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TexasTowelie

(116,744 posts)
Fri Jul 17, 2020, 01:08 AM Jul 2020

Why Hilton Head tourists were told to take down Trump flags from their rental home

A West Virginia family vacationing on Hilton Head Island says they were unfairly targeted for hanging two flags supporting President Donald Trump on their rental home.

The family, staying in the south beach area, said they were asked by Sea Pines Security to remove their flags, which were attached to the rental home’s railings facing the beach.

One of the flags features Trump’s recognizable blue logo with the slogan “Keep America Great.”

The second features Trump’s name and the phrase: “No More Bull----.”

Read more: https://www.islandpacket.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article244188852.html
(Bluffton Island Packet)


A home on Hilton Head Island where a West Virginia family was told by Sea Pines security to remove the Trump flags hanging facing the beach. Submitted to The Island Packet

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Why Hilton Head tourists were told to take down Trump flags from their rental home (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2020 OP
While the family removed the flags from the rented home, they continued to show their support by Demovictory9 Jul 2020 #1
That makes them easily identifiable TexasTowelie Jul 2020 #3
lol. true Demovictory9 Jul 2020 #4
"I think were being singled out because it's Trump flags." dchill Jul 2020 #2
From the link UpInArms Jul 2020 #5
Is it censorship if you're doing it on property you do NOT own?!? bobbieinok Jul 2020 #6
They don't allow any signs, not even real estate signs KelleyKramer Jul 2020 #8
Does anybody really take their political flags with them on vacation? Dem2theMax Jul 2020 #7
Oh yes! We encountered camping at Camp Hatteras in N.C. woodsprite Jul 2020 #9

Demovictory9

(33,752 posts)
1. While the family removed the flags from the rented home, they continued to show their support by
Fri Jul 17, 2020, 01:24 AM
Jul 2020

While the family removed the flags from the rented home, they continued to show their support by carrying them during walks on the Sea Pines beach.

UpInArms

(51,794 posts)
5. From the link
Fri Jul 17, 2020, 03:54 AM
Jul 2020
All signs, including political and real estate signs, are prohibited in Sea Pines. In addition, the community’s rules say “beach accouterments such as towels and bathing suits may not be hung on railing/balconies or any other location where visible from adjoining properties, a golf course, the beach, or the road.”


Am so sick of the culties ...

bobbieinok

(12,858 posts)
6. Is it censorship if you're doing it on property you do NOT own?!?
Fri Jul 17, 2020, 03:57 AM
Jul 2020

Many Americans do NOT understand the concept, IMHO

KelleyKramer

(9,828 posts)
8. They don't allow any signs, not even real estate signs
Fri Jul 17, 2020, 05:11 AM
Jul 2020

They don't even allow hanging beach towels on the railings

In other words, no riff raff or white trash

Those folks should have rented a place at the local trailer park and they would have fit in just fine

Dem2theMax

(10,274 posts)
7. Does anybody really take their political flags with them on vacation?
Fri Jul 17, 2020, 04:11 AM
Jul 2020

How much do you want to bet these people knew this was against the HOA rules, but they did it anyway just to cause trouble.

woodsprite

(12,199 posts)
9. Oh yes! We encountered camping at Camp Hatteras in N.C.
Fri Jul 17, 2020, 07:28 AM
Jul 2020

Trump flags flying on lots of rigs. Pulled in at night. When we backed into our site, we found ourselves surrounded by trump humpers. We stayed 10 days. The guy next to us was kind of an asshole in general.

Checked out their FB page and the campground had posted a pic of someone flying the trump flag, and other people were already complaining about it, also pointed out to campground management that a pic like that could be taken as endorsement and lose some business.

Saw the same type of thing at An Emerald Isle campground In 2016, although not from the rig campers. Someone had put Trump signs on almost all the permanent cabins.

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