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I was speaking to the president because I felt that he has this moment now where he feels charged and empowered to do what he feels called to do, and I wanted to say there is room for mercy,
I was looking at the president because I was speaking directly to him,
It was a very muted response,
Budde said of Trump's reaction in an interview on CNN Tuesday As a conservative Episcopalian who supports President Trump and his agenda, I am profoundly disappointed that Bishop Mariann Budde politicized today’s inaugural Service of Prayer for the Nation. By disregarding President Trump’s appointment of Scott Bessent, a brilliant, openly gay man to serve as Treasury Secretary and Elon Musk, a genius, first generation legal immigrant to lead the new Department of Government Efficiency, Bishop Budde’s gratuitous criticisms ring hollow,
Let me make one final plea, Mr. President,
She failed to mention the large number of illegal migrants that came into our Country and killed people,
She is not very good at her job!”
The people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings, who labour in poultry farms and meat-packing plants, who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants and work the night shifts in hospitals, they ... may not be citizens or have the proper documentation, but the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals,
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".
The so-called Bishop who spoke at the National Prayer Service on Tuesday morning was a Radical Left hard line Trump hater,
Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform Not to exciting, was it? I didn't think it was a good service. They could do much better."
Meanwhile, after returning to the White House, Trump was asked about the sermon and to which he responded They can do much better.
He added at the end of his remarks For this bishop to do this to President Trump after a weekend of, as you said, talking about God more than ever, ... talking about how he was spared to give an opportunity maybe to change this country back to something that it should be, it just absolutely amazes me how far these people go.”
In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy on the people in our country who are scared now.”
The vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. They pay taxes, and are good neighbors. They are faithful members of our churches, mosques and synagogues, gurdwara and temples, ... Our God teaches us that we are to be merciful to the stranger, for we were once strangers in this land.”
The person giving this sermon should be added to the deportation list,
The vast majority of immigrants are not criminals,
As a Catholic & legal immigrant, it's outrageous that some woke Bishop would lecture President Tump about deporting illegals. It's an insult to all of us who came to this country the right way. If you don't have borders, then you don't have a country."
Republican Senator Bernie Moreno, in a post to X, formerly Twitter This is exactly right and the immigrants who actually worked their asses off for years to come here LEGALLY, learn English and assimilate into our culture understand it better than anyone else!"
Donald Trump Jr, responding to Moreno And the people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings,
