Bishop Mariann Budde has responded after Trump’s five word response following her asking him to have mercy on the LGBTQ+ community.Trump was slammed by the bishop in front of everyone during the the sermon on Tuesday 21 January.While attending church on Tuesday as part of his inauguration celebrations, the 78-year-old got roasted by the bishop, Mariann Budde.Many members of the Trump family were in attendance, including Melania, daughter Tiffany and daughter-in-law Lara. As well as VP, J.D Vance.Budde told Trump to show mercy to gay, lesbian and trans people. She also mentioned that immigrants are now frightened under the new administration due to his mass deportation plans.“Mr President, 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. There are gay, lesbian and transgender children in Democratic, Republican and Independent families, some who fear for their lives.“And the people, the people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings, who labour in poultry farms and meat packing plants, who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants and work the night shifts in hospitals – they may not be citizens or have the proper documentation, but the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals.”She asked the president to allow people into the country who are running from war-torn homes and in need of rescue and sanctuary.Both Trump and Vance appeared annoyed at Budde for her choice of words.Now, the president has hit back in a lengthy statement. Taking to Truth Social, he said: “The so-called Bishop who spoke at the National Prayer Service on Tuesday morning was a Radical Left hard line Trump hater. She brought her church into the World of politics in a very ungracious way.”“She was nasty in tone, and not compelling or smart. She failed to mention the large number of illegal migrants that came into our Country and killed people. Many were deposited from jails and mental institutions. It is a giant crime wave that is taking place in the USA.“Apart from her inappropriate statements, the service was a very boring and uninspiring one. She is not very good at her job!”“She and her church owe the public an apology! t.”Budde has since responded in an interview with CNN: “[I was] reminding us all that the people that are frightened in our country, the two groups that I mentioned, are our fellow human beings, and that they have been portrayed all throughout the political campaign in the harshest of lights.“I wanted to counter, as gently as I could, with a reminder of their humanity and their place in our wider community.”The bishop continued: “I was speaking to the president because I felt that he has this moment now where he feels charged and empowered to do what he feels called to do, and I wanted to say there is room for mercy. There is room for a broader compassion.“We don’t need to portray with a broad cloth in the harshest of terms some of the most vulnerable people in our society, who are in fact our neighbors and our friends.”Like this:Like Loading…

Elon Musk’s daughteer Vivian Wilson has responded after her father was accused of doing a ‘Nazi gesture’ during Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration.The 53-year-old was amongst a list of celebrities and tech billionaires in Washington on 20 January in support of President Trump.The 78-year-old was sworn in to the most powerful job in the world yesterday, during which he gave a 30 minute speech, listing what he planned to achieve as the new leader.His big day was tainted, however, by a controversy surrounding Elon Musk after he was accused of doing a ‘Nazi salute’ on stage during the inauguration parade.On top of appearing to make the ‘salute’, the billionaire made many other strange motions.While on stage, he became excited and enthusiastic about the prospect of planting an American flag on Mars. He then thanked the audience for helping secure Trump’s new position and poudned his fists on his chest, before shooting his hand up at an angle, towards the sky.He the turned away from the audience and made the same motion towards the US flag.Speaking to the audience, he said: “My heart goes out to you,”, “It is thanks to you that the future of civilisation is assured.”CNN anchor Erin Burnett said: “Standing ovation for Elon Musk. By far the biggest reception of the day. You saw him come out with that odd-looking salute.” Her co-star Kasie Hunt said that it was a gesture that ‘was evocative of things that we have seen through history’ and ‘not something you typically see at American rallies’.Viewers took to X, Musk’s own platform, to discuss the bizarre action. One person wrote: “Elon Musk just did a Nazi salute on national television.” another said: “THERE’S NO WAY ELON MUSK DID A SIEG HEIL AT TRUMP’S INAUGURATION.”The Anti-Defamation League label a Nazi salute as ‘raising an outstretched right arm with the palm down.’On X, in May 2022, he wrote: “In the past I voted Democrat, because they were (mostly) the kindness party.“But they have become the party of division & hate, so I can no longer support them and will vote Republican. Now, watch their dirty tricks campaign against me unfold…”Alongside the screenshot, an X user wrote: “The salute hoax is just another part of the ‘dirty tricks campaign’.”Quoting a past tweet, he wrote: “Frankly, they need better dirty tricks. The ‘everyone is Hitler’ attack is sooo tired.”Another user begged to ‘retire the calling people a Nazi thing’, which Musk replied “Yeah exactly 🥱”.Now, his 20-year-old daughter has spoken out.Wilson was born with her twin brother by Musk’s first wife, Justine Musk.Without naming her father directly, she tweeted:  “I’m just gonna say let’s call a spade a f**king spade.“Especially if there were two spades done in succession based on the reaction of the first spade.”She added: “I don’t know why y’all are reacting with such vigour, I’m clearly only talking about card suits.“I mean I have ADHD and this was CLEARLY just an accident that people happened to interpret to mean something other than just card suits.“After all, there’s no proof I’m not just talking about card suits. Y’know… people assuming that I’m not just talking about card suits just goes to show how dishonest people/the media can be.“For those who can read between the lines, do y’all understand how f**king easy this is to do? Plausible deniability honey. Just saying.”Like this:Like Loading…

How Donald Trump’s executive order against trans people technically makes every American citizen female.Signed on day one of his presidency, the executive order was signed to ‘defend women from gender ideology extremism and restore biological truth to the federal government’.The order claims ‘ideologues who deny the biological reality of sex’ have ‘used legal and other socially coercive means to permit men to self-identify as women and gain access to intimate single-sex spaces and activities designed for women’.Trump’s order stated: “Accordingly, my Administration will defend women’s rights and protect freedom of conscience by using clear and accurate language and policies that recognize women are biologically female, and men are biologically male.”Defining the terms ‘female’ and ‘male’, the order technically suggests that every human is a female.It states: “Female” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell.”Little throwback to biology class, for those of us who have forgotten.For the first few weeks after conception, all embryos look the same in a state called ‘unisex’.This state is the blueprint for female bodies and it’s not until around six weeks after conception that most people with an XY genotype will grow into a male developmental process.The National Library of Medicine writes:  “All human individuals—whether they have an XX, an XY, or an atypical sex chromosome combination—begin development from the same starting point. During early development the gonads of the fetus remain undifferentiated; that is, all fetal genitalia are the same and are phenotypically female.”People have been discussing the slip up online, with one person writing: “In case you missed it, Trump issued an executive order yesterday declaring all Americans’ gender is determined at the moment of conception. All human zygotes are female at the moment of conception. Donald Trump just created approximately 160 million F2M transgender people,” Another said: “Fun fact, the zygote is coded as female at conception so saying sex is defined at conception like Trumps executive order stats means we’re all assigned female at conception. It takes 6-7 weeks of gestation for sex to determine your assigned gender at birth. Let’s go girls!”Like this:Like Loading…