{"id":161684,"date":"2026-04-20T01:37:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=161684"},"modified":"2026-04-20T01:37:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:37:50","slug":"christian-coalitions-ralph-reed-ties-himself-in-knots-defending-trumps-ai-jesus-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=161684","title":{"rendered":"Christian Coalition\u2019s Ralph Reed Ties Himself in Knots Defending Trump\u2019s AI Jesus Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Louisiana Voice | April 14, 2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was almost funny \u2014 grotesque, but funny \u2014 to watch and hear all those trying to rationalize and otherwise explain away that \u2018Jesus Trump\u2019 AI-generated photo posted on Truth Social.<\/p>\n<p>Trump attempted to explain it all away by saying he had been under the impression that the photo depicted him as a physician, not Jesus. That\u2019s pretty counterintuitive, even for a master prevaricator.<\/p>\n<p>And while that\u2019s hilarious on its face, it doesn\u2019t approach the duplicity of one Ralph Reed, that sanctimonious \u2018Christian\u2019 conservative who sits on Trump\u2019s faith advisory board and who once served as leader of the Christian Coalition. It was Ralph Reed who came charging in to defend him over the Jesus picture by saying to Associated Press: \u2018There is a deep reservoir of appreciation for the president and his faith-based policies that transcends and eclipses any disagreement over a social media post.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/louisianavoice.com\/2026\/04\/14\/former-christian-coalition-head-with-ties-to-fraudster-jack-abramoff-ties-self-in-knots-in-attempt-to-justify-jesus-post\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more at Louisiana Voice<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louisiana Voice | April 14, 2026 \u201cIt was almost funny \u2014 grotesque, but funny \u2014 to watch and hear all those trying to rationalize and otherwise explain away that \u2018Jesus Trump\u2019 AI-generated photo posted on Truth Social. Trump attempted to explain it all away by saying he had been under the impression that the photo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161695,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161684\/revisions\/161695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}