Right Rev. Mariann Budde, the spiritual leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, has voiced concern about Trump’s language and conduct for years.

Budde spent 18 years as a rector at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Minneapolis. She asked the president to reconsider his policies on LGBTQ folks, immigrants.

The bishop who publicly urged Donald Trump to “have mercy” on immigrants and LGBTQ people – and was dismissed as “a Radical Left hard line Trump hater” by the president – responded with an appearance,