Reverend Addresses President Trump at Prayer Service, Asks Him to 'Have Mercy' for LGBTQ+ People and Immigrants

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : "In a video shared by the AP, reporters asked Trump, 78, what he thought of the inaugural prayer service.
30% : She said that Trump had "no sense that this was a sacred space to be used for sacred purposes," and the church was "just completely caught off-guard."Before the incident at St. John's, Budde also criticized the president's "racialized rhetoric" after he told four congresswomen of color to "go back" to where they came from, the AP reported.
20% : Following the deadly Capitol riots on Jan. 6, 2021, Budde once again condemned Trump, this time for his role in encouraging the violence.
18% : "Previously, during the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, Budde most notably criticized Trump for his performative photo op, in which he posed with a bible in hand in front of St. John's Episcopal Church while tear gas was being used on peaceful demonstrators.

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