Georgia Republican demands Trump deport bishop who preached mercy
Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, a U.S. citizen born in New Jersey, cannot legally be deported
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Georgia Congressman Mike Collins has called for the deportation of the bishop who urged Donald Trump to âhave mercyâ on the LGBTQ+ community and immigrants.
Trumpworld has erupted in the wake of Episcopal Bishop Mariann Buddeâs direct appeal to the president in the inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C on Tuesday, just two days into his second term.
Sharing a clip of the sermon on X, Collins called for Budde to be âadded to the deportation listâ, a day after Trump began signing a deluge of executive orders related to immigration.
âThe person giving this sermon should be added to the deportation list,â the GOP congressman wrote on Tuesday.
Budde was born in New Jersey in 1959 and is a U.S. citizen â therefore, she cannot be deported.
It is not clear how Collins plans for Budde to be deported, nor where she should be deported to. The Independent has contacted his press office for clarification.
Mike Collins, photographed in Georgia's 10th Congressional District republican primary election runoff debatein June 2022, has lashed out at Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde on Tuesdsay (Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. )The Trump and Vance clans sat stony-faced in the front rows of the nave, as the softly-spoken bishop issued her warning.
âIn the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy on the people in our country who are scared now,â Budde said. âThere are gay, lesbian and transgender children in Democratic, Republican and independent families, some who fear for their lives.â
She continued: âThe vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. âI ask you to have mercy, Mr. President, on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away, and that you help those who are fleeing war zones and persecution in their own lands to find compassion and welcome here.â
Upon finishing her sermon, Trump said something to Vance which caused him to shake his head. Leaving the cathedral, reporters asked the president what he made of the service.
âNot too exciting, was it. I didnât think it was a good service. No, they can do much better,â he was recorded saying.
Trump stands near Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde as he attends the National Day of Prayer Service at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington on January 21 (REUTERS)Meanwhile, in a fiery rant on TruthSocial late on Tuesday, Trump wrote that Budde owes âthe publicâ an apology.
âThe so-called Bishop who spoke at the National Prayer Service on Tuesday morning was a Radical Left hard line Trump hater,â Trump wrote on Truth Social. âShe was nasty in tone, and not compelling or smart.... She and her church owe the public an apology!â
Vice President JD Vance is yet to comment on Buddeâs remarks.
Trumpâs attack followed harsh criticism of the bishop from his MAGA faithful earlier in the day.
Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville condemned Buddeâs speech in a Newsmax interview Tuesday.
âFor this Bishop to do this to President Trump after a weekend of⌠talking about God more than ever, talking about how he was spared to give an opportunity maybe to change this country back to something that should be â it just absolutely amazes me how far these people go,â he said on On Newsmaxâs The Todd Starnes Show.
Mariann Budde leads the national prayer service attended by President Donald Trump on Tuesday ( Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved )Fox News hosts also lashed out at Buddeâs comments and swooped to the defence of the president.
âShe made the service about her very own deranged political beliefs with a disgraceful prayer full of fear-mongering and division,â longtime Trump ally and Hannity host, Sean Hannity said.
While Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham, added: âBut rather than a Christian service about God and country, they were forced to listen to the rantings of a lunatic.â
Budde later addressed the controversy in an appearance on CNN, claiming that she was âreminding us all that in the people that are frightened in our countryâ.
She continued: âThe two groups of people that I mentioned are our fellow human beings, and that they have been portrayed all throughout the political campaign, in the harshest of lights.â
Itâs not the first time Budde has spoken out about Trump.
During the George Floyd protests in Washington, D.C in June 2020, she lambasted against the National Guard and policeâs use tear gas to disperse crowds at the St. Johnâs Episcopal Church.
It was to allow for Trump to have a photo op, which the bishop described âas a backdrop for a message antithetical to the teachings of Jesusâ.
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