Protesters erected a balloon depicting President Trump Donald John TrumpFederal prosecutor speaks out, says Barr 'has brought shame' on Justice Dept. Former Pence aide: White House staffers discussed Trump refusing to leave office Progressive group buys domain name of Trump's No. 1 Supreme Court pick MORE as a rat in downtown Baltimore on Thursday ahead of his visit to the city, as well as a street sign honoring former President Obama on the town's President Street.

In footage shared online Thursday afternoon, a man named Claude Taylor could be seen inflating the giant rat and helping a man install the “President Barack Obama Barack Hussein ObamaDemocrats ramp up pressure on Lieberman to drop out of Georgia Senate race The Hill's Campaign Report: Biden on Trump: 'He'll leave' l GOP laywers brush off Trump's election remarks l Obama's endorsements Trump pledges to make Juneteenth a federal holiday, designate KKK a terrorist group in pitch to Black voters MORE Ave” street sign.

The #TrumpRat welcomes the GOP House Caucus to Baltimore pic.twitter.com/Oa7nT3W4E1 — Claude Taylor (@TrueFactsStated) September 12, 2019

“We do anti-Trump stuff, including our 14-foot inflatable Trump rat, and this is the most appropriate place that we could bring a Trump rat,” Taylor told The Baltimore Sun in an interview on Thursday.

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Taylor, the founder of Mad Dog PAC, which is committed to getting Trump out of office, said his organization has had the rat balloon for “a little over a year.”

“The rat’s been in Newport Beach, California, on a boat,” he said. “It’s been in the Potomac on a boat. It’s been most notably docked off of Mar-a-Lago.”

The demonstration comes as a number of local groups are expected to hit the streets in Baltimore to protest the president’s visit to the city on Thursday, where he is set to speak at a GOP House retreat.

The visit marks his first time stepping foot in the city since blasting the district as a “very dangerous & filthy place” and its congressman, Rep. Elijah Cummings Elijah Eugene CummingsBlack GOP candidate accuses Behar of wearing black face in heated interview Overnight Health Care: US won't join global coronavirus vaccine initiative | Federal panel lays out initial priorities for COVID-19 vaccine distribution | NIH panel: 'Insufficient data' to show treatment touted by Trump works House Oversight Democrats to subpoena AbbVie in drug pricing probe MORE (D), as a "racist” earlier this year.

A coalition of local groups is planning to hold one protest, titled “Trump out of Baltimore,” according to a Facebook event set up for the demonstration. The groups include ICE Out of Baltimore, Peoples Power Assembly, Youth Against War & Racism, and one referred to as the Baltimore Welcoming Committee.

An organizer behind the planned demonstration, Miranda Bachman, said in a press statement that the “people of Baltimore, especially young people, are deeply opposed to Trump’s policies of racism and division, whether it’s his attacks on migrants or refugees or his not so veiled racist attacks on Black and Brown people.”

As of Thursday afternoon, more than 190 people have signed up to attend the demonstration via Facebook. More than 500 people have indicated interest in the protest.