Fans of President Donald Trump are cheering his upcoming appearance at the University of Alabama, but a digital billboard on Birmingham’s Southside makes it clear that his welcome is far from unanimous.

“Molester, felon grabs UA by the diploma,” says the billboard near Vulcan at 20th and 21st Street South.

Trump will deliver a spring commencement address May 1 at Coleman Coliseum.

The poster features an image of the back of Trump’s head and references his civil case where writer E. Jean Carroll accused him of a 1996 sexual assault.

A jury found him liable and awarded Carroll millions in damages. Trump was also convicted on criminal charges in New York of improper use of campaign funds.

“If there were any other president from any party, it should be a point of pride. But this is not any other president that we’ve ever had,” said Joellyn Beckham, one of the message organizers using the name BBD, or Bright Blue Dot.

The poster also alludes to an early controversy from a ‘hot mic’ moment on the Access Hollywood television show when Trump was recorded making crude remarks.

“Yes, there are a lot of people who do want him, but at that school there’s probably an equal number or more who do not want him,” Beckham said. “This will be a stain on the school.”

For several months BBD has sponsored a series of billboards with images and words criticizing Trump, his administration’s sweeping changes, and his political allies including Senators Katie Britt and Tommy Tuberville.

An early BBD poster skewered Britt and urged her action to prevent planned funding cuts at UAB. The message featured a photo of Britt speaking with a raised hand with the caption, “Lip service over public service? Raise your hand.”

Another recent poster illustrated both senators, with Tuberville wearing a Soviet-era Russian hat.

Beckham and others said Trump’s pre-graduation appearance places the state’s flagship school in the same category of conservative private schools such as Liberty University, founded by GOP activist and televangelist Jerry Falwell.

“This is personal. He pretty much besmirches everything he touches here, its policy, the environment or its people,” said Angela McCain, state organizer for Alabama 5051, a national anti-Trump political organization. “He does a lot of mean-spirited things and people you thought were decent have become indecent.”

As a state though, Alabama is squarely ‘Trump Country.” The president carried the state overwhelmingly in each of his three runs for president. Also, Republicans hold every statewide elected seat and maintain a supermajority in the state legislature.

Trump’s speech a day before official graduation exercises is a point of debate around the state and at the university.

The UA Democrats, on social media, slammed the visit, and called Trump an “unpopular, divisive, and authoritarian” president.

“This insult will not go unanswered,” the College Democrats said in the post. “We cannot allow this to happen with our commencement ceremonies.”

More than 21,000 people now signed a Change.org petition opposing Trump’s appearance. The UA Democrats have also opposed the visit.

On the other side, Republicans have cheered on the appearance and pushed hard against Democratic criticism.

“We are honored to welcome the president back to Tuscaloosa and we are proud to attend a university where America first values are dominant and, thanks to our state’s Republican lawmakers, common sense is taught,” a statement from the UA College Republicans reads. “We are disappointed to see the inflammatory reaction from our radical leftist counterparts, the UA College Democrats.”

Still, McCain said the criticisms will not deter her or others from expressing their dismay and disgust over the appearance.

McCain said a protest is planned on campus during Trump’s appearance there.

“We are doing our best to let him know that he is not welcomed anywhere, not even in the deepest red state,” she said. “This man doesn’t respect anybody so why does he deserve anyone else’s respect? He’s a hypocritical, nasty, nasty, human.”