El Paseo business owner Denise Robergé is known to stir up controversy with her signs and has done so again with pro-Trump window designs depicting faces of key Democrats with tape over their mouths, naked mannequins wearing “Make America Great Again” caps and an American flag as the backdrop.

“I consider it an artistic way of expressing with a sense of humor, which is so missing today, my political beliefs,” said Robergé, sitting in the office of her art gallery and jewelry business at 73-995 El Paseo on Thursday morning.

Robergé uses two windows for her displays: in the smallest, two message boards hang over the faces of Democrats. One says “No more lies” and the other, “No socialism.”

The larger window has an American flag, flanked by life-size poster images of President Donald Trump, with an angry expression on his face, raising his fist, and 14 naked female mannequins in front.

Among those offended by the windows is Eileen Stern of Palm Springs, who shops on El Paseo and said she opposes all of it, but especially the one with Trump among the mannequins.

Like many women, Stern said, she was outraged by a video released during his presidential campaign that showed Trump and former “Access Hollywood” host Billy Bush having “an extremely lewd” conversation about women while on a bus on their way to tape an interview.

“So, it infuriates me to see the life-size images of him looking angry in the window with naked women,” Stern said, and it should be “offensive to all women.”

“I will not stand for women to be demeaned like that,” Stern said. “I don’t like young girls seeing that.”

Robergé said the mannequins are not a statement but were used because “I just needed something to put the hats on. We were a clothing store and we had all the old mannequins, so we popped them in the window.”

She insisted, “There’s no real brilliance or extreme thought behind it.”

“If you’re offended by those windows, then I don’t know where you need to go. You should be offended by the trash in L.A. and offended by politicians — conservative and liberal — that do not look after our own people,” Robergé said.

Stern said she understands Robergé’s First Amendment right to free speech and the right to express her political opinions.

For generations, she said, “women have been fighting a battle ... for equality.”

As a liberal, she is also offended by the images of the Democrats.

“I don’t like any of it,” Stern said.

The tape over the mouths of Democrats: “No more lies. That says it all,” Robergé said. “That’s not hard to read. We’re not taking the oxygen away from them.”

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While her display is in support of Trump, Robergé said she has been both — conservative and liberal.

“I’m more for the man that I think will do the best for America,” Robergé said. “It really doesn’t bother me where he comes from or what he wants to call himself.”

She believes Trump is doing a good job.

She offered liberals her window space for two weeks, if they want to create their own display in response — an invitation that appealed to Stern.

“I would have to talk to some people,” Stern said. “But, yeah.”

Robergé has clashed with the city, its business sector, residents and shoppers before, with controversial hand-lettered signs she has posted in her windows and over loud outdoor music she played at a restaurant she once owned. Last year, she filed and then dropped a lawsuit against the city when officials denied her application for a cannabis dispensary on El Paseo.

Stern posted photos of the windows on her Facebook page Wednesday and received dozens of comments agreeing the displays were offensive.

“While the (El Paseo Business) Association recognizes and respects an individual and business owner’s right to free speech, it is in the best interest of the entire El Paseo business district for all of its members to represent themselves in a manner conducive to the first-class shopping, dining, services and experiences for which it is known,” said Patrick Klein, association president and general manager of The Gardens on El Paseo/El Paseo Village.

The complaints against Robergé’s window displays have been voiced at City Hall, as well.

“While many people, including some business owners on El Paseo, have expressed their offense at and opposition to the contents of this shop window, the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and its protections of free speech mean that the city is unable to regulate this type of political expression,” Palm Desert spokesman David Hermann said.

Orange County residents Shirley Peterson and her husband were in town Thursday morning and she stopped to take a photo of the windows.

As a Republican, she said she “was not offended” by the displays. She agreed with the “No socialism” and “No more lies” messages, saying, “I think it is the truth. I’m not looking for socialism. I’m not looking for a free handout” from the government, Peterson said.

If the tables were reversed, however, and the displays were instead of key Republicans and Trump with tape over their mouths, Peterson said that would upset her.

“I would be offended if it was Trump or anybody in his cabinet,” she said.

Desert Sun reporter Sherry Barkas covers the cities of La Quinta, Indian Wells, Rancho Mirage and Palm Desert. She can be reached at sherry.barkas@thedesertsun.com or (760) 778-4694. Follow her on Twitter @TDSsherry