Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has been accused of encouraging assassination attempts on President Trump after displaying “8645” in the background of a national television interview Sunday.
Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” the Democratic governor spoke from Lansing, Mich., about her state’s coronavirus restrictions and slammed Trump’s response to the pandemic, all while the digits “8645” in bubble letters were perched by a house plant on a coffee table behind her. The numbers prompted a reaction from one of the Trump campaign’s verified Twitter accounts.
Governor Gretchen Whitmer displayed an "86 45" sign during her TV appearance.
86 can be shorthand for killing someone.
Whitmer is encouraging assassination attempts against President Trump just weeks after someone sent a ricin-laced package to the White House. pic.twitter.com/GzvtrjH40A
— Trump War Room – Text TRUMP to 88022 (@TrumpWarRoom) October 18, 2020
Makes at least as much sense as anything she ahs said. Like those so-called “dog whistles” they attribute to Trump.
I just checked on Amazon and they are advertising “8645 Anti Trump Tshirt T-Shirt” with a description:
> Covert Anti Trump shirt: 86 is slang meaning to get rid of, get out, and 45 represents Donald Trump, 45th president of the USA, POTUS 45
Similar for bumper stickers et al. And it already has used one for sale, so it must have already been around a while.