NYC mayor Bill de Blasio seen holding Lady Liberty’s severed head in pro-Trump artist’s banner
A PRO-TRUMP artist unfurled a banner depicting New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio holding the severed head of Lady Liberty, claiming the mayor has turned the city into a “s***hole.”
Scott LoBaido hung the 20-by-30-foot “portrait of the king of a**holes” above the Staten Island expressway at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, according to his .
“Go big or go home! Fux this jackhole!!” LoBaido wrote as part of his caption.
The banner over the expressway’s westbound Exit 13B ramp showed a smiling wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt and holding a bloody Lady Liberty by her crown.
“It’s what he’s doing to New York, he’s severing the head of the greatest on earth,” LoBaido told the on Tuesday.
The artist from Staten Island said his work was motivated by de Blasio’s response to protests in the city, as well as what he considers a lack of leadership.
“New York has turned into a s***hole because of this guy,” LoBaido said.
The artist also claimed that de Blasio “hates the true New Yorkers: police officers, firefighters … people who built this city.”
De Blasio elected to move $1 billion of the New York Police Department’s $6 billion funds to youth initiatives, housing projects and other measures intended to drive crime rates down.
Meanwhile, President has denounced calls from Black Lives Matter activists to defund police departments and threatened to send troops to maintain order on the streets.
The de Blasio banner isn’t the only creative action that the pro-Trump artist has taken.
LoBaido painted a blue line in support of the NYPD outside the 122nd Precinct on Monday that he said “separates anarchy from civilization.”
On the blue line, LoBaido inscribed “DIAAH,” an acronym for “de Blasio is an a**hole,” according to the .
Soon after, however, someone painted “Black Lives Matter” over LoBaido’s blue line.
A 21-year-old college student who only identified herself to as Skylar claimed responsibility for stenciling over the line.
Skylar said the blue line seemed to be done in response to a “Black Lives Matter” mural painted from Borough Hall to the 120th Precinct and that it “didn’t sit right with me.”
“I did it because I love this country and I see the potential in this country, so that’s why I did it,” she said.
LoBaido said his de Blasio banner got support from drivers who honked “like crazy.”
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told LoBaido to take the banner down within an hour-and-a-half on Tuesday—but he is planning to go big again by displaying it at another location.
“This is what I will always continue to do to support our city!!!!!” LoBaido posted in his Instagram story that day.
“Keep the support going.”