Michigan auto shop's display of Trump with Obama's head on rope draws outrage

[demmiblue]

FOWLERVILLE — A Livingston County auto shop’s Halloween decorations that depicted President Donald Trump holding former President Barack Obama’s head by a rope has drawn outrage from dozens of people who turned to social media to denounce the display as racist.

Quality Coatings owner Dave Huff has since altered the Trump scarecrow that stands outside his business on Carr Street in Fowlerville, about 10 miles west of Howell. Huff hadn't expected backlash to the decorations because he said he's not racist and "no race ever went into this thing."

"It was a Halloween decoration that I guess went too far," he told the Detroit Free Press on Sunday.

The original display, which he put up three weeks ago, showed a Trump scarecrow holding a black rope with an Obama mask attached to it. Some who criticized the display have said that the rope looked like a noose. Huff said it was meant to represent a spine and a move from the game Mortal Kombat.

It also depicted the Trump scarecrow with his foot on Hillary Clinton's head.

Huff changed the scarecrow Friday, removing the rope and the Obama mask and adding yellow tape that reads, "PC-POLICE."



https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/10/28/michigan-auto-shops-scarecrow-showed-trump-holding-obama-head-on-rope/2478374001/

[exboyfil]

1. I shudder to think about his customers

who think such a ghoulish display screams I want my car serviced there.

Note - I would feel the same if it was reversed as well.

[Johnny2X2X]

2. Racist piece of garbage

This man is a racist piece of garbage, unfortunately in Fowlerville, that will probably help his business. Sickening.

[3catwoman3]

3. Oh, no, not racist at all. Ri-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-ight!

Asshole.