Trump says ex-FBI Director James Comey’s ’86 47′ post called for his ‘assassination’ | 16 May 2025 | President Trump slammed his former FBI director, James Comey, for posting a coded photo that he said called for his assassination. “He knew exactly what that meant. A child knows what that meant…That meant ‘assassination,'” Trump said in an interview with Bret Baier on Friday. Comey had posted a picture Thursday of seashells formed in the shape of “86 47” — a message that could be interpreted as “eliminating” him, since he’s the 47th president. One Webster’s Dictionary definition of “eighty-six” says the term means “to get rid of.”