Trump calls Washington bishop ‘nasty’ after criticism from cathedral pulpit
The US president was forced to sit through a sermon by a bishop who begged him to have ‘mercy’ on gays and poor immigrants
Donald Trump on Wednesday called a Washington bishop “nasty” and demanded an apology, after she told the US president from the pulpit that he was sowing fear among the country’s immigrants and LGBTQ people.
“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.
“She brought her church into the World of politics in a very ungracious way. She was nasty in tone, and not compelling or smart,” wrote Trump, after attending a service at the Washington National Cathedral given by Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington.
Trump issued measures Monday, after being sworn in as president for the second time, to suspend the arrival of asylum seekers and expel migrants in the country illegally.
He also decreed that only two sexes – male and female, but not transgender – will be recognised.
On Tuesday, the new president sat grimly in the front row of the cathedral as Budde from the pulpit called on him to “have mercy” on undocumented immigrants and sexual minorities who were targeted by his hardline day one blizzard of executive orders.
