Article continues below advertisementVice President J.D. Vance defended President Donald Trump's widely condemned posting of an AI-generated image depicting him as a Jesus-like figure by characterizing it as a "joke" that was misunderstood.The controversial image of the POTUS was widely blasted as blasphemous, showing Trump in white robes placing a glowing hand on a sick man, was shared shortly after Trump publicly criticized Pope Leo XIV as being "weak on crime" and "terrible for foreign policy.