Women’s sports activist Riley Gaines says she still “supports” President Donald Trump despite the president saying he’s “not a big fan” of her.
Gaines was among the prominent conservative voices to slam Trump’s Truth Social post on Monday that depicted him as Jesus Christ healing a sick man, which has since been deleted. Trump later claimed he thought the AI-generated image depicted him as a doctor.
Reporters asked Trump if he deleted the post over criticism that Gaines and others voiced on X. The president responded: “I didn’t listen to Riley Gaines. I’m not a big fan of Riley, actually,” according to CBS News.
Gaines responded that “I could have told you” this would be Trump’s response to her criticism of his post. She also said she’s received a plethora of “left-wing media” reporters asking her for comment to “bait” her into saying something negative about Trump.
“Newsflash, I don’t do what I do or say what I say to be liked,” Gaines said on TikTok. “If that were the case, I would stick behind the slogan of, ‘trans women are women.’ I do what I do and say what I say because I have moral conviction, which seems to be a foreign concept to some people.”
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“Here’s my response to the reporters from CNN, ABC, CBS: I love the president, and I am so grateful and glad that he is in the Oval Office,” she said. “I will continue to support him and the America First agenda.”
Gaines added that she doesn’t do anything to receive approval from any man, and the main purpose of people’s lives is to glorify God. She also said Trump’s post “missed the mark.”
Trump posted his controversial image shortly after Pope Leo XIV indirectly criticized the Iran war and its “demonic cycle of evil.” The pope then dismissed Trump’s attack on him, saying: “I have no fear of the Trump administration.”
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Pastor Doug Wilson, the Reformed theologian and a spiritual mentor to government officials like War Secretary Pete Hegseth, said he believes Trump needs clearer spiritual guidance after committing “blasphemy” with artificial intelligence.
Wilson told the Washington Examiner he’s glad Trump deleted the post and rejects the idea of portraying himself as Jesus. The president “has to do better,” he said.
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