White House deletes video footage from Easter event where Trump was compared to Jesus

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Thursday 02 April 2026 11:38 EDT


The White House appeared to delete video footage online from an Easter event where President Donald Trump mused about being king, insulted European leaders, encouraged Charlie Kirk’s widow to sue her critics and was compared to Jesus by his spiritual adviser. A video of the event was initially posted on the official White House website and YouTube channel, but it has since been removed from public view. A thumbnail of the video remained on the site as of Thursday.

Paula White‑Cain, a televangelist who has served as Trump’s spiritual adviser across both his presidencies, was blasted for comparing the billionaire president's life to that of Jesus Christ’s during the Easter lunch event Wednesday at the White House.

“Mr. President, no one has paid the price like you have paid the price. It almost cost you your life,” Cain said of Trump in her remarks. “You were betrayed and arrested and falsely accused. It’s a familiar pattern that our Lord and savior showed us. But it didn’t end there for him, and it didn’t end there for you,” she said.

The lunch was closed to the press, but attendees included Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Attorney General Pam Bondi and Erika Kirk, the widow of the slain right-wing activist, according to a pool report.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-easter-video-jesus-deleted-b2950968.html

[wnylib]

1. .

[Bayard]

4. I'll second that

Everyone knows he's the Anti-Christ.

[wcmagumba]

2. but, but, but, Trump is "more popular than Jesus", just ask Maga...or maybe John Lennon...

[mwmisses4289]

3. That Paula lady is seriously mentally ill.

[dalton99a]

5. Video:

[EuterpeThelo]

8. As an aside, I remain

totally appalled that Jonathan Cain actually married that whack-a-doodle. Journey was my favorite band when I was about 12 and my first concert without my parents was their performance at the Oakland Coliseum on the "Escape" tour. He has brought shame upon their legacy.

[FakeNoose]

12. He's born again, isn't he?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Cain

I have to say I'm glad they married each other instead of making 2 other undeserving people completely miserable.

[Delarage]

30. OMG

I did not know that....I am appalled and disappointed.

[riversedge]

6. 'The president also urged Erika Kirk to sue after she was mocked last week by controversial social media comedian Druski

I am being generous when I say--I wish Trump would walk on a banana peeling!!

“I can't get a ballroom approved,” he grumbled about an unfavorable ruling that came down this week about his $400 million project. “It's pretty amazing, right? If I was a king, we'd be doing a lot more. I'm doing a lot, but I could be doing a lot more if I was a king.”

The president also urged Erika Kirk to sue after she was mocked last week by controversial social media comedian Druski.

White House deletes video footage from Easter event where Trump was compared to Jesus 🙁

Clips from Trump’s closed-door speech are now circulating on social media after the White House deleted the video

www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

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[CTyankee]

7. My stepdaughter is a rabbi and I hope she didn't see this. She would be horrified.

[IronLionZion]

9. Let's nail him to a cross and see if he comes back to life after 3 days

[50 Shades Of Blue]

10. SPEWING!!!!!!!!!!!

[twodogsbarking]

15. and then we can nail him up again.

I'll be saying my Act of Contrition now.

[travelingthrulife]

31. This time put a stake in his heart too.

[ms liberty]

29. DU'zy!

[mcar]

11. Good gad!

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

13. These people are loons.

[FakeNoose]

14. Some of my favorite memes - 'memba these?

[twodogsbarking]

16. Jesus rode in on an ass and Trump is an ass. I can see the valid comparison now.

[Ray Bruns]

26. So by your logic, Jesus rode on Trump?

[twodogsbarking]

28. The one that was ridden didn't smell as bad. Hee haw, Hee haw.

[twodogsbarking]

17. White woman named White in The Whites Only House. How, well, white.

[Botany]

18. "You were betrayed and arrested and falsely accused. It's a familiar pattern that our Lord and savior ...

… showed us.”

So Jesus kept and filed a set of false records so as to hide his payments to a sex worker?

[mwb970]

19. Nothing surprises me any more.

[OnlinePoker]

20. Shouldn't a more apt comparison be Pontius Pilate?

If Jesus ever actually came back, Trump and his minions would be down at Home Depot getting building materials in a heartbeat.

[TalenaGor]

21. RELEASE THE KRACKEN!

[GenThePerservering]

23. So they took down this nonsense to try to hide it

It's adorable that they still don't know how the internet works.

[trusty elf]

24. Absolutely repulsive and nauseating,

but not enough to gag a magat, apparently.

[YoshidaYui]

25. Of course, the malignant narcissist would compare himself to Christ

Maybe Trump would rather be a god than a king. He certainly seems like the type who would want somebody to worship him and his Maga cult does and he would be even more insane if he started thinking himself in these terms.

[Ray Bruns]

27. Just in case some MAGAts show up on here who haven't read their Bible ( which means all of them)

3 “You shall have no other gods before[a] me.
4 “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.
5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me”
Exodus 20:3-5