'Not Going to Apologize': Bishop Who Confronted Trump Speaks Out

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : In his first hours as President, Trump signed an order recognizing "two sexes, male and female," and saying those are set at birth and cannot be changed.
42% : Budde's sermon may have been the only critical words Donald Trump heard during his first full day in office.
37% : 'Not Going to Apologize': Bishop Who Confronted Trump Speaks Out Brian Bennett January 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM President Donald Trump lashed out on Wednesday at the bishop who had delivered a pointed plea directly at him on behalf of immigrants and LGBTQ+ children during a service at the National Cathedral a day earlier.
28% : Trump glared and shifted uncomfortably as she spoke.
27% : She was also critical of Trump in 2020 when he ordered racial justice protestors to be forcibly removed from Lafayette Park and the courtyard of St. John's Church and then posed there for a photo while holding a Bible.
23% : Trump called you a "Radical left hard line Trump hater."
21% : In a post on Truth Social, Trump called the Episcopal Bishop of Washington, Mariann Edgar Budde, a "Radical Left hard line Trump hater" who is "not very good at her job."
20% : I don't hate President Trump.
19% : In an interview with TIME, Budde described her reaction to the blowback and Trump calling her out.
13% : As Trump sat in the first pew of the National Cathedral on Tuesday during a traditional prayer service, Bishop Budde asked Trump "to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now."

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