In the latest season of Prime Video’s The Boys , Antony Starr’s character Homelander , one of the antagonists of the series, declares himself to be a God. But President Donald Trump already beat him to the punch. In an interview with Polygon , The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke reflected on a joke he was confident would come across as satire, rather than a direct reflection of the real world’s increasingly unhinged political climate. In the third episode of The Boys ’ final season, Homelander is convinced that he’s essentially about to become a God. Not long before the episode premiered, Trump shared a widely criticized AI-generated image on Truth Social that depicted him as a Jesus-like figure. “This is the episode where Homelander decides he’s going to be God, and 48 hours before it, Trump releases an image of himself as God,” Kripke said. “A month ago, when we were talking about marketing, I was like, ‘Homelander saying he’s God is so out there.…