Kacey Musgraves Faces Backlash After AI Dolly Parton Parody Takes Aim at Donald Trump

Kelly Christine Sutton

Doubling down on the blasphemy, eh?

By now, we’ve all see the ridiculous AI photo of President Trump depicted as Jesus, laying his healing hands on someone in a hospital bed. I won’t dignify it by embedding it here, but the photo sparked outrage from a number of Conservative supporters, especially the Evangelical folks of the Republican party, and deservedly so… it’s just an absurd display of ignorance and blasphemy.

And look, I voted for Donald Trump in the last election, and I’d do it again. Despite the stuff going on in Iran right now that nobody under the “America First” banner voted for, despite the high prices at grocery stores and the pump right now, despite no real effort to “drain the swamp,” and despite the constant tweeting and public personal beefs with the Pope and everybody else, I still think the alternative… a hyper-woke Kamala Harris presidency with rampant crime and wide open boarders would be far, far worse.

But I have to say, this is pretty beyond the pale… utterly blasphemous towards the God that Trump claims to follow, I just can’t understand how the leader of the free world doesn’t have the discernment to know that would go over poorly. On top of the hubris to actually tweet something like that… it’s disappointing, but unfortunately not surprising. And I hate the word “offensive” because people are easily offended these days, but this is actually offensive.

He actually deleted it, but then he gave some excuse about how he thought the photo was related to the Red Cross and he was depicted as a doctor. C’mon…

Of course, I still support the President (and am praying for his genuine repentance), but can we get some focus in the White House? Can we get an ounce of humility in the White House? I like that President Trump is funny, and unafraid to say the quiet part out loud at times, and but there’s still a lot of work to be done… stop with the social media battles and let’s get on it, eh?

Anyways, the point of this blog…

Kacey Musgraves, an unapologetic liberal and Donald Trump hater, posted a similar image (I also won’t dignify it by embedding it here), featuring her and Dolly Parton, to mock Donald Trump (and Jesus as well by doing so). And of course, fans were mad about that too. But not for the reasons you’d think… no Kacey Musgraves fans weren’t mad about her mocking the God of the universe… they were mad that she used AI to do it.

Seriously… that was the big issue across hundreds of comments.

The tweet exploded with over 21,000 likes and over 1.1 million views, and much like Donald Trump’s post, the overwhelming response was pretty negative. And sure, a number of people pointed out how mocking blasphemy with blasphemy is egregious too… but a shocking amount of commentary was about how she used AI to make the image. They seriously asked why didn’t she hire a graphic designer to do it.

Here’s some of the comments:

It goes on and on like that…

Don’t get me wrong, I hate AI as much as the next person, especially in creative spaces like music and art, but if this doesn’t illustrate the massive philosophical divide in America right now, I don’t know what does. You have some people outraged with the blatant show of disrespect to Jesus Christ, and others who are outraged that she used AI to make the picture (that they otherwise loved).

I get it, not everybody is a Christian, and plenty of plenty of people openly try to mock God all the time, they don’t care one bit about the Trump post (outside of their own performative virtue signaling), but I’m just sort of dumbfounded at how a group of people could have such vastly different responses to a sacrilegious meme. I think we’re doomed…

To close out this blog, let’s shine a spotlight on a couple of the real ones, the ones who called Kacey out for mocking Jesus with this blasphemous nonsense.

God help us all…