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TYRANT: TRUMPs FURY at Bishops Plea to Him For Compassion-People Are Scared
Washington National Cathedral Bishop Calls Out Trump to His Face
Trump PANS National Cathedral Bishops Plea For Compassion Towards Immigrants, LGBTQ People
New York Daily News 22 JAN 2025
Trumps hand visibly shook as he struggled to raise his hand to salute the anthem before National Prayer Service at Washington National Cathedral on Tuesday, 21 Jan, 2025, in Washington, D.C
Donald Trump was angered Tuesday when the bishop of the National Cathedral asked him to have compassion towards scared immigrants and LGBTQ people.
The new president sat grimly in the front row of the pews as Rev. Mariann Budde called on him to have mercy on undocumented immigrants and sexual minorities who were targeted by his hardline Day One blizzard of executive orders.
In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now, said Budde, the Episcopal Bishop of Washington. There are gay, lesbian and transgender children in Democratic, Republican and independent families, some who fear for their lives.
The prelate continued by ticking off a laundry list of crucial jobs and roles that undocumented immigrants play in American society as Trump glowered, flanked by scowling Melania Trump and Vice President JD Vance.
The people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry farms and meatpacking plants, who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants and work the night shifts in hospitals, she said. They may not be citizens or have the proper documentation, but the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals.
Have mercy, Mr. President, on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away, she said. God teaches us that we are to be merciful to the stranger, Budde intoned. For we were all once strangers in this land.
Trump made no secret of his irritation at the contrarian message by the pastor, who was addressing a National Prayer Service on his first full day back in office.
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