Robin Bell didn’t set out to make a statement on the Trump International Hotel on Monday night. The opportunity presented itself, though, and he took it. The result: for a few minutes, the physical embodiment in D.C. of the president-elect’s unrivaled conflicts of interest shined bright with the words: “Experts Agree: Trump is a Pig.”

“We’re getting ready for a lot of having to fight back against repressive actions,” says Bell, who is also behind an ongoing series of projections in Mount Pleasant that have rejected Subway, cast up rainbows for marriage equality, declared “Fuck Trump,” and stated Black Lives Matter. “We need to motivate people.”

In fact, he and a crew were on Pennsylvania Avenue that night working on an intricate projection for 350.org and the Sierra Club on the front of the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters.

When the groups had asked Bell if he’d be up for creating something in opposition to Myron Ebell, the climate change skeptic that Trump chose to lead the EPA transition team, Bell didn’t hesitate. “That guy is terrible—just tell me when.”

Ebell directs environmental and energy policy at the libertarian Competitive Enterprise Institute, an advocacy group with coal industry ties. He opposes regulations that reduce carbon pollution from power plants, downplays the effects of pesticides, believes that more federal lands should be opened up for logging and oil and gas exploration, and opposed the Paris climate change agreement.

Bell’s projection highlighted those positions and was meant to serve both as public opposition to Ebell’s appointment and a statement of solidarity with EPA employees who are terrified about the future of their agency. It is saying “this person is bad. The other thing is to support the people at the EPA. We need you,” Bell says. “This is batshit crazy.”

And when he turned around and saw the Trump hotel at the Old Post Office building, Bell decided on the spot to add some choice thoughts. He quickly worked up the projection, which is a throwback to a pre-Internet punk meme.

“Experts agree: Trump is a pig” references the late 1980s campaign by the activist group Positive Force declaring the same of Reagan’s attorney general, Edwin Meese. Bell documented the viral protest in a feature film about punk politics. “We’re following in this legacy of badass activism,” he says.

They didn’t run into legal trouble for the Trump projection, or, Bell says, for many of his previous projection protests around D.C. and the country.

“Honestly, we put it up, I started laughing really hard, we took a bunch of photos and videos, and said ‘let’s go home,'” Bell says, estimating that the glowing declaration probably stayed up for between five and 10 minutes. “When we had the projections up and people react to it and people smile and feel like they can do something—that’s the best.”

In a city where the president-elect won a mere 4 percent of the vote and anti-Trump protests have become a daily occurrence, people on the street and on social media cheered the message. It is part of a burgeoning response from D.C.’s artist community, which has included new works and a guerrilla art campaign.

“These fringe alt-right groups have gone from a minority of hateful assholes to having the ear of the president, which is terrifying,” Bell says. “The work that we do is a resistance to that.”