"It seemed to others that I was being brave. It felt more like I was being summoned to stand with others who were being brave."

In an interview with TIME, Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde discussed her sermon, which has drawn death threats and prompted Trump to demand an apology

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde made a heartfelt plea to President Donald Trump during a sermon at the National Cathedral Tuesday. Budde, the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, asked the president to “have mercy” on immigrants and LGBTQ children during the National Prayer Service.

The bishop who urged Donald Trump to “have mercy” on immigrant families offered new insight on what made her challenge the incoming president to his face, telling The View hosts that she “was trying to speak a truth that I felt needed to be said.

Mariann Budde on Tuesday at the inaugural prayer service held for President Trump. “The person giving this sermon should be added to the deportation list,” Collins wrote in a post on X with a clip of Budde’s comments.