Bishop Mariann Budde made a direct plea to President Donald Trump in her homily on Tuesday

NPR's Juana Summers spoke with Bishop Mariann Budde about her homily Tuesday, where she made a plea directly to President Donald Trump.
During a prayer service at Washington's National Cathedral Tuesday, the Episcopal bishop of Washington directly confronted President Trump while he and Vice President J.D. Vance were seated in the front row.
"Let me make one final plea, Mr. President," Bishop Mariann Budde said in her 15-minute sermon. "Millions have put their trust in you. And as you told the nation yesterday, you have felt the providential hand of a loving God. In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now," said Budde, as she appeared to look towards the president.
"There are gay, lesbian and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives."
This came just one day after Trump issued a slate of executive orders, including one which has a section dedicated to "recognizing that women are biologically distinct from men," one that declared a national emergency at the country's southern border and issued several others related to immigration, including one attempting to do away with birthright citizenship.
Trump criticized Budde's remarks, writing after midnight Wednesday morning on his Truth Social platform: "The so-called Bishop who spoke at the National Prayer Service on Tuesday morning was a Radical Left hard line Trump hater."
"She brought her church into the World of politics in a very ungracious way. She was nasty in tone, and not compelling or smart."