Trump is mad. This time, in church. While speaking at the National Prayer service in Washington D.C., Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde gave a beautiful speech directly to the president’s face, petitioning him to “have mercy” on immigrants and queer children.
In an inaugural prayer service sermon, the Episcopal bishop of Washington appealed directly to Donald Trump to “have mercy upon” communities across the country targeted by the new administration’s immigration and LGBTQ+ policies.
The Trump administration has already issued executive orders rolling back transgender rights and toughening immigration policies. When he returned to the White House, Trump was asked about the sermon.
DONALD Trump has lashed out at the bishop who delivered a sermon at Tuesday’s National Prayer Service saying she wasn’t good at her job. The president called Mariann Budde nasty and called on her
The inaugural prayer service at the Washington National Cathedral on Tuesday morning featured a number of interfaith leaders, including the Rt. Rev. Mariann Budde, the Episcopal bishop of Washington,
The Episcopal bishop who delivered a Tuesday sermon that got under President Donald Trump’s skin confirmed she was speaking directly to him when she urged her congregation to show compassion to others.
Newly inaugurated President Donald Trump late Tuesday attacked as “nasty” the Episopalian bishop who pleaded with him at a prayer serivce earlier to show Christian mercy to the immigrants he wants to ban from the nation and members of the LGBT+ community he aims to punish.
President Trump labeled Washington Bishop Mariann Budde as 'nasty' and criticized her sermon for supporting LGBT rights and illegal migrants. His comm
At the service, Episocal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde called on Trump to “have mercy” for the “scared” LGBT + children and immigrant families across the country. “There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and independent families — some who fear for their lives,” Budde pointedly said directly to Trump.
The bishop criticized the president's agenda and called on him to show “mercy” on people she claimed were living in fear because Trump was president.
The bishop made the appeal to Trump a day after the US President signed executive orders reversing Biden-era protections for transgender Americans and suspending the US refugee admissions program