The reverend who called on President Trump to have mercy on transgender children and immigrants during a prayer service for his inauguration said in a new interview she would not apologize for her remarks. I am not going to apologize for asking for mercy for others, Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde told TIME Magazine in an interview published...

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, who asked that President Trump have mercy on LGBTQ children and immigrants during a prayer service he attended Tuesday morning, said on ABCs The View Wednesday she would welcome a one-on-one conversation with Trump. I wanted to emphasize respecting the honor and dignity of every human being, basic honesty and humility,...

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde drew President Trump's ire Wednesday morning after she used a National Catheral prayer service to issue a call for mercy against members of the LGBTQ and immigrant communities. The so-called Bishop who spoke at the National Prayer Service on Tuesday morning was a Radical Left hard line Trump hater. She brought...

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde drew President Trump's ire Wednesday morning after she used a National Catheral prayer service to issue a call for mercy against members of the LGBTQ and immigrant communities. The so-called Bishop who spoke at the National Prayer Service on Tuesday morning was a Radical Left hard line Trump hater. She brought...

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde called on President Trump to have mercy on transgender children and immigrant families at a National Cathedral prayer service for the inauguration Tuesday, which went viral and prompted the president to call her nasty in tone and not compelling or smart. I ask you to have mercy upon the people in...

The bishop who publicly urged Donald Trump to “have mercy” on immigrants and LGBTQ people – and was dismissed as “a Radical Left hard line Trump hater” by the president – responded with an appearance, remotely, on ABC’s The View today, giving a full-throated plea for “unity.” Introduced by moderator Joy Behar (Whoopi Goldberg is […]

The return of Donald Trump is readily evident today with reporters once again waking up to an angry presidential social media post, this time over a moment that went viral. On Tuesday, at an inauguration prayer service at Washington National Cathedral, Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde confronted Trump during her sermon, “In the name of our […]

Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde claimed on Tuesday that she felt obligated to stand “counter” to President Donald Trump. Budde made an appearance on CNN just hours after she’d used the pulpit at an inaugural prayer service to scold Trump for failing to embrace radical gender ideology and unchecked illegal immigration where she ...

Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde said on Wednesday that she had not politicized her remarks during the inaugural prayer service one day prior, instead claiming that everyone else had politicized what she said. Budde, who used the prayer service and her position at the pulpit to effectively scold President Donald Trump and other Republicans for ...