{"id":21445,"date":"2026-04-16T21:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/tillis-on-trumps-reasoning-for-posting-ai-jesus-image-ill-take-it-at-face-value\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T21:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:22:12","slug":"tillis-on-trumps-reasoning-for-posting-ai-jesus-image-ill-take-it-at-face-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/tillis-on-trumps-reasoning-for-posting-ai-jesus-image-ill-take-it-at-face-value\/","title":{"rendered":"Tillis on Trump&#8217;s reasoning for posting AI Jesus image: &#8216;I\u2019ll take it at face value&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said on Wednesday that he was willing to take President Trump&rsquo;s explanation for a controversial post depicting the president as a Jesus-like figure at &ldquo;face value,&rdquo; arguing that he was more concerned with Trump&rsquo;s comments toward Pope Leo XIV. &ldquo;I worry less about the post,&rdquo; Tillis said during an exclusive interview&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5833688-trump-jesus-like-post-tillis\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said on Wednesday that he was willing to take President Trump&rsquo;s explanation for a controversial post depicting the president as a Jesus-like figure at &ldquo;face value,&rdquo; arguing that he was more concerned with Trump&rsquo;s comments toward Pope Leo XIV. &ldquo;I worry less about the post,&rdquo; Tillis said during an exclusive interview&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}