Day: May 22, 2026

Dear Editor,
No more crazy than Trump saying we’re not at war (!?!) but keeps asking for billions more or said what wasn’t going to cost taxpayers a dime to now expecting us to cough up a billion with a ‘B’ for his Antoinette bulletproof ballroom, along with the millions that billionaires have already donated to curry Trump’s favor, yet won’t stop mass shootings or make our children’s schools any safer that this or any of Trump’s other out of control spending makes any sense.
Whether the craziness with his AI images embarrassing and shaming himself and his obsession with putting his name and face on everything or on one of our most joyful days of the year Trump implodes in an Easter rant with vulgarities in all caps that he does most nights of the week or the absurdity calling affordability a Democratic hoax but rather Trump says our economy is doing ‘great’ when we’re suffering from economic unrest from gas and groceries to inadequate healthcare or says the Epstein files are a hoax while how odd it is those with ties to Epstein hold prominent positions in Trump’s administration and Trump’s former attorney is now running the DOJ that oversees the Epstein investigation. Any of the above can lead one to believe what Trump says is not credible nor can be trusted or believed, some even calling him flat out crazy.
As is his crazy obsession with the Comey seashells one-time post or Instagram that happened over a year ago. Trump has turned it into one big long drawn out head scratching saga about seashells found on a quiet beach in North Caroline arranged in 86 47 to be some kind of scary murder plot to have him killed? A claim that the court throw out for being nonsensical and unjustified but Trump can’t seem to let go of it. A picture of seashells far less threatening than pictures of MAGA supporters holding shotguns wearing hats and holding signs and flags with Bidens face that read 86 46. Not Biden or anyone jumped out of their skin and wanted to prosecute yet Trump and his DOJ did and wants to try again to prosecute and imprison for the benign term ‘86’.
A term my parents used in their restaurant business and I too when it was time to declutter the family garage … to 86 things, to throw out. Not to murder!
And not for nothing but the mafia term to kill someone is to wack not 86 that Trump is trying to use as an excuse to claim there was a threat made on his life. It’s no more ridiculous than thinking children in bunny hats are a national security threat or if someone is of color from another country they eat cats and dogs or if you exercise your First Amendment right you’re a Communist, if you’re not a forever Trumper.
America with obsessions and allegations over the weirdest things. And yes James Comey refused to pledge his loyalty to Trump when FBI director but this is no different than Russia and other authoritarian countries; you’re expected to pledge your loyalty to your leader and something as minute as seashells found in the number 86 can be used as an excuse to have you imprisoned.
Although unprecedented for an American president to be doing all the things Trump is doing but this is still our country and the American spirit is pushing back on the Trump scary seashells saga with many now wearing t-shirts and carrying signs that say 86 47 in retaliation for something that’s no more threatening and scary than my own grandmothers’ sea shell collection when all this is just another one of Trump’s frivolous ways of wasting taxpayers money and just another one of his crazy obsessions.
J.M.