Planetary and Pope: How from an AI image the absolute « Antichrist » was created
But who is the Antichrist really according to theological and cultural narratives?
« Pope Donald »
The US Presidency and Popper joined forces on May 3, when Donald Trump published a photo of Truth Social as a Pope, created with artificial intelligence.
The picture was then shared by the White House accounts.
Sitting in an elaborate golden chair, he was wearing a white outfit and a bishopric hat, with his right finger raised.
– The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 3, 2025
Trump has since told reporters that « it had nothing to do with it (…) someone did it for fun. »
This image of « Pope Donald I » has, According to The Conversation, Historical significance, for reasons that the White House and Trump were fortunately ignorant.
When AI makes the antichrist
It is the first picture that combines the two most important perceptions of the Antichrist figure in Western thought: on the one hand, that of a Pope and, on the other, that of an authoritarian, dominant world emperor.
On April 22, the day after the death of Pope Francis, Trump said: « I would like to become a Pope. This would be my first choice. «
On April 28, Trump told The Atlantic: « I rule the country and the world. »
Thus, both the Pope and the World Emperor.
The imperial antichrist
In the New Testament, John’s first letter says that, before Christ’s return, the Antichrist will appear: the most obvious sign that the end of the world is approaching.
The Antichrist will be the predominantly satanic man who will expel Christian believers. Eventually he will be defeated by the forces of the good. As Sir Isaac Newton suggested, « the search for the prophecies that (God) gave us to get to know the antichrist » is a Christian obligation.
The first description of the Antichrist’s life was written by a Venetian monk, the Montier-En-Der, about 1,100 years ago. According to Anto, the Antichrist will be a tyrannical evil king who will corrupt all those who surround him with gold and silver. It will be brought up with all kinds of evil. Bad spirits will be his teachers and his permanent comrades.
The Antichrist, left, is depicted as king, in this image by a 12th -century manuscript.
Searching for his own glory, as Anto put it, this king « will call himself an almighty God ».
The Antichrist was the opposite of Christ.
According to Christian tradition, Christ was fully human, but free from any sin. The Antichrist was also a completely human, but « full of sin ».
The Antichrist was not so much a supernatural being that he got flesh, as a man who was fully converted into a demon.
Influenced by Christian stories about the Antichrist, Islam and Judaism created their own antichrists-Al-Dajal, the Antichrist of the Muslims, and Armilos, the Antichrist of the Jews. Both al-Dajal and Armilou are Messiahs that look like kings.
The well -known ‘devilish’ leaders
During the centuries, many leaders of the world have been described as « antichrist » – the Roman Emperors Nero and Domitian were considered anti -fiery, and the French Emperor Napoleon was named Antichrist in his time.
There have been more recent leaders who have been likened to the Antichrist, including former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, King Charles III, former Russian leader Michael Gorbachev, founder of Al Kaida.
The Pope’s Prophecy
In 1190, King Richard I of England, on the way to the Holy Land, was informed by the Italian theologian Ioakim of Fiore that the next Pope would be the Antichrist.
In the history of the Antichrist, this was an important moment. Since then, the tyrannical antichrist outside the church will contradict the papal scammer within it.
The fact that the Catholic Pope was the Antichrist was the common view of the Pope during the Protestant 16th -century reform.
Martin Luther (1483–1546), the founder of the Protestant Revolution, said that the Pope « is the true (…) Antichrist who raised himself above Christ and put him against him ».
Like all Christians would not worship the devil as God, he continued by saying, « So we cannot allow his apostle, the Pope or the Antichrist, to rule as our head or master. »
By medieval perception to today
As he was going to burn from the Catholic Queen Maria for his Protestant beliefs, the English Bishop Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556) said: « As for the Pope, I reject him as an enemy of Christ and the antichrist with all his false teachings. »
Even in 1988, when Pope John Paul II spoke to the European Parliament, the hard -core Protestant leader of Northern Ireland Ian Payli shouted: « Antichrist! I renounce you, along with all your cults and doctrines, « to which the Pope is said to respond with an embarrassed smile.
In addition to the most extreme conservative Protestants, the idea of the papal antichrist no longer has any resonance.
In the end, the papal antichrist has left the western scene for the imperial antichrist.
The Antichrist and the end of the world
In the history of Christianity, the idea of the antichrist was an essential element of the expectations of Christ’s return and the end of the world.
In the final battle between the forces of good and evil, the Antichrist will be defeated by the forces of Christ.
In short, the rise of the world emperor who was the Antichrist was a sign that the end of the world was approaching.
In the light of Western history of the « Antichrist », the image of the imperial and papal president of the United States is a powerful sign that world order – at least as we know it over the last 80 years – can come to an end.
