May 16th, 2025.

MAGA World is performing over-the-top outrage over a photo former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey posted on Instagram, where he has been teasing a new novel. The image shows shells on a beach

arranged in a popular slogan for opposing President Donald J. Trump, 86, slang for tossing something

away, followed by 47, a reference to Trump's presidency. Using 86 as either a noun or a verb appears to have started

in the restaurant industry in the 1930s to indicate that something was out of stock. It is

a common term used by MAGA itself to refer to getting rid of somebody. Until now.

MAGA voices are insisting that this image was Comey's threat to assassinate the president.

Trump got into the game telling Brett Bayer of the Fox News Channel,

that meant assassination, and it says it loud and clear. He's calling for the assassination of the president.

That's going to be up to Pam and all of the great people. He's a dirty cop.

Trump's reference to Attorney General Pam Bondi and law enforcement paid off.

Yesterday, Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noem said that the Department of Homeland Security and the Secret Service are investigating Comey.

He showed up voluntarily at the FBI headquarters in

Washington, D.C. today for an interview. In the past day, Trump's social media account has also

attacked wildly popular musical icons, Bruce Springsteen, and somewhat out of the blue, Taylor Swift.

Dutifully, media outlets have taken up a lot of oxygen

reporting on Shellgate and Trump's posts about Springsteen and Swift,

pushing other stories out of the news.

In his newsletter today, retired entrepreneur Bill Southworth

tallied the times Trump has grabbed headlines

to distract people from larger stories.

Starting the tally with how Trump's posts about Peanut the Squirrel, the day before the election,

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