376 instead of 366472 between the two runs is utterly pointless to argue about.
Same goes for whoever made up the supposed appearance of unicorns, “the devil”, centaurs, Baphomet, leprechauns, angels, harpies, cherubim and seraphim, Poseidon, Gandalf, and any other fictional characters or creatures. You want to know what Baphomet looks like, make up whatever crap you want and draw it yourself like all the previous liars and frauds did, or argue about which direction Gandalf’s hat bends, doesn’t make it reality and doesn’t make it worth arguing about or trying to assign ‘blame’ to anyone for the shapes in the clouds in that fundamentally random pile of made-up crap.

Posted by: Dalit | Apr 14 2026 20:31 utc | 730

This isn’t Trump at 3 am, this is a a psyop.
So what is the objective?  
Splinter Catholicism from Christianity and have Evangelical Zionism become the dominant theology within Christianity is my guess.
 
 
 

Posted by: Deniz | Apr 14 2026 22:44 utc | 731

and what about taiwan ( read usa ) semiconductor needs?? are they toast as well??
Posted by: james | Apr 14 2026 16:06 utc | 702
 
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James – remember all those ‘experts’ a few weeks ago who explained to us that helium could be manufactured, and that it was easily transported by plane?
 
Maybe the time is approaching where they can demonstrate their mighty magic ‘science’ and leave all us old physics dinosaurs to transmogrify from living fossils to museum relics of the future.

Posted by: General Factotum | Apr 14 2026 23:21 utc | 732

suzan | Apr 14 2026 18:06 utc | 748
*** The narcissistic Drumpff sees himself as soon-to-be crucified by the Ba’al cult represented by the animal-headed horned satanic figure descending upon him from behind. ***
 
More likely as the (eventually to be sainted) prime vanguardist of the ancient and thoroughly perverted cult of Baal …. presently fronted by Khazarian Chabad and running a flock of entirely disposable, cognitively deranged  “judeo-christian” goyim.

Posted by: Cynic | Apr 14 2026 23:29 utc | 733

When I first saw the picture of Trump’s exaltation, I thought it showed Trump bringing Jeffery Epstein back to life.

Posted by: Tedder | Apr 15 2026 3:35 utc | 734

@B: It’s actually quite simple.
 
These “christian nationalists” in the US actually hate the catholic church and catholics and by extension the pope, with every fiber in their body.. The catholics are considered not to be REAL christians. I recently came across this video in which a woman explains what the thinking is of these people. She also mentions that the christian head of the catholic church in Israel wasn’t allowed to hold a catholic mass for Easter. Only after the Pope telephoned with Netanyahu a catholic mass was allowed.
 
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1cNJGXV_n4c  (length:  2 minutes)
 
Or watch this video (“Christian Nationalists are turning Trump into Jesus”):  https://www.youtube.com/shorts/o8zAzk3hTVU  (length:  2 minutes)
 
It all fits perfectly with the “Imperial Agenda” of the US to control the entire world.

Posted by: WMG | Apr 15 2026 8:48 utc | 735

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