President Donald Trump has weighed in on the controversy surrounding the anti-Christian opening ceremony for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France.
The divisive far-left ceremony featured a scene parodied Leonardo da Vinci’s acclaimed painting “The Last Supper.”
“I thought that the opening ceremony was a disgrace, actually,” Trump told Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham during a new interview on Monday.
“I thought it was a disgrace,” Trump added.
The scene, which was clearly designed to enflame and divide, depicted drag queens surrounding a table of what appeared to resemble the last dinner between Jesus and his disciples.
The French Bishops’ Conference blasted the scene in a statement.
The group said the ceremony “included scenes of mockery and derision of Christianity.”
Paris Games Opening ceremony : press release from the French Bishops' Conference and @holygames2024 👇🏻 pic.twitter.com/tLHMCqwH08
— Église catholique en France (@Eglisecatho) July 27, 2024
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) also condemned the scene in a post on X.
“Last night’s mockery of the Last Supper was shocking and insulting to Christian people around the world who watched the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games,” Johnson wrote.
“The war on our faith and traditional values knows no bounds today.
“But we know that truth and virtue will always prevail.”
The director of the opening ceremony, Thomas Jolly, told French TV station BFMTV over the weekend that “The Last Supper” was not his inspiration for the highly-criticized scene.
“It’s not my inspiration,” he claimed.
“There is Dionysus who arrives on this table.
“He is there because he is the God of celebration in Greek mythology.
“The god of wine who is one of the jewels of France.
“And the father of Sequana, the goddess who is connected to the river, the Seine.
“The idea was to have a pagan celebration connected to the gods of Olympus.”
“You will never find in me a desire to mock and denigrate anyone,” Jolly continued.
“I wanted to make a ceremony that repairs, that reconciles, and also that reaffirms the values of our Republic: liberty-equality-fraternity.”
Trump said if he were at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games and could influence the organizers, there wouldn’t be a portrayal of “The Last Supper.”
“We won’t be having a Last Supper as portrayed the way they portrayed it the other night,” Trump told Ingraham.
“I mean, they can do certain things. I thought it was terrible,” Trump said.
“Look, I’m for everybody.
“I’m very open-minded…
“But I thought what they did was a disgrace.”
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Donald Trump on the Olympics: “I thought the opening ceremony was a disgrace” pic.twitter.com/D7RFvFGVm1
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 30, 2024
