Thursday, January 23, 2025

The Bishop and the Bully

 
by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist

Tuesday morning at a prayer service in Washington's National Cathedral, an inauguration-related event which featured Donald Trump and JD Vance and their wives sitting in the front pew, the officiating minister cut loose with a plea for basic humanity, something the honored guests were not eager to hear.

Rt. Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, the Episcopal Bishop of Washington, DC, locked eyes with the newly inaugurated President, and made a plea in behalf of literally millions of US residents.  Bishop Budde, in part, said:

"In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy on the people in our country who are scared now.  There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and independent families who fear for their lives."  

The Bishop also made an appeal for the humane treatment of immigrants, saying:

"The people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings;  who labor in poultry farms and meat-packing plants;  who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants and work the night shifts in hospitals, they - they may not be citizens or have the proper documentation.  But the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals.  They pay taxes and are good neighbors."

None of Bishop Budde's sentiments were apparently one's which Trump or Vance wanted to hear, and both looked extremely uncomfortable during the fifteen-minute sermon.

The thin-skinned President with the fragile ego wasted almost no time in attacking the minister over her truth-to-power sermon.  Late that evening in one of his post-midnight Truth Social rants, he referred to her as a "so-called Bishop" and "nasty," a Trump go-to line for any woman in a position of power, and he also described the woman of God as a "Radical Left hard line Trump hater."   Trump demanded an apology from Bishop Budde and her church.  

The Bishop has declined to apologize for her sermon.    

There is no word yet on when her IRS tax audit will begin.

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