Donald Trump feels threatened by a beach photo

There are probably more offensive than a photo on which a few mussels are shown. James Comey, 64 years old, lawyer and former boss the FBI when he published a corresponding picture on his Instagram account. To see on it: mussels in the sand that trace the numbers “86 47”. “Cool mussel arrangement on my beach walk,” said Comey.

US President Donald Trump, on the other hand, found the picture anything but cool. The arrangement liked the arrangement in the US broadcaster Fox News against Comey and described him as a “dirty cop”. The reason for Trump’s anger is the mussel formation. He is the 47th US President. And what could the number 86 stand for?

“It’s called an assassination attempt. And that loudly and clearly,” said Trump at Fox News. Every child knew that, he said, and accused Comey, “calling for the president’s murder”. This is how US Minister of Homeland Kristi Noem also assesses this: “The former FBI director James Comey, who had fallen unexpectedly, has just called on the murder of President Trump”. , Comey must now “be held accountable with the full hardness of the law”. As a former FBI director and someone who had followed long criminals, he should have known what he was doing.

Comey apparently didn’t know. “It was not clear to me that some people associated these numbers by force” ,. He was “against every violence”, so he deleted the shell post again. Photos of the article still circulate on the net.

According to the dictionaries and the number 86 is a slang term for “throw out”, “get rid of”, “refuse to” refuse to “or” do not use “. Originally, the term may have been used for the first time in newspapers of the 1930s and -40 years. According to this theory, he described drinks or dishes that are no longer available in small shops with counter. At least they think that is likely.

According to the dictionaries, the number was used in the 1950s as a slang term or code word in order to no longer operate and get rid of drunk customers. Later he was also used to describe someone who was to be excluded.

Recently, the number 89 has also been associated with violence and death. The dictionary “Merriam Webster” refers to a corresponding quote from 1991 in the “New York Times”. The official dictionaries have not yet taken up this meaning because it is still very new and is rarely used.

As is well known, Trump does not think of Comey: under the Obama administration, he has headed the FBI domestic secret service since 2013 until Donald Trump fired him in 2017. The reason for a interference in Russia in the 2016 presidential election was an investigation. The FBI under Comey led the investigation. Donald Trump came under pressure, James Comey had to go, special investigator Robert Mueller took over. At that time Trump spoke of a “witch hunt” against him.

The fact that Trump government is now reacting so clearly should have other reasons: Shortly before the end of Trump’s first term, the number “8645” is said to have been seen in the background of the democratic governor Gretchen Whitmer. The Republicans realized that it was a call to violence against Donald Trump.

In the 2024 election campaign, he escaped two attacks: initially in July at a campaign appearance in Pennsylvania. The US judicial authorities also accuse another man of having planned an attack on his golf course in West Palm Beach in Florida in September.