He also decreed that only two sexes – male and female, but not transgender – will be recognised.
Budde told an unsmiling Trump, who was seated in the church’s front pew for the customary inaugural service next to his wife Melania: “I ask you to have mercy, Mr President.”
Asked what he thought about her remarks, Trump earlier said: “I didn’t think it was a good service.”
But in his Truth Social post, the President slammed Budde, without naming her, and railed against “illegal migrants”: “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!”
- Agence France-Presse
