WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Wednesday ripped into the bishop who asked him to show mercy “upon the people in our country who are scared now,” labeling her on Truth Social as a radical “Trump hater” and demanding an apology.

Trump didn’t mention the Right Rev. Mariann Budde, the Episcopal bishop of Washington, by name, but it was clear who he was taking aim at.

“The so-called Bishop who spoke at the National Prayer Service on Tuesday morning was a Radical Left hard line Trump hater,” Trump said in an early-morning post on Truth Social. “She brought her church into the World of politics in a very ungracious way. She was nasty in tone, and not compelling or smart.”

Budde, who has long expressed concern about Trump’s language and conduct, delivered the sermon at the interfaith National Prayer service on Tuesday, a traditional call for unity that has closed inaugural events for nearly a century.

In an interview with The Washington Post, Budde said she had listened closely Monday as Trump painted a grim picture of America in decline in his inaugural address and had drafted and redrafted her sermon.

“It is a tremendous responsibility, one that I take with humility and prayer,” she told The Post.

In her sermon, Budde outlined three foundations for unity: honesty, humility and honoring the inherent dignity of every human. Then she addressed Trump directly.

“In the name of God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now,” she said.

She urged him to show mercy to children who “fear that their parents will be taken away” and to consider the “gay, lesbian, transgender children in Democratic, Republican and independent families, some who fear for their lives.” She asked that he aid people fleeing war zones and persecution.

Trump should show compassion, Budde said, particularly for “the people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry farms and meatpacking plants, who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants and work the night shifts in hospitals.

“The vast majority of immigrants are not criminals,” she said. “They pay taxes and are good neighbors.”

When Trump returned to the White House on Tuesday, he told reporters the prayer service “wasn’t too exciting” and that “they can do much better,” The Hill said.

But in his Truth Social post, he didn’t hold back.

Budde, he wrote, “failed to mention the large number of illegal migrants that came into our Country and killed people. Many were deposited from jails and mental institutions. It is a giant crime wave that is taking place in the USA.”

Trump labeled her comments as “inappropriate statements” and the service as “very boring and uninspiring.”

“She is not very good at her job!” Trump wrote. “She and her church owe the public an apology!”