President Donald Trump gives his inaugural address during the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, Pool)
President Donald Trump gives his inaugural address during the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, Pool) Credit: Julia Demaree Nikhinson

Honestly, if you simply preached the Gospel to Donald Trump and made him listen, he’d be outraged. All that stuff about loving your enemies, the last shall be the first, and rich men having a hard time getting into heaven? “Radical ideology.”

And of course his scuttling little lapdogs like Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson would rush to denounce whoever it was who said it.

I’d say Bishop Mariann Budde was in good company.

Peter Scotto

South Hadley