Trump: Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony ‘Was a Disgrace’
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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.