President Donald Trump was lectured about showing ‘mercy’ to illegal immigrants and transgender children during a sermon from a left-wing bishop at the Washington National Cathedral on Tuesday.
The Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, delivered the shockingly politically charged sermon at the Service of Prayer for the Nation as President Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance and their respective families sat together and listened.
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Addressing Trump directly, Bishop Budde said: “I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country that are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and Independent families, some who fear for their lives.”
Budde also asked Trump, who listened on with a flat expression, to “have mercy” upon illegal immigrants.
“The people who pick our crops, and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry farms and meat packing plants, who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants, and work the night shifts in hospitals, they might not be citizens or have the proper documentation,” Budde told the commander-in-chief.
“The vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. I ask you to have mercy Mr. President on those in communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away,” Budde said.
While Trump kept a poker face throughout the pessimistic sermon, others in the audience appeared noticeably uncomfortable during Budde’s leftist screed.
Asked about the prayer service later in the day by reporters at the White House, Trump did not call out the bishop for her sermon, but asked the reporters: “What did you think, did you like it? Did you find it exciting?”
“Not too exciting was it. I think it was a great service,” Trump told reporters.
Republican Congressman from Georgia Mike Collins wrote on X Tuesday afternoon that “The person giving this sermon should be added to the deportation list.”
Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde, consecrated as bishop of Washington in November 2011, is an activist for several progressive causes. According to her diocese website, Budde is “an advocate and organizer in support of justice concerns, including racial equity, gun violence prevention, immigration reform, the full inclusion of LGBTQ+ persons, and the care of creation.”




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