With Halloween just around the corner – a Connecticut professor chose to decorate his front yard with a scary political message centered around his dislike of Donald Trump.
Dr Matt Warshauer, who teaches American History at Central Connecticut State University, said he started doing lavish politically-themed Halloween displays when the Iraq war started.
This year’s display, he told Fox 61, is named ‘The Trumpian Ship of State,’ and has a giant pirate ship named ‘Constitution’ headed by Captain Donald, who breathes smoke.
With Halloween just around the corner – a Connecticut professor chose to decorate his front yard with a scary political message centered around his dislike of Donald Trump
The ship has a skeletal image of James Comey walking off the ship – the homeowner, Dr Matt Warshauer, said this year’s display is named ‘The Trumpian Ship of State’
Dr Matt Warshauer, who teaches American History at Central Connecticut State University, said he started doing lavish politically-themed Halloween displays when the Iraq war started, and decided to do this year’s display as a pirate ship because Trump and his cabinet are ‘pirates who are pillaging this country’
Walking the plank on the ship is a skeleton portrayed as ex-FBI director James Comey, and behind him is a child with a DACA sign who looks like he is about to be thrown off the ship.
‘As a historian, one of my goals is to always educate people and at least begin conversations,’ Dr Warshauer told Fox.
‘The day after the election last year I thought, the American ship of state has gone horribly off course.
‘It’s a pirate ship because Trump and most of his cabinet and people surrounding him are pirates who are pillaging this country.’
There is also a gravestone with the words ‘Obama’s policies’ – suggesting that this administration has killed all of the former president’s hallmark legislation.
The ship is named Constitution and is captained by a smoke-breathing pirate Donald Trump
Walking the plank on the ship is a skeleton portrayed as ex-FBI director James Comey, and behind him is a child with a DACA sign who looks like he is about to be thrown off the ship
Next to the main ship there is a rowboat with a skeletal Abraham Lincoln depiction – holding a sign that reads ‘What’s become of my party?’
There is also a gravestone with the words ‘Obama’s policies’ – suggesting that this administration has killed all of the former president’s hallmark legislation
Next to the main ship there is a rowboat with a skeletal Abraham Lincoln depiction – holding a sign that reads ‘What’s become of my party?’
He said that is because he doesn’t believe the famed Republican candidate would believe that this is the same political party he was a part of during the abolition of slavery.
Dr Warshauer said he hopes the display gets people talking.
And that’s likely to happen, as it’s already caused mild traffic outside his home and attracted small crowds in the few days since it’s gone up.
‘If it gets people talking and more people are more educated about the ins and outs of what’s going on in our system, I think it’s a great thing,’ passerby Bobby Holloway told Fox.