​It started out as a joke, but an online petition to rename the street outside Trump Tower after former President Barack Obama has amassed nearly 100,000 signatures.

The petition on MoveOn.org seeks to rename the stretch of Fifth Avenue from 56th Street to 57th Street “President Barack H. Obama Avenue.”

“I honestly started it as a joke,” 56-year-old Elizabeth Rowin told Newsweek. “I saw a comedian joke about how it would make Trump so mad if it was named after former President Obama and thought, why not?”

She said she contacted the New York City Council and some members told her that if she got enough signatures, they would look into the matter.

If the effort proves successful, Trump Tower’s 725 Fifth Ave. address would become 725 Barack H. Obama Ave.

Rowin said Obama deserves credit for taking out 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden and for helping the country recover from the Great Recession.

One problem that has arisen over renaming the street in front of Trump’s Manhattan skyscraper if that Obama is still alive and regulations require that honorees be dead for two years before they can be considered.

Rowin said she thinks an exception can be made.

“I am sure the conditions can be changed, there are two streets in LA named after former President Obama. These laws are arbitrary and can be worked around,” she said.

As of Wednesday morning, 93,794 people had signed the petition.