Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, recently held a Halloween parade featuring a controversial float depicting President Donald J. Trump leading Kamala Harris in chains. The float included a person wearing a Trump mask riding in a golf cart with a fake sniper rifle attached, leading another individual dressed as Harris, with wrists bound by chains or ropes, trailing behind.
The Democrat mayor of Mount Pleasant, Diane Bailey, expressed her dismay at the display—despite her own city’s fire department approving the float. Additionally, the Pittsburgh chapter of the NAACP condemned the float, with President Daylon Davis stating that the portrayal was a harmful symbol reflecting a painful history. However, like Bailey, Davis avoided acknowledging it was a city entity in the Democrat-run locality that approved float.
The Mount Pleasant Volunteer Fire Department, which organized the parade, issued a formal apology for the float. “We, the members of the Mount Pleasant Volunteer Fire Department, want to take a moment to sincerely apologize for allowing the offensive participants to take part in the Mount Pleasant Annual Halloween Parade last evening,” the fire department said in a statement, continuing: “We do not share in the values represented by those participants, and we understand how it may have hurt or offended members of our community.”
Come on MOUNT PLEASANT, Pa, how did the city approve this?
Halloween float depicting Donald Trump leading Kamala Harris in chains! pic.twitter.com/eIHyxup28p
— JustVent (@JustVent6) November 1, 2024