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 Instagram post.
“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.
Soon after, however, someone painted “Black Lives Matter” over LoBaido’s blue 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.”
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.”