According to the newly installed sign, Jefferson Street in the small city of Eagle, on the banks of the Yukon River near the US-Canada border, now goes by another name: “Trump Street.”

The action by one resident—apparently with the approval of the local mayor—inspired others to rename their streets, some as a political protest (Obama Street) and others to honour family members or pets.

David Small, who came up with the idea for Trump Street, stencilling the words onto a small black panel that sits below the Jefferson Street sign, described the president as “God’s right arm.”

With other former presidents being honored with street names in the town, he felt Donald Trump deserved the same treatment.

He told the Anchorage Daily News: “I really believe in the fact that God has big plans for America, big plans, and good plans.”

Small, who has lived in the city of fewer than 100 people for two decades, added: “It is either you are very much for him, or very much against him. Nobody is without an opinion.”

According to the paper, the mayor, Daniel Helmer, justified the change of street names as purely ceremonial (the Jefferson sign still stands), and said it had been requested by the residents of the street.

“‘Jefferson Street’ is still the official street name,” he reportedly wrote. “Any other serious requests for ceremonial street names, with support from the street’s residents, will be considered by the council.”

However other residents took the matter into their own hands, creating street signs such as “One World” and “No Justice No Peace.”

Mary Morris, who has lived in Eagle since 1980, said she made the Obama Street sign but brought it inside each night fearing it would be removed or vandalised.

Jeanne Tatangelo, who has also lived in Eagle for 40 years, said she was “outraged because the city’s business isn’t national business, it is city business.”

“I instantly understood the sign was political signage. It appeared without any input from the community and I knew it was illegal,” she told the Anchorage Daily News.

She said she and other residents sent letters of complaint to the city council but they were unable to have the Trump sign removed—so she renamed her street instead.

“I carefully unscrewed the sign, and instead of living on the corner of Amundson and 8th, for a very short time we lived on the corner of ‘One World’ and ‘No Justice No Peace,’” she said.

Newsweek contacted the mayor of Eagle for comment.