A plea that probably has little chance.from Trump & Co….What to say at such an occasion?
The daunting task had fallen, in part, on the shoulders of the Right Rev. Mariann Budde, the Episcopal bishop of Washington, who has long expressed concern about Trump’s language and conduct.
She had drafted and redrafted her sermon, she told The Washington Post on Tuesday morning. “It is a tremendous responsibility, one that I take with humility and prayer.” She had listened closely to Trump’s inaugural address the day before, she said. He had painted a grim portrait of a nation in decline, a downward spiral only he could reverse.
Midday Tuesday, Budde ascended the cathedral’s pulpit,the stained-glass windows bathing the nave in multicolored light. She outlined three foundations for unity: honesty, humility and honoring the inherent dignity of every human.
Then she turned to Trump, seated feet away.
“In the name of God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now,” she said.
Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.) heavily criticized statements made by the Right Rev. Mariann Budde
on Tuesday at the inaugural prayer service held for President Trump.
“The person giving this sermon should be added to the deportation list,” Collins wrote in a post on X with a clip of Budde’s comments….
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