Bishop lectures stony-faced Trump in church

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Story by AFP (21 Jan 2025)

Donald Trump was forced Tuesday to sit through a sermon by a bishop begging him to have "mercy" on gays and poor immigrants as the Republican celebrated the start to his second term as US president.

Trump scowled as the Washington National Cathedral's Mariann Edgar Budde pleaded the case from the pulpit for LGBT people and illegal migrants -- two groups that Trump targeted with executive orders within hours of being sworn in on Monday.

Trump had gone to the traditional presidential service to commemorate his inauguration and was clearly not expecting the criticism.

"I ask you to have mercy, Mr President," the bishop said softly, evoking the "fear" that she said is felt across the country.

"There are gay and lesbian and transgender children in Democratic, Republican and independent families," she said.

"The people who pick our farms 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 may not be citizens or have the proper documentation," she said.

An unsmiling Trump, who sat in the first pew, looked back at Budde and sometimes away. His family and Vice President JD Vance seemed similarly surprised and displeased at the intervention.

Asked later by a reporter for his reaction, Trump said: "I didn't think it was a good service."

"They could do much better."

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If you aren't going to listen to the message, why go to the sermon?

Love always -- Jessica Rose

Henry VIII said the same thing in the UK. Look how history remembers him.

Quote from: Jessica_Rose on January 21, 2025, 02:35:59 PMIf you aren't going to listen to the message, why go to the sermon?

It's all about appearances. He looked bored during the Inauguration Ceremony and the many prayers by different denominations. He just wanted to get on with it to hurry and start signing his Executive Orders.

Quote from: Lori Dee on January 21, 2025, 02:53:47 PMIf you aren't going to listen to the message, why go to the sermon?

Because from what I can gather he said God saved him and gave him some kind of divine mandate. Because that's just how big this dude's ego is. Except his idea of faith, and everyone else's idea of faith, are two different things. To him, Faith is someone you can pay to keep quiet about a sordid affair.

Quote from: Sephirah on January 21, 2025, 03:04:39 PMhe said God saved him and gave him some kind of divine mandate.

He believes it and so do his cult followers (including my parents).

They refuse to see what he is actually doing. They are a bunch of sheeple.

Quote from: Lori Dee on January 21, 2025, 03:12:27 PMHe believes it and so do his cult followers (including my parents).

They refuse to see what he is actually doing. They are a bunch of sheeple.

Yeah someone else spouted all this stuff way back in the 1930s. We all know what happened to him. And to people who says he isn't a Hitler fanboi, just look at the dude. Listen to him. Even that unhinged rich dude Musk was pictured giving a Nazi salute. How much more proof do you need.

You sacrificed millions of lives almost a century ago fighting against someone like Trump... now you vote him in. The old saying "People who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it" never held more true. Your wage packet isn't worth more than a person's life. And if it is... shame on you.

Just to offer a counterpoint. I'd like to give all you US folks JFKs inauguration speech. Listen to this, and then wonder why we in the UK have gifted the US an acre of land sovereign to you, as a memorial to him. And why the world loved him. Then listen again to your orange messiah. And tell me you don't feel a little bit grubby.



Utterly different quality of person.