The Post-Standard is dropping the comic strip Non Sequitur after the artist’s Sunday strip took a hidden profane shot at President Trump.

Sunday’s strip, a takeoff on Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings, contained a hard-to-read message suggesting the president “Go f--- yourself.”

The artist, Wiley Miller, teased his readers about the message in a tweet Sunday: “Some of my sharp-eyed readers have spotted a little Easter egg from Leonardo Bear-Vinci. Can you find it?”

A reader called the wisecrack to The Post-Standard’s attention.

Said Trish LaMonte, vice president of content for The Post-Standard and Syracuse.com: “Mr. Miller made a juvenile and vulgar decision that does not meet our standards for the syndicated content we pay to have in the newspaper and is offensive to our readers, regardless of their political affiliations.”

The comic strip runs daily in The Post-Standard. It’ll take more than a week to get the strip out of the newspaper because the comics pages are produced in advance. The strip will still be there next Sunday.

(Readers: If there’s a strip you’d like us to use in its place, make a recommendation in the comments below this story.)

In a statement quoted in the Dallas Morning News, Miller said it was a mistake.

Miller said he drew the strip about eight weeks ago and didn’t plan to keep the vulgar sentiment, the Dallas newspaper said.

"I now remember that I was particularly aggravated that day about something the president had done or said, and so I lashed out in a rather sophomoric manner as instant therapy," he said, according to the Morning News. "It was NOT intended for public consumption, and I meant to white it out before submitting it, but forgot to. Had I intended to make a statement to be understood by the readers, I would have done so in a more subtle, sophisticated manner."

He didn’t explain why, if he didn’t intend to publish the remark, he called it out to his Twitter following Sunday.

The crude reference eventually was scrubbed in the version of the strip published at GoComics.