The day after President Donald Trump was sworn in for his second term, he sat through a supposed religious service that devolved into one Episcopal bishop’s tirade against much of the MAGA movement.

Trump admonished Mariann Edgar Budde after the service ended and again in a social media post seeking an apology on behalf of the American people.

Budde later responded to the backlash by essentially claiming the current political climate forced her to make such patently divisive statements from the pulpit.

As Breitbart reported:

When asked about her comments, Budde said, “I wanted to emphasize respecting the honor and dignity of every human being, basic honesty and humility.”

She added, “What I said and I mean, how could it not be politicized? We’re in a hyper-political climate. One of the things I caution about is the culture of contempt in which we live that immediately rushes to the worst possible interpretations of what people are saying and to put them in categories such as the ones you just described. That’s part of the air we breathe now. I was trying to speak a truth that I felt needed to be said, but to do it as respectful and kind a way as I could. Also to bring other voices into the conversation, which voices that had not been heard in the public space for some time.”

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Budde has been roundly rebuked online by those who felt she misused her position to score some partisan points with her far-left D.C. congregation.

Her response to the controversy came during Wednesday’s episode of ABC’s “The View,” and The Hill provided additional excerpts from her remarks:

Later, Trump wrote in a lengthy Truth Social post that Budde “is bad at her job” and called her service “uninspiring,” “nasty in tone, and not compelling or smart.” She and her church, he wrote, “owe the public an apology.”

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