A Buffalo man has raised the ire of local politicians after setting up a gallows with a noose on his front lawn to show support for Donald Trump.

Egbert Bickley originally flew an upside-down American flag as a sign of the country's distress, but nobody understood the meaning.

About a week ago, he put up the noose, and now he's getting plenty of attention, The Buffalo News reported.

A Trump supporter is getting plenty of attention for putting — and defending — a noose on his Seneca-Babcock lawn https://t.co/WCGu1aQLu9 pic.twitter.com/pDjtxblv3Z — The Buffalo News (@TheBuffaloNews) October 15, 2016

Two Erie County legislators issued a joint statement condemning Bickley's display on Friday, calling it "clearly a racist symbol meant to invoke painful memories of lynching that have scarred the country for centuries."

Masten Councilman Ulysees O. Wingo Sr., who has been protesting police treatment of black Americans, also spoke out against it.

"There is no way that guy didn't intend for that to be racist," Wingo told the News. "He clearly is sending a message that he doesn't value black lives. Who else got hung with nooses in America? He is clearly not valuing black lives."

Bickley, however, has denied that he is racist, and defended his right to hang the noose.

"The noose actually comes along with my stress factor of everything that I'm tolerating with the ignorance that America doesn't want to see," Bickley explained to the News. "I don't want to hang anybody. We're all hanging together, though, is my point."

Next to the noose is a vaguely threatening gravestone decoration that says "your name here." The upside-down flag still flies above the house, and some red, white and blue Trump signs hang from the porch. Bickley has also painted #TrumpMafia on the second floor.

"It's part of the whole package that's symbolizing how I'm upset with the politicians of Western New York, how I'm upset with everybody and what we've become and where I think we're going," Bickley told WBFO-FM.

He said his neighborhood used to be a "great Irish neighborhood," but that now it's turning into "the new East Side." He specifically referenced increased prostitution and heroin use in the area.

Bickley told WBFO that he's received some backlash, including death threats, and that he understands how it might be upsetting to people. But he says "never once did that racial thought come across my mind.

"For everyone to say that, aren't they the problem with racism?" he added.

Bickley isn't the first Trump supporter to employ the noose as a symbol of their support for the GOP candidate. In Minnesota, a supporter hung a noose to ward of thieves who were stealing his Trump lawn signs.

Watch Bickley's interview with the Buffalo News below.