在周五晚巴黎夏季奥运会开幕式的后期，镜头切换到塞纳河边的一张长桌上，桌上坐满了模仿耶稣和他十二门徒在受难前夜的达芬奇壁画杰作《最后的晚餐》的变装明星。
右翼评论员和一些立法者在开幕式后不久就通过社交媒体质疑为何这个场景会出现在开幕式上，前CNN主持人皮尔斯·摩根发帖说：“他们会以这种方式嘲笑其他宗教吗？这个决定令人震惊。”
小唐纳德·特朗普转发了这一描述的照片，并表示：“他们甚至不再掩饰了。”而亿万富翁SpaceX、特斯拉和X的老板埃隆·马斯克在他的社交媒体平台上称这个模仿“对基督徒极其不尊重”。
周六，众议院议长、路易斯安那州共和党人迈克·约翰逊谴责了这一场景，称其“令人震惊且侮辱了全世界的基督徒”。
前特朗普律师詹娜·埃利斯也批评这一行为是“公开的异教和撒旦象征主义”，堪萨斯城酋长队的踢球手哈里森·巴特克——因建议女性应专注于做母亲而引发争议——在Instagram上称这一模仿“疯狂”。
一些基督教主教也对这一模仿表示哀叹：明尼苏达州主教、美国著名天主教领袖罗伯特·巴伦称其为“粗俗的嘲弄”，并象征着“一个深度世俗化的后现代社会”，而威斯康星州主教唐纳德·海因则谴责其为“亵渎神灵”，德克萨斯州主教丹尼尔·弗洛雷斯发帖称：“这些议程只是利用运动员；他们值得更多尊重。基督教信仰的人也是如此。”
这一模仿也引起了保守派评论员的反感，有人认为这一场景是给基督徒传递了一个信息，即他们“不受欢迎”，还有人声称奥运会已经“完全进入了觉醒的反乌托邦”，同时认为展示一匹白马携带奥运旗帜是对《启示录》中死亡象征的苍白马的引用，这是圣经的最后一本书。
右翼电影制片人迪内什·德索萨——他的2022年阴谋纪录片《2000骡子》提出了2020年选举被从前总统唐纳德·特朗普手中偷走的极右翼说法——称这一“最后的晚餐”模仿是“亵渎神灵”，他说：“离谱和不尊重根本不足以形容这一切。”
原文来自于福布斯杂志：
Late into the opening ceremony of the Paris Summer Olympics Friday night, cameras cut to a long table overlooking the Seine River filled with drag stars made to resemble Jesus and the 12 apostles the night before his crucifixion in Da Vinci’s fresco masterpiece “The Last Supper.”
Right-wing pundits and some lawmakers took to social media shortly after, questioning why the scene was included in the opening ceremony, with former CNN host Piers Morgan posting: “Would they have mocked any other religion like this? Appalling decision.”
Donald Trump Jr. re-posted a photo of the depiction, saying, “They’re not even pretending anymore,” while billionaire SpaceX, Tesla and X owner Elon Musk called the parody “extremely disrespectful to Christians” in a post on his social media platform.
On Saturday, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., blasted the scene, calling it “shocking and insulting to Christian people around the world.”
Former Trump attorney Jenna Ellis also criticized the move as “[o]vert pagan and satanic symbolism,” and Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker—who sparked controversy by suggesting women should focus on being mothers —called the parody “crazy” in a story on Instagram.
Some Christian bishops also bemoaned the parody: Minnesota Bishop Robert Barron, a prominent U.S. Catholic leader, called it a “gross mockery” and emblematic of a “deeply secularist postmodern society,” while Wisconsin-based Bishop Donald Hying slammed it as “blasphemy,” and Texas-based Bishop Daniel Flores posted: “the agendas just use the athletes; they deserve more respect. So do people of Christian Faith.”
The parody also drew backlash from conservative commentators, with one arguing the scene was a message to Christians that they are “NOT WELCOME,” and another claiming the Olympics have “gone full Woke dystopian,” while also arguing the depiction of a white horse carrying the Olympic flag was a reference to the pale horse, a sign of death in the Book of Revelation, the last book in the Bible.
Right-wing filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza—whose 2022 conspiracy documentary “2000 Mules” laid out a far-right claim the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump—called the “Last Supper” parody “blasphemous,” saying: “Outrageous and disrespectful doesn’t begin to cover it.”
