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Trump says '86' is a mob term for 'kill him'

newsApr 30, 2026261,470

President Donald Trump told CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins that "86" is a mob term meaning "kill him," saying "86 47 means 'kill President Trump.'" Elie Honig, a former federal prosecutor WHO spent years prosecuting mob families, said he never once heard "86" used to mean killing. Historically, "86" has meant to eject or discard someone or something in restaurants and bars, not to order a killing, so Trump’s use of the term to attack James Comey lacks support from mob-prosecution experts and from common usage.

Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com

COLLINS: Do you really think that Comey was threatening your life with that post? TRUMP: Well if anybody knows anything about crime, they know '86' is a mob term for 'kill 'em.' You ever see the movies?

87412h ago
Joe is Me167

I've watched every mob movie ever made. I have never heard them use 86.

Oeishik 🐸141

And we know how much Donald knows about crime...34 felony convictions isn't child's play.

Middlerage92

What about ENDING A CIVILIZATION. When someone says that in a movie what does it mean????

elroy1313.bsky.social70

I have seen 100 "mob" movies and never once heard 86 used in that context. Maybe that's what he used to say "hey we need to 86 that 12 yr old girl I just raped".

One Liberal Citizen51

So Comey posted that like a year ago but they were so worried they about it they brought a case now? 🤦🏽‍♂️🤡

imchuckmiller.bsky.social43

I asked the “Mob” they said they don’t say “86”

ArtsulSelva38

to be fair he does know a lot about crime

Erik the Rural Juror31

If they never used the term in Goodfellas, then the term doesn't exist.

Seattle Bug18

It’s a diner term for cancelling a sandwich.

Jenny Nougat18

HIs mushy brain is confusing "deep-six" with "86," methinks.

marineblue52.bsky.social17

When both 2026 and 2028 MidTerms arrive this asshole will be singing another tunes...

bgpelaire17

What a fuckin dope. Before narcissism, before frontotemporal dementia, he was a dumb sonofabitch.

Fal Rising13

I’ve only ever heard the term ‘86’ used in restaurants when they are out of food

Fuk-T 📎13

I bet #PedoPres can't name one movie where they use 86 instead of whack.

rava11

Is his jaw in a new location

Luckiiyu🍀🍀🍀10

86’d means your kicked out you can’t drink here anymore! It’s not a mob term. 🙄

Charlotte Brooks🏳️‍🌈/夏黎 (夏洛特布魯克斯)8

Guy apparently never watched Get Smart

David Seibert8

A pathetic excuse for a person, much less a president.

Mama Nichols8

He knows far too much about crime. He's a mobster. I've never seen a film that used this term.

jhudson84.bsky.social7

You’d think someone who runs the country like a wannabe mob boss would have a stronger grasp on mob terminology.

Kavi Kat 🌬️7

I learned it waitressing the kitchen staff would yell it out all the time. Was I supposed to be scared❔

Hysterical Raisins6

What innocent interpretation is there for "Hang Mke Pence?" I don't think the garbage people he pardoned were referring to putting up pictures of him on their living room walls.

donnayoungdc6

"He tried to help Hillary Clinton." WHAT??? It was Comey who helped Trump in 2016 when he announcing 11 days before the election the FBI was reopening the investigation into Clinton's email server. Trump KNOWS that's why he won in 2016, though @hillaryclinton.bsky.social hugely WON the popular vote.

The Dad Pat Ryan5

Narrator: Unfortunately, Trump himself had never seen a movie.

nancyginga.bsky.social5

Yeah, that’s not going to fly at a trial.

Eric Young5

Yeah, super genius cracked the service industry code word. We weren't really out of anything, we were in the kitchen murdering that entree.

EC4

Well - if anyone knows about the mob…

BB4

And did she ask the appropriate follow up question: “so you were threatening President Biden’s life when you reposted a picture of him bound and gagged with the caption 86 46 when you were a private citizen?”

Sandy4

According to the New York Herald Tribune (1941), soda jerks used "86" as a noun to mean an item was out of stock. It likely became a way for chefs to "nix" (rhyming with eighty-six) or cancel an order per Merriam-Webster

Not on the LIST4

Everything in the movies is real.

CLJohnson4

Ask him which movie has the Mob using '86.' He is fabricating...or just simply confused.

Paul Tyreman 〓〓4

I seen the movies. Never heard that expression used in that way (or any other way).

sallybrown.bsky.social4

This is great — for Comey’s lawyer.

Paula 🫘4

Interesting that our first mob boss president would point that out. Talk about judging people by your own standards

Unkle Yuk ❌👑4

How about a follow up question “Ok then, give us a single example of that term being used in that way in any mob movie.”

DGM3

Trump: “I found a horse’s severed head in my bed. Do you know what that means? I don’t like horses. I liked that horse though. He was fast when his head was still attached.”

Rooster 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦🇲🇽🇺🇸🐸💙3

“I Wasn’t Involved.” He was Involved.

Al Stewart3

anyone having fish for dinner?

Kellum Dander3

he's never worked in a restaurant

Chrisby3

Does he make that up or does someone tell him this crap? Someone needs to look up the meaning of 86. And remind them that they did that to Biden. 8646. No one was investigated or arrests. Amazon sells those t-shirts. So - arrest and indict Bezos? Or the t-shirt makers?

Musele2

So Pacino and deNiro will be called to the stand. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Diogenes Dog2

Movies are of course, real life

Mike Horan2

Maybe someone can ask the Pedo about this picture that he posted.

Half-ass Matt2

No, it's not. Fucking idiot.

