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.

In a lengthy post on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump described the bishop as a “Radical Left hard-line Trump hater” adding that “she brought her church into the World of politics in a ve