MSNBC commentator Joy Reid was not a fan of Reverend Lorenzo Sewell’s benediction at Donald Trump’s inauguration from Monday (Jan. 20). Reid described Sewell’s remarks as “over the top” and “quite performative.” “I’m not sure what the point was,” she noted of the prayer, which she referred to as a “speech.”

Rev. Lorenzo Sewell, senior pastor of 180 Church in Detroit, will deliver one of the benedictions at Donald Trump’s inauguration.

The Rev. Lorenzo Sewell, who heads a Detroit church, invoked the words of Martin Luther King Jr. in his benediction at Trump's inauguration.