Meet the Owner of Long Island's Trump House, and See Her Newest Decorations

It all started with a single sign on her door month ago.

Now, Eileen Fuscaldo’s Bellmore home is known across the country as “The Trump House.” (Do not call it the “Hillary Haunted House,” though.) A video taken by a postman as he walked by her house went viral last week, garnering millions of views and thousands of comments from people both in support and in opposition to her decorations.

Fuscaldo has spent thousands of dollars on lawn signs, all attacking Clinton. Some are just her face with “liar” or “murderer” written across her forehead. Others are more elaborate. The centerpiece now is a ghost with Clinton’s face on it, holding out its blood-soaked hands over the graves of the four people killed in Benghazi.

“When I decided to go after her and just take her down, that’s when all the signs started coming out on the lawn, and people were responding like crazy,” Fuscaldo, a lifelong Bellmore resident, said.

Her first sign was hung on her door when Ben Carson was still running for president. She thought he was too much of a “nice guy” for the job. The sign was a picture of Carson hugging Mr. Rogers, and read, “Wake up America. We don’t need another neighbor.”

Soon the signs started to criticize the Republican Party in general for not supporting Trump when he became the presumptive nominee. But once Fuscaldo saw that Clinton was going to be the Democratic nominee, she shifted her focus.

Fuscaldo is the first to say that she’s not attacking liberals, though. She voted for Obama eight years ago, she said. And she now supports Trump for some of the same reasons that she first gravitated toward Obama.

“When Trump came down those stairs, and I heard the words he was saying, I understood them for the first time in 54 years,” she said. “I thought, ‘that’s my guy.’ And I was committed to him… I voted for Obama, and I voted for him on his words. He spoke so eloquently. And you wanted to believe that that change was coming and things were going to be better. It didn’t happen for me. But that’s just my opinion. And Trump gave me that same warm, fuzzy feeling, which is why I absolutely started my little journey.”

That journey has taken Fuscaldo to places she never expected to go. Hundreds of people have driven and walked by her house, or stopped to take pictures of and with her signs. She’s had more than 300 people knock on her door and express their support for Trump and what she’s doing.

“I did not start out to be anybody’s movement, and I didn’t start out to have my house that way,” she said. “I was just letting people know how I feel with one stupid sign. But they gravitate now. One woman started getting teary eyed. She said, ‘I feel at home. I’m OK here. I can talk about it. I can’t put anything on my house. I’m too afraid. I can’t believe you have all this stuff in front of your house.’”

With the divisiveness that this election has created, Fuscaldo knows that having the decorations out could make her house a target. But she says the only vandalism that has occurred were some people driving by and shooting paintballs at the signs, which they washed off. There have been some vague threats to destroy the signs, too, but she said she always notifies the police, and they drive by often.

To help keep everything safe, Fuscaldo and her family take all the Hillary signs down at 9:30 every night. As they do, they play Proud To Be An American, Amazing Grace and the National Anthem.

The signs were not put up for Halloween, but were put up gradually over the last few weeks. Whatever you do, though, don’t call Fuscaldo’s home the Hillary House. “I did a Skype call with TMZ, and it was all about the Haunted House Hillary,” Fuscaldo recounted. “And I said, ‘No, no, no. This is a Trump house. Stop saying Hillary.’”

Fuscaldo said she is going to keep the decorations up until Election Day, when she expects Trump will win. But even after the signs come down, she knows she’s made a mark.

“It’s been amazing,” she said. “I told my daughter that we’re living through history. This is a presidential race that will never happen again. We’re kind of a part of it now because of what we did with the house. People will still talk about that house.”

Photos: Alex Costello/Patch