‘I’m Getting a Lot of Hate’: 9-Year-Old Arizona Girl Went with Her Parents to Get Donald Trump Neck Tattoo, Artist Sparks Outrage After Inking Something Completely Different

A Yuma, Arizona, tattoo artist is catching heat for inking a 9-year-old girl with an American flag. But the co-owner of Black Onyx Empire Tattoo, who goes by the mononym Sosa, said he did everything he could to discourage the parents, who brought the little girl from out of state to his shop last year hoping to get a tattoo of Donald Trump on her neck. (Credit: Black Onyx Empire Instagram) Instead of the usual $80 fee, he charged them $500 hoping to “scare” them away,” he said. But the parents, and their little girl, were determined. Sosa said he was at least able to talk them out of the Trump stamp, telling the girl if she still wanted the president-elect a year later to be engraved on her body for eternity, he would do it. Last week, the little girl, now 10, returned to the parlor and said she had changed her mind about the Trump ink. She did request a touch-up of her flag tattoo. Sosa shared the story on Instagram and was met with a torrent of disapproval. “I’m getting a lot of hate from it,” he told the CBS affiliate in Yuma. My employees are getting...