Bishop Who Called for Trump to Be Replaced Delivers Woke Sermon on Illegal Immigrants, LGBT Issues at National Prayer Service

A Democratic bishop asked President Trump to have “mercy” on migrants as he sat in the audience during a National Prayer Service on Tuesday — and the commander in chief was not amused.

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The Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde — the Episcopal bishop of DC who has a long history of publicly criticizing the president — called out Trump directly in her sermon as he sat in the front row of the Washington National Cathedral, asking him to go easy on illegal migrants, refugees and members of the LBGT community.

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“And the people, 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 they may not be citizens or have the proper documentation,” said Budde {snip}

“But the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals,” Budde said, noting that her “plea” was directly aimed at Trump.

“I ask you to have mercy, Mr. President, on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away, and that you help those who are fleeing war zones and persecution in their own lands to find compassion and welcome here. Our God teaches us that we are to be merciful to the stranger, for we will all want strangers in this land.”

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In 2020 during the George Floyd riots, Budde said she had “given up” trying to speak to Trump and proposed that the country needs to “replace” him.

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