FLEMINGTON, N.J. (1010 WINS) -- A New Jersey mayor drew the ire of state Republican leaders by calling President Donald Trump an "orange monster with COVID" and asking his supporters to unfriend her on Facebook.
Flemington Mayor Betsy Driver, a Democrat, wrote a post on her personal Facebook page after Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito last week urged the court to reconsider its decision to allow same-sex marriage.
"This is day one of the new SCOTUS term — the religious zealots want to enact the Christian version of Sharia law," Driver wrote in the post, which TAPinto Flemington/Raritan screen-grabbed.
"If you voted for the orange monster with COVID, go f--- yourself," she added. "If you plan on voting for him again, unfriend me and go f--- yourself again."
Driver, who has openly discussed being intersex, has a wife and two teenage boys, according to a bio on the Borough of Flemington's website.
After Driver wrote the now-deleted post, New Jersey Republican Party Chairman Doug Steinhardt asked her to apologize, calling her remarks "bigoted and hateful."
"President Trump earned nearly 43 percent of the vote amongst Mayor Driver's constituents," he said in a statement. "I think we all know she will never step down, but is it too much to ask for her to apologize?"
Hunterdon GOP chairman Gabe Plumer, meanwhile, called on her to resign, maintaining that she does "not represent the people of Flemington, the character of Hunterdon County, and the values of at least a part of the Democrat party."
1010 WINS has reached out to the Borough of Flemington for comment.
