An improperly hung flag on the property of a Wartburg professor has led a Waverly city councilman to question his employment and publicly call for the flag to be taken it down.

Bret Billet, a professor of political science at Wartburg College, allegedly hung a U.S. flag upside-down at his own house on Iowa Street in Waverly, according to Wes Gade, a Waverly city councilman.

Billet told The Courier he had no comment, but did say in an email “this has absolutely nothing to do with my employer Wartburg College.”

Gade, who noted he was a student of Billet’s when Gade attended the college, said he disagreed politically with Billet, whom he termed a “raging liberal Democrat.” He said he hadn’t spoken to Billet but assumed his flag was improperly hung due to his opposition to President Donald Trump.