President Donald Trump said Monday that he wasn’t involved with an artificial intelligence-created image of himself as the pope, which was posted on his own social media account that he oversees.

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When a reporter noted to him on Monday that some Catholics were offended by the image, Trump interjected: “Oh, they can’t take a joke,” going on to criticize the “fake news media.”

“I had nothing to do with it,” he added. “That’s not me that did it.”

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Trump insisted that he first saw the image – which was shared posted Friday night on his Truth Social account and later promoted by the White House on its official X account – on Sunday evening.

Still, he said that first lady Melania Trump “thought it was cute.”

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