Inside Edition: Donald Trump Demands Apology From Bishop Who Prayed For 'Mercy'

"Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde used her time in the pulpit during the National Cathedral prayer service to ask for mercy for the marginalized from the 47th President. She mentioned members of the LGBTQ+ community, the poor, and immigrants. Bishop Budde reminded those in attendance of the biblical command to welcome strangers. The President blasted the Bishop on his social media network, Truth Social, writing in part, “She is not very good at her job! She and her church owe the public an apology!”

Source:Inside Edition inside the National Cathedral in Washington. (Pun intended)

From Inside Edition

From the President of the United States Donald J. Trump: 

"The so-called Bishop who spoke at the National Prayer Service on Tuesday morning was a Radical Left hard line Trump hater. She brought her church into the World of politics in a very ungracious way. She was nasty in tone, and not compelling or smart. She failed to mention the large number of illegal migrants that came into our Country and killed people. Many were deposited from jails and mental institutions. It is a giant crime wave that is taking place in the USA. Apart from her inappropriate statements, the service was a very boring and uninspiring one. She is not very good at her job! She and her church owe the public an apology!" 

From Donald J. Trump

And from my colleague Kire Schneider wrote about this earlier today: 

"If your daily diet consists of nothing but meth, heroin, alcohol, pot, and red bull... first of all, your daily diet would only have days to live because that would kill you pretty quickly. But if you have Superman's immune system or something and you can do that, then maybe you are so far out in outer space (also known as MAGA Land) that you are crazy, dumb, or high enough (perhaps all those things) to believe that the modern Republican Party is the party of law & order, family values, free speech, freedom of religion, and the U.S. Constitution. 

And there are 77 million people who did vote for Donald Trump. So one might think based on what I just said that the we have a meth heads, pot heads, alcoholics, etc, perhaps escaped mental patients who never got caught and are still living freely in society... 

From The New Democrat

Just for the record: you are going to hear a lot of "this is who you voted for", (or something to that affect) from The New Democrat in 2025. That message will be for Independents, center-right Republicans, and blue-collar Democrats, who voted for Donald Trump for President in 2025, but don't like him now, perhaps didn't like him in 2024, and don't like the job that he's doing. Just as a reminder that they were warned about who this guy is and what he would do as President and voted for him anyway. 

Feeling sorry for Trump voters, is like feeling sorry for drug addicts or alcoholics. It's not like they can argue that they weren't given fair warning about what life would be like if they got into alcohol, heroin, cocaine, in a big way. (Unless they were drunk or high at the time that they were warned) They were, but they made their choices anyway. Which is many ways is what democracy is about: we make choices in who we want representing us and then we have to live with them.

As far as President Trump demanding an apology from Bishop Budde: this is coming from a man who claims to be a Christian, but has never felt sorry for anything that he's ever done in his entire life. Who routinely threatens violence, jail, or prosecution, against people for simply disagreeing with him. Who now takes that even a step further by demanding an apology from a Bishop, because she voiced her concern for the public welfare of people who are very vulnerable now that Mr. Trump is President again and expressed those concerns to him directly and in person. 

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