JERSEY CITY -- Is Mana Contemporary the headquarters for the "Never Trump" movement?

The Jersey City art complex, which displayed a naked Donald Trump statue on the roof of one of its buildings near the Holland Tunnel last month, is behind a new billboard from Brazilian artist Sipros that reimagines the GOP presidential nominee as comic-book villain The Joker.

The billboard has an artist's rendering of Trump/The Joker saying, "Dare me" as he readies to set off three grenades attached to the inside his American flag-lined jacket.

The anti-Trump piece, which was installed last week greets motorists headed east on Newark Avenue from Routes 1&9, sits 100 feet above the ground on a Moishe's Self Storage location, part of Moishe Mana's moving-and-storage empire. Mana is also behind Mana Contemporary.

The nude Trump statue, created by anarchist group Indecline, was apparently stolen from its perch atop a Mana-owned building on Monmouth Street days after it appeared there.

Trump was never going to be very popular in a place like Jersey City, where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans nearly eight-to-one. The real-estate mogul didn't do himself any favors when he claimed he saw "thousands and thousands" of people in Jersey City cheering on the 9/11 attacks, a claim that has been widely debunked.

The Republican presidential nominee wasn't always a target of scorn here. The City Council in 2008 contemplated renaming a section of Morgan Street after him (Morgan is named for Revolutionary War hero Brigadier General Daniel Morgan). The measure, intended to celebrate Trump for a two-tower project bearing his name, was shot down by a 6-2 vote. Then-Councilman Bill Gaughan was in favor, saying he thought the move would "help the economy." Mayor Steve Fulop, then the Downtown councilman, voted against it.

"It was never a question," Fulop said then. "It was a war hero on one side and on the other was a developer with a TV show and an interesting haircut."

Moishe Mana is a Democratic donor. Records show he contributed $33,400 to the Democratic National Committee in May.

Trump is in a ferocious contest with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to become the nation's 45th president. Polling averages give Clinton a nearly four-point lead nationally.

Terrence T. McDonald may be reached at tmcdonald@jjournal.com. Follow him on Twitter @terrencemcd. Find The Jersey Journal on Facebook.