It’s sad both for the White House and for the president,” one cardinal said. “I mean, he makes themselves ridiculous, right?”

That would be my number one choice,” he said at the time. The image shows Trump dressed in a white garment wearing a pope’s hat and a necklace with a cross hanging around his neck. He is sitting in a chair with his index finger pointed upwards.

An AI-generated image depicting Trump as pope didn't sit well with a group of Catholics, who took to social media over the weekend to condemn the portrayal.