Millions of people watched Trump’s inauguration as the 47th President of the United States, in addition to those in America and even outside.
A lecture given at the first prayer service was one of the numerous ceremonies and activities that some people were particularly interested in. A few themes that listeners were surprised to hear at such an event were mentioned in the sermon.
Read on to find out more.
Many were taken aback by the Episcopal bishop Mariann Budde’s speech during Tuesday’s prayer session at Washington’s National Cathedral. She made a couple demands of President Donald Trump directly throughout the lecture.
Bishop Mariann Budde concluded her 15-minute lecture by saying, “Mr. President, let me make one last plea.” “Millions of people have trusted you. You have also experienced the providential hand of a loving God, as you informed the country yesterday. In the name of our God, I beseech you to show mercy to those who are currently afraid in our nation. She seemed to be looking at the president as she spoke.
With reference to the LGBTQIA+ community’s worries about Trump’s government, she stated, “There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some of whom fear for their lives.”
Trump issued a series of executive orders the day before this sermon, including one that called for “recognizing that women are biologically distinct from men,” another that declared a national emergency at the southern border, and several that dealt with immigration, including one that aimed to abolish birthright citizenship.
Budde addressed these directives and pleaded with President Donald Trump throughout her sermon.
The individuals who harvest our crops, clean our office buildings, work in meatpacking plants and poultry farms, clean the dishes after our meals at restaurants, and work night shifts in hospitals could not be citizens or possess the required paperwork. However, the great majority of immigrants do not commit crimes. In her sermon, she stated, “They are good neighbors and pay taxes.”
Budde has previously criticized Trump. When Trump took a picture of her holding a bible outside of a boarded-up St. John’s Episcopal Church in 2020, she made news. People who were protesting for racial justice had been dispersed by law officers using chemical agents. “Everything he has said and done is to inflame violence,” stated Budde in a statement after becoming enraged. He has made every effort to drive a wedge between us, and we need moral leadership.
Republican U.S. Representative Mike Collins of Georgia posted on X, saying, “The person giving this sermon should be added to the deportation list,” while President Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance sat through the sermon in silence and without showing too much emotion.
“I ask you to have mercy, Mr. President,” Budde concluded near the end of her sermon, “on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away.” And that you make this place a compassionate and welcoming place for those who are escaping persecution and violence in their own countries. Since we were all once foreigners in this country, our God instructs us to show mercy to strangers.
Trump later told White House reporters that he “didn’t think it was a good service” when asked about his thoughts on Budde’s sermon.
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