A pro-Trump sign in Maryland is causing a stir in the community due to its graphic language and has some calling for its removal.
The sign, which features a cartoon image of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris superimposed on feces, says, “Don’t blame Trump, you are stuck with these two s—heads.”
“From all your deplorables in Calvert County,” the bottom of the sign reads.
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At least one local Democrat has spoken out against it, voicing concern that young children drive by the sign, which is located near the intersection of Route 4 and Bowie Shop Road in Huntingtown, Maryland.
“It’s just vulgar,” Jeanette Flaim, chairwoman of the Calvert County Democratic Central Committee, said. “Kids are going to school, and they’re going by it every day, and parents are driving their kids. We just don’t think kids should have to see that or parents should have to explain that.”
Board of County Commissioners President Buddy Hance responded to questions about the sign and said the town’s hands are tied due to a Supreme Court ruling in 2015 protecting free speech on billboards.
“There is nothing that we as county government can do for language that’s on a legal sign,” Hance said. “You know this country was built on the foundation of free speech, and sometimes we like what that free speech says, and sometimes we don’t.”
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Flaim said she is hoping a pressure campaign will be effective in getting the sign taken down.
“We have not complained about any other signs,” she said. “It’s this sign we think is, again, damaging to all of us, all of us in Calvert. The GOP, the independents, everybody.”
