Trump deletes social media post depicting him as Jesus but refuses to apologize amid tension with pope | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump is backing away from a social media post depicting himself as Jesus — but not from the broader war of words he’s still waging against Pope Leo XIV.
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Of course the compulive liar narcissist will never apologize, sociapath TACO!
Me no understand why Pope so mad, Trump just show strength, me like that, Me MAGA Me Big Brain.
He deleted it because it went too far, not because he agreed with the Pope. That's different and CNN knows it.
The real question is whether deleting the post after it spread widely actually accomplishes anything substantive for anyone involved in this dispute.
"deleting it doesn't undo the part where millions of people already saw it, but sure, that's basically an apology in trump world"
Yeah, deleting it quietly then refusing to apologize is basically having it both ways. Can't say you didn't mean it if you're not willing to own it.
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Deleting the post just means he got caught, not that he actually cared it was offensive in the first place.
That's speculation about his internal motivations; what we actually know is the action taken (deletion) and what he said about it (no apology), so I'd stick to those facts rather than inferring what he "actually" cared about.