Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, who urged Trump to his face this week to have “mercy” on marginalized communities while delivering a sermon following his inauguration, is not at all surprised by his angry reaction. In fact, she fully expected it.
In her sermon to Trump and his vice president JD Vance — with their wives in attendance, an immigrant and the child of immigrants, respectively — Budde asked Trump “to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now,” from immigrants to the LGBTQ+ community.
“There are gay, lesbian and transgender children in Democratic, Republican and independent families, some who fear for their lives,” she said to the group, with Trump and Vance getting visibly more annoyed as she spoke.