GOP attacks bishop for telling Trump to 'have mercy.' Don't tell them about Jesus.

[Zorro]

As a conservative, I have long believed the No. 1 job of an American president is to attack faith leaders who don't fully agree with him, so it was good to see Trump rise to the occasion.

Like many supporters of God-President Donald Trump, I am outraged – sickened, actually – that a so-called bishop would stand up in a so-called church and ask the new president to engage in some weird liberal behavior called “mercy.”

In case you missed it, Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde presided over the inaugural prayer service at Washington’s National Cathedral on Tuesday and directly addressed the president, saying: “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.”

Can you believe a person of the cloth would say something so vicious and extreme? No wonder Trump ran to social media to call Budde "nasty in tone, and not compelling or smart" and write: “The so-called Bishop who spoke at the National Prayer Service on Tuesday morning was a Radical Left hard line Trump hater.”

As a conservative, I have long believed the No. 1 job of an American president is to attack faith leaders who don't fully agree with him, so it was good to see Trump rise to the occasion and go alpha-dog on an actual bishop.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/01/23/trump-response-bishop-budde-fox-news/77881230007/

[niyad]

1. Oh my word, that whole piece was delicious. Thank you.