Making a Protest Sign

With all the horrors happening now, I felt we just had to go out and join the protests happening across the country. We marched for Science in 2017.  I think my cousins on Kauai have gone to every one.

When I was at my physical therapy session for vertigo, my therapist whose mother was also a teacher had already made a couple of signs and were going to protest along with his dad. My therapist's brother was in the Navy who had been deployed to the middle east.

Anyway... I won't go into all the junk that's been happening. You already know. 

But I needed a sign. And my mind was a blank.

I looked online and there were so many wonderful, clever, ingenious ideas.

I liked the IMPEACH TRUMP sign.

But the more I thought about it, he's already been impeached and it didn't work.

Then I saw that DUMP TRUMP sign and I loved it. 

As far as I'm concerned, he is a piece of heartless garbage that thinks only of himself and putting his name everywhere.

We were worried about our fighter pilot who'd gone into Iran to drop bombs.

Are we just ignoring the report that at least 168 to 175 people, predominantly school children aged 7 to 12, were killed in a U.S. strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' elementary school in Minab, Iran, on February 28, 2026. 

They're thinking it was a mistake due to old information.

Uh oh... I'm getting distracted again. Arrgh...

OK, I'm liking the DUMP TRUMP so I asked my brother with the fine arts degree for help. He came up with this and he said that for $20.86 I could have a 20" x 30" sign printed.

But where's the fun in that?

He warned me that it would cost more in supplies to make a "clean" poster by hand. 😕

OK, he did help me anyway. He made the words, stars and Trump caricature with his computer.

And this is why I wanted to do it by hand... sort of.

I'd already bought stencils a while back when I first thought about making a sign.

I spaced things out to make sure they would fit.

I only had a tube of orangey red so I added some blue to it to make it the MAGA red.

Then I glued on the stars, Trump caricature and MAGA words.

OK, I got the border done. I wanted a blue border, but my fine arts brother said it needed to be red. Ah well... 

So now... what if it rains? 😲 

Sigh... I ordered a roll of laminating plastic. I'm sure my brother is about to say I'm going to end up paying about $20 for the sign now anyway. 

Now then... what if it's windy? My sign will be flapping too much. 😕 

I got some cardboard and glued the poster onto it.

The laminate arrived and we applied it to the poster. 

I used a kitchen scraper tool to flatten out any bubbles.

And here it is! My wonderful, artistic brother will come and watch over mom while we attend the next protest rally. We already have good friends who will come along to join the cause.

Art was watching a video about Henry David Thoreau and was reminded about Civil Disobedience. 

I got this from Wikipedia:

"Resistance to Civil Government", also called "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" or "Civil Disobedience", is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should prioritize their conscience over compliance with unjust laws, asserting that passive submission to government authority enables injustice. Thoreau was motivated by his opposition to  slavery and the Mexican–American War (1846–1848), which he viewed as morally and politically objectionable.

And then I saw this photo online. So yup. We'll go to the next protest and join the resistance. I already know our grandchildren would be proud of us.

POSTSCRIPT: Oh gosh! And I know the whole world has now seen this AI generated image that Trump posted on his Truth Social website.... along with his rants against Pope Leo. 

Incredible....

He did take it down later when some of his supporters were angered by it.