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President Donald Trump and Vice President Vance looked visibly annoyed as a bishop delivered a liberal leaning political sermon during the prayer service at the National Cathedral. Trump, Vance, and their families attended a service at the church on Tuesday as part of a long-held tradition for newly sworn in leaders.

However, during the service, one bishop’s sermon took a political turn. “There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and independent families. Some fear for their lives,” the bishop claimed, before talking about immigration.

“And the people who pick our crops, clean our office buildings, labor in poultry farms and meat packing plants, who wash the dishes after we eat at restaurants and work the night shifts at hospitals, they may not be citizens, or have the proper documentation, but the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals,” she said.

After the sermon, Trump and Vance looked at each other and shook their heads, appearing to be visibly annoyed. The remarks come just one day after Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States, signing a day one executive orders declaring a national emergency at the border and that there are only two genders: male and female. 

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Washington National Cathedral will host an interfaith Service of Prayer for the Nation on Tuesday 1/21 the day after the presidential inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump.

In this service, the Cathedral will gather with interfaith and ecumenical partners to offer prayers of thanksgiving for our democracy and to seek God’s guidance in the years ahead. President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance are expected to be in attendance.

The Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, the Episcopal bishop of Washington, will preach, and the Cathedral Choir, the Cathedral Contemporary Ensemble, and special guest musicians will provide music as we gather to seek healing, unity and wisdom in the months to come.

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