Detroit Diva2

In the restaurant world it means to cancel an order In politics it means to remove from office "Government instructs the jury to assume (without evidence) that the former FBI director is a mobster"

Frazzlehead (Lonna Cunningham) (she/her) 🇨🇦2

Anyone who ever worked in a restaurant knows 86 is "take it off the menu, we're out" or "boot that guy, he's trouble." Of course, The Orange Felon would have no clue.

martin_fff2

.. and he knows lots of "mob terms"...

Civilization2

This fat fck is as dumb as he looks,. unbelievable.

Sandy2

At work "86" meant 'to bin something' or 'toss it' in the trash depending on your local vernacular.

Tucson Connie2

At 77, I heard '86' the entire time I was growing up. The context was around being told to leave a bar, usually after becoming belligerent. I can't remember how many times I heard someone say they (or another) were 86'd from a bar for whatever reason. I'd even been 86'd a few times, i.e., removed.

baconspecial.bsky.social2

No. There's no mob slang for "86" in common use. We all want Trump removed from office because he is mentality defective and unruly. Like a drunk restaurant patron that is usually 86'ed.

Hysterical Raisins2

Doesn't this orange blob own restaurants (shitty ones, I know, but even so), and doesn't he know that '86' means to get rid of a particular dish, not kill it?

landon2

i still don't understand, why he is allowed to say dumb shit like this and not a single person in the room responds with 'name a single movie that uses 86 as code for murder' -- nobody ever calls him out on anything. not even the dumb unimportant shit.

huskydawg72.bsky.social2

Truly the most shallow human being.

Jenni (she/her)2

If anyone knew about the mob, it would be trump

Brian Burwell2

Do you know what's an even clearer phrase for "kill 'em?" "with nine barrels shooting at her." #ArrestTrump bsky.app/profile/bria...

The Bulwark
@thebulwark.com

Trump: "'86' is a mob term for 'kill 'em.' You ever see the movies? '86 him,' the mobster says to one of his wonderful associates. '86 him,' that means kill him. I think of it as a mob term." Collins: "Do you really think your life was in danger?" Trump: "Probably."

12111h ago
Voted for joy and we ended up with this36

It's a restaurant term. I've used it thousands of times. Only a wannabe mob boss who watches too much television would believe otherwise.

MonkeyDavid 🇺🇦22

All the restaurant GMs out there: “Wait, was I telling my staff to kill that drunk customer?”

Darwin Woodka17

Trump is a well known fucking liar

ReMona Lisa -News Reader-10

He'd know all about "mob terms". He's a fucking criminal.

BrichTimp6

Trump is a wannabe Mobster, but his big lying mouth and feeble brain would have seen him 'demised' from the mob. When you 86 someone out of the service, you send them packing....not in a coffin.

BeachBumer5

When I said “86 broccoli” in a restaurant kitchen, I wasn’t say murder it.

Phoukaco4

I have never heard, nor read, or seen any evidence that "86" is mob-speak for "kill 'em". He can "think of it" any way he wants, but that isn't reality. It doesn't make it true. The lengths these idiots will go to try to rationalize a ridiculous personal vendetta by their king is astounding.

Michael Sicowitz4

It means when a restaurant is out of cheeseburgers and Pepsi

Adam4

No. It is not. He can think of it as whatever he wants no. It never stands for murder. It stands for a canceled restaurant order.

BonBon🤌3

What? What mob movie did they say that in?

zoophagous.bsky.social3

So the administration took over a year to act on a threat they thought was real? They're really incompetent.

FrankMCook2

We all know that 86 is a restaurant term for removing an item they are out of from the menu.

pharmboy81.bsky.social2

And that's why he thinks "86" means to murder, because of its ties to mafia myth culture. No surprises there.

donnayoungdc2

"He tried to help Hillary Clinton." WHAT??? It was Comey who helped Trump in 2016 when he announcing 11 days before the election the FBI was reopening the investigation into Clinton's email server. Trump KNOWS that's why he won in 2016, though @hillaryclinton.bsky.social hugely WON the popular vote.

Sharon Manna, smug EV owner2

The Artemis II team looks thrilled to be there.

angie5967.bsky.social2

I think McDonald’s is 86ing him just fine.

Mark Chadbourn
@chadbourn.bsky.social

Reporter: “Do you really think James Comey was threatening your life?” Trump: “86 is a mob term that means “kill them.””

7211h ago
Mark Chadbourn52

Trump: “Comey is a dirty cop."

Sagittarius A*14

why do you know mob terms

larelli12

It’s a restaurant term for gods sake!

Helen Bailey10

His endless whining and self pitying drivel 86 means eject, reject, send it back It’s in the dictionary Could he be more pathetic www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/e...

Guy 🏳️‍🌈5

A mob term? He would know.

New Level of Hell 🦚5

Trump knows more about the mob than he does about restaurant work.

Michael Hale4

I think Gramps Trump is likely thinking of “deep six.”

Colette3

Hahaha. You're not on the menu, trump. No one wants to order you. Silly man.

sk8rbelle.bsky.social3

I’m not a mobster so to me, 86’d has always meant “to be kicked out of “as in “86’d from the bar” equals no longer allowed to go in that bar or got kicked out on that occasion. I suppose mobsters have their own language, so pmurt would know if 86’d in mobworld means death by extermination.

Керрі Світ🇺🇦🇨🇦🇩🇰🇪🇺2

Maybe that's what it means to Trump's mob

🦋Rrhae 🇺🇸 I Dissent!🫘 🇺🇦2

Trump would know all about “mob terms.” 😐

Leslie 💙🇺🇸💙2

Um, no..no it’s not. It’s a restaurant term that means an item or ingredient has run out. it could also mean that a patron is unruly and needs to be removed from the premises. Either one would be appropriate in reference to 🍊🤡💩

Netty Bo Betty2

Might be true if Comey had enough seashells to write ”He's sleeping with the fishes” in the sand, but 86 the spaghetti carbonara is a stretch.

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