As Twitchy reported earlier, Vice President J.D. Vance's face said it all (Melania Trump's too) when woke Episcopal Bishop Marianne Budde directed her "sermon" directly to President Donald Trump, praying for him to show mercy to all of those transgender children who are scared for their lives as well as the illegal immigrants who pick our crops and clean our offices. It was a bipartisan prayer service, so Budde noted that there are scared gay, lesbian, and transgender children in Democrat, Republican, and Independent households.
Who set this up? ABC News interviewed Budde at an anti-Trump protest (outdoors in a COVID mask) in 2020 and said in no uncertain terms that we needed to replace Trump.
"I've given up speaking to Pres. Trump. We need to replace President Trump."
— ABC News (@ABC) June 3, 2020
Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington talks to @ABC News amid uproar over Pres. Trump's photo op in front of St. John's Church. https://t.co/spHC0q8SWm pic.twitter.com/gq6b7O609W
The media-fueled uproar. This is the one where they claimed police used tear gas to clear a path to the church (they didn't, according to the police themselves) and lied about Trump holding the Bible upside-down.
The pastor who criticized Trump today in 2020:
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) January 21, 2025
"I've given up speaking to President Trump. We need to replace President Trump."pic.twitter.com/7CWJi8k8N7
Do you think she's more than a little bit woke?
Vetting fail.
— News Nomad 🗞 (@The_Nomad_News) January 21, 2025
Yeah, we don't know who picked her to deliver the inaugural prayer. Does she just come with the building?
HUGE vetting mistake
— daledwayer (@daledwayer) January 21, 2025
Recommended
And then she sped off in her Subaru, listening to Natalie Merchant.
— SlayHQ (@SB_1970s_All_In) January 21, 2025
The Episcopal church should be ashamed. They have lost the plot. I left it for the Anglican Church years ago. ✝️
— Tina J Morgan (@TJMWFU) January 21, 2025
The National Cathedral should be ashamed at ambushing the sitting President of the United States with a political message disguised as a prayer service. #zelena #shailenzo #tommavi #helevier #sstvi
— XRPspider (@XRPspider) January 21, 2025
Who selected her to speak today?
— Sue (@SusanK1717) January 21, 2025
That's the big question.
So not a pastor, she’s an activist
— Mike Parrish (@MikeParris39458) January 21, 2025
How does this lady rise to Bishop within the church? The church needs to tend their garden and pull some weeds.
— Randy Jeppesen (@randy_jeppesen) January 21, 2025
She's "given up on President Trump." Why would they have her do the sermon? It was weird.
— MedicUSA (@MedicMaXX) January 21, 2025
On the plus side, she said she'd given up speaking to President Trump, but then was given the opportunity to address him this morning as her president for the next four years.
What kind of advance team does Trump have?
— Silence Dogood 🇺🇸 (@whisper_riot) January 21, 2025
Imagine the difference it would make if this Bishop was focused on helping people develop a relationship with Jesus Christ instead of looking for a worldly solution. Where is the prayer? She needs to go back to the Gospels and study them.
— Kirk Taylor (@KirkTaylorCom) January 21, 2025
Check it out … CNN had her on the phone talking about the same protest:
she's a partisan hackhttps://t.co/uTga1mW8hC
— Dr. Richard Harambe (@Richard_Harambe) January 21, 2025
Wonder who chose her to speak...
— Your Mom Is A Bot (@wsliger) January 21, 2025
Wonder if they still have a job.
***
Join the conversation as a VIP Member