Nick Adams, an Australian commentator who once worked as a deputy mayor for the inner west region of Sydney, has been found to be the first individual to circulate the AI created image of President Donald Trump looking like Christ which he later took down from Truth Social.
As reported by fact checking sites Snopes and Yahoo News, Adams released an almost same-looking painting on X on 4th February 2026, nearly two months before Trump posted his version on the social media platform.
This is because the picture shows the President wearing a white robe with a red sash and placing his hand on someone kneeling while the Statue of Liberty, bald eagles, and a headless being hover above him.
Trump posted his version on 12 April. It was taken off from his page the very next day when Trump was asked about it outside the Oval Office.
He told that the image portrays him as a physician instead of Christ and that the image has something to do with the Red Cross.
From Ashfield council to the White House orbit
Adams, whose real name is Nicholas Adamopoulos, was born in Sydney in 1984.
He was elected to the old Ashfield municipality in 2004 on the Liberal ticket when he was 19 years old.
A year later, he became deputy mayor. During his time in office, he suggested killing local pigeons because of bird flu fears and got into a fight with Channel 10 reporter Brett Mason in 2009 that was caught on camera.
The Liberal Party wanted to suspend him because of the incident, but Adams says he quit before they could do anything. He moved to the US in 2012 and became a citizen in 2021.
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From that time onward, he has managed to attract many followers on social media, branding himself an “alpha male” conservative pundit and a frequent guest on Fox News.
Trump nominated him as the United States Ambassador to Malaysia last July and appointed him as the Special Presidential Envoy for American Tourism, Exceptionalism, and Values this year.
The picture attracted much condemnation from critics. Former GOP congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene called it blasphemy, while US Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic dismissed it as just a joke that people misunderstood.
