Pastor tells Trump to 'have mercy' on migrants, transgender children at inaugural service

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

34% : Trump declared the federal government recognizes only male and female as the only gender, reversing protections for transgender people put in place under former President Joe Biden.To carry out his immigration agenda, Trump declared a national emergency at the southern border, ordered the U.S. armed forces to repel "forms of invasion" at the U.S.-Mexico border and sought to end birthright citizenship despite questions whether doing is constitutional.
34% : Trump, asked about the sermon after returning to the White House, said, "Was not too exciting, was it?""They could do much better," Trump said.
32% : "There are gay, lesbian and transgender children in Democratic, Republican and independent families, some who fear for their lives," Budde said, later telling Trump of immigrants, "Our God teaches us that we are to be merciful to the stranger, for we were all once strangers in this land.
30% : "In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now," Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde said during her sermon at the National Cathedral as Trump and Vice President JD Vance watched alongside their families.
28% : "Vance seemed to grimace as the pastor spoke, making glances to his wife Usha Vance and toward Trump, who sat mostly stoically.
26% : She said she was "outraged" in 2020 after Trump walked unannounced to St. John's Episcopal Church ‒ across the street from the White House and part of her diocese ‒ to hold up a Bible during protests following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
22% : Budde has been critical of Trump in the past.

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