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US President Donald Trump said that Washington Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde “owes” the public an apology and labeled her “nasty” for her statements during her sermon at his inaugural service on Monday.
During the ceremony, Washington’s Episcopal bishop, Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, directly pleaded with Trump to “have mercy” on the LGBTQ+ community and undocumented migrant workers.
Taking to his Truth Social network, Trump said, “The so-called Bishop who spoke at the National Prayer Service on Tuesday morning was a Radical Left hard line Trump hater.”
“She was nasty in tone, and not compelling or smart…. She and her church owe the public an apology!” the US president added without naming Budde.
Who is Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde who made plea to Donald Trump, biography, age, family, husband, children, education, religion and church
65-year-old Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde was born on December 10, 1959. At the University of Rochester, Budde finished her undergraduate studies and graduated in 1982 with a Bachelor of Arts in history with honours.
She graduated from Virginia Theological Seminary with a Master of Divinity in 1989 and a Doctor of Ministry in 2008. She also received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from the same school in May 2012. Mariann is married to Paul Budde and they have two sons, Amos married to Erika and Patrick and the couple also has grandchildren.
Mariaan Edgar Budde is the spiritual leader for 86 Episcopal congregations and ten Episcopal schools in the Columbia district and four Maryland counties and is the first woman to be elected to this position and also serves as the chair of the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation. She had also served as the rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Minneapolis for 18 years before moving to Washington.
Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde career
Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde pleads to President Donald Trump to have mercy amid LGBTQ+ and immigration policies.pic.twitter.com/rNmpjmnd50
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) January 21, 2025
On November 12, 2011, Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde was sworn in as Washington’s ninth bishop in the Washington National Cathedral. She was the rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, for eighteen years prior to being elected as Washington’s first female diocesan bishop.
Gathering up the Fragments: Preaching as Spiritual Practice is written by Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde. Presiding Bishop Michael Curry wrote the foreword to her most recent book, Receiving Jesus: The Way of Love.
Budde denounced the use of tear gas by police and National Guard troops to clear the grounds of St. John’s Episcopal Church, Lafayette Square, in June 2020, during the George Floyd protests in Washington, DC, so that President Donald Trump could pose for a photo op in front of the church, allowing it to be used “as a backdrop for a message antithetical to the teachings of Jesus.”
Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic. pic.twitter.com/igyKzC8dRo
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) January 21, 2025
Bishop Budde informed the president during her 15-minute speech that “you have felt the providential hand of a loving God” and that millions of people trusted him.