(LifeSiteNews) — Former U.S. President Donald Trump joined in the chorus of voices condemning the opening ceremony of this year’s Olympic Games.
During an interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham this week, Trump described the event as “terrible.”
“I thought it was a disgrace… I thought it was terrible,” he said.
Trump follows in the footsteps of his son Donald Trump Jr., film icon Mel Gibson, and X CEO Elon Musk in rebuking the production, which was choreographed by 42-year-old homosexual Frenchman Thomas Jolly.
Gibson sounds off on #Olympic2024: “It’s telling that the Ayatollah in Iran condemns this disgusting offensive display & yet our apostate, schismatic excuse for a pope says nothing.” #BoycottOlympics2024 https://t.co/8NfJNzFdIj
— Stephen Kokx (@StephenKokx) July 30, 2024
Ingraham asked Trump whether such “insulting” displays will happen at the next Olympics if he becomes president again.
“We won’t be having a Last Supper as portrayed the way they portrayed it the other night,” Trump confidently replied. “I’m very open-minded, but I thought what they did was a disgrace.”
Since the ceremonies were held last Friday, prominent politicians, public figures, and religious leaders have expressed near-universal outrage.
NFL star kicker Harrison Butker called the depiction “crazy” and, quoting Scripture, said “God is not mocked” on his Instagram account.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò described it as “the latest in a long series of vile attacks on God, the Catholic Religion and natural Morality by the antichristic elite that holds Western countries hostage.”
German Cardinal Gerhard Muller characterized it as an “act of spiritual terrorism.”
Cardinal Müller to @Infovaticana on #Olympics2024 opening ceremony:
“The mockery of the Last Supper by spiritually uprooted & mentally disturbed actors, their instigators & sponsors was an act of spiritual terrorism that turned against their authors.”
Report on @LifeSite pic.twitter.com/wS8nF8b4LA— Michael Haynes 🇻🇦 (@MLJHaynes) July 29, 2024
Aside from the Last Supper, the ceremony included an actor playing a headless Marie Antoinette, the country’s last queen, who was married to King Louis XVI. Antoinette was murdered by guillotine like her husband in 1793 at age 37.
The production also featured a golden calf and a rider on a white horse galloping down the Seine River.
The 2024 Paris Olympics has gone full Woke dystopian.
The opening ceremony was filled with transgend*r mockery of the Last Supper, the Golden Calf idol, and even the Pale Horse from the Book of Revelation.
The Olympics has made it clear that Christian viewers aren’t welcome. pic.twitter.com/LgawyE6YRX
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) July 26, 2024
Pope Francis is yet to condemn the ceremony, though Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, expressed opposition in a social media post Tuesday.
“Respect for #JesusChrist … is an indisputable, definite matter for Muslims. We condemn these insults directed at the holy figures of divine religions, including Jesus Christ,” he said.
Respect for #JesusChrist (pbuh) is an indisputable, definite matter for Muslims. We condemn these insults directed at the holy figures of divine religions, including Jesus Christ (pbuh).#Olympic2024
— Khamenei.ir (@khamenei_ir) July 30, 2024
Islam does not hold that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. It also denies that he is a member of the Holy Trinity. Instead, it considers Our Lord a mortal man who is merely a “prophet.” Christianity teaches that Christ’s Hypostatic union makes him both human and divine, and that he is a priest, prophet, and king who died to redeem mankind from sin and that he alone is the path to heaven.
Despite the widespread backlash, the ceremony was praised by French President Emmanuel Macron and U.S. First Lady Jill Biden.
“It was just spectacular,” Biden said at a brunch Monday in Paris.
‘IT WAS SPECTACULAR’: First lady Jill Biden fawns over Olympics opening ceremony that’s received widespread backlash for featuring drag queens making fun of Last Supper. pic.twitter.com/tpcZp4XFOe
— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 28, 2024
Macron likewise credited Jolly for his “creative genius.”
Olympic organizers have since issued a half-hearted apology for the ceremony, saying they are sorry “if anyone was offended.”