President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance visibly rolled their eyes as the Episcopal bishop of Washington, Mariann Budde,

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde is a prominent figure in the Episcopal Church, serving as the spiritual leader of 86 congregations and ten Episcopal schools across Washington, D.C., an

Budde spent 18 years as a rector at St. Johns Episcopal Church in Minneapolis. She asked the president to reconsider his policies on LGBTQ folks, immigrants.

Trump is mad. This time, in church. While speaking at the National Prayer service in Washington D.C., Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde gave a beautiful speech directly to the president’s face, petitioning him to “have mercy” on immigrants and queer children.

President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance took part in the traditional, post-Inauguration National Prayer Service in Washington, D.C. Tuesday.

Trump rolled out a blueprint to beef up security at the southern border in a series of executive orders that began taking effect soon after his inauguration Monday, making good on his defining political promise to crack down on immigration and marking another wild swing in White House policy on the divisive issue.

Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde is being celebrated as “fearless” and “bold” after pleading with Donald Trump to show Christian mercy to the immigrants he wants to ban from the nation and members of the LGBT+ community he aims to punish.

"In the name of our god, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now," Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde said to President Trump at the inaugural prayer service.

Now that the glitz and excitement of inauguration weekend has come to an end, President Donald Trump has resumed his most cherished pastime: late-night grievance-posting on social media. The first target of his second term in office: the “so-called Bishop” who asked him to have mercy on immigrants and the LGBTQ+ community.

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After all the chaos of Monday’s presidential inauguration and subsequent Trump actions, the most remarkable moment of the second Trump administration so far might be one of near silence. It was also one in which the man who has returned to the center of our politics,