The hosts of Fox & Friends Weekend drew parallels between Jesus Christ’s intense suffering on the cross and President Donald Trump’s decision to hang his mugshot outside the Oval Office on Saturday.
“It’s not the first time you’ve seen something that was supposed to humiliate him, he’s turned into a triumph,” co-host Rachel Campos Duffy said.
“I’m not making the comparison to Jesus,” she said before promptly making the comparison: “The cross was meant as a humiliation, and the cross was turned into a sign of triumph.”
“In the same way Donald Trump has said, ‘I’m not going to let you humiliate me, I’m gonna look in the camera and show my anger, and now I’m gonna hang it in the Oval Office where you tried to keep me out,’” Campos Duffy added, driving home the analogy home.
Trump’s White House decor drew scrutiny earlier this week after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi posted a photo in which the president’s mugshot appears framed in the background just outside the Oval Office. Trump’s mugshot was taken on Aug. 24, 2023, in Atlanta, Ga., following his indictment for trying to overturn the election.
Comparisons between Trump and God or Jesus are common on the MAGA right. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, devout Catholic actor Jim Caviezel, and TV evangelist Hank Kunneman are among the public figures who have likened the Republican president to the Christian messiah.
