As political protest stunts go, this one was hard to miss.

A giant inflatable chicken appeared outside the White House on Wednesday morning. Onlookers who saw the 10-foot-by-30-foot bird with the golden coif on the Ellipse, a park directly south of the White House, had no trouble identifying its human doppelgänger: President Trump.

The chicken was the brainchild of Taran Singh Brar, an artist and documentary filmmaker who lives in Ladera Ranch, Calif.

He said by phone on Thursday that it took four months of planning before he could get permits from the National Park Service to bring his plan to fruition. But it was so worth it, he said.

Mr. Brar, 31, told USA Today that he wanted to make a statement about the president being a “weak and ineffective leader.”