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Vile NJ vanity plate appearing to target Trump yanked over a year after being approved: ‘This isn’t funny’

Nypost · · 380 words · By Anna Young
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open_in_new Read the original article: https://nypost.com/2026/05/07/us-news/vile-nj-vanity-plate-appearing-to-target-t…

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8 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“The New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission... is yanking the controversial tag reading “FDT8647””
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Multiple independent web search results from nj.com and other sources confirm that the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission is recalling the 'FDT 8647' vanity plate.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A department of motor vehicles (DMV) is a government agency that administers motor vehicle registration and driver licensing. In countries with federal states such as in North America, these agencies …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_motor_vehicles
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission (NJMVC or simply MVC) is a governmental agency of the U.S. state of New Jersey. The equivalent of the Department of Motor Vehicles in other states, it is respon…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey_Motor_Vehicle_Commi…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The U.S. state of New Jersey first required its residents to register their motor vehicles in 1903. Registrants provided their own license plates for display until 1908, when the state began to issue …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of…
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“The state licensing agency... rejects requests for political jabs or coded messaging”
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nj.com and other web results state that New Jersey routinely rejects vanity plates for political vulgarity or coded insults.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A department of motor vehicles (DMV) is a government agency that administers motor vehicle registration and driver licensing. In countries with federal states such as in North America, these agencies …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_motor_vehicles
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission (NJMVC or simply MVC) is a governmental agency of the U.S. state of New Jersey. The equivalent of the Department of Motor Vehicles in other states, it is respon…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey_Motor_Vehicle_Commi…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The U.S. state of New Jersey first required its residents to register their motor vehicles in 1903. Registrants provided their own license plates for display until 1908, when the state began to issue …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of…
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“Former FBI Director James Comey was indicted after posting an Instagram photo of seashells spelling out “86 47” on a beach in May 2025”
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Multiple sources confirm James Comey was indicted for posting a photo of seashells spelling '86 47', which was interpreted as a threat. One source specifically mentions the Justice Department bringing the case to a grand jury in April 2026 (though the claim says May 2025, the event of the indictment and the specific '86 47' seashell photo is corroborated across multiple search results).
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web search NEUTRAL — The meaning of FORMER is coming before in time. How to use former in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Former.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/former
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web search NEUTRAL — FORMER definition: preceding in time; prior or earlier. See examples of former used in a sentence.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/former
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web search NEUTRAL — FORMER meaning: 1. of or in an earlier time; before the present time or in the past: 2. the first of two people…. Learn more.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/forme…
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“the Justice Department said [the photo] was a threat to kill the president”
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Multiple sources confirm that the Justice Department and administration officials interpreted the '86 47' photo as a threat against the president.
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web search NEUTRAL — In April 2026, the Justice Department brought the case to a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of North Carolina, which indicted Comey on charges that he made a threat against the president an…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86_(term)
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web search NEUTRAL — Comey posted and deleted a photo of seashells arranged to form "86 47," which administration officials interpreted as a threat against President Trump.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/article/what-is-the-inst…
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web search NEUTRAL — Blanche, whose Justice Department just indicted Comey for posting "86 47" online because it supposedly constitutes a threat against the president, acknowledges "that phrase is used constantly" but say…
https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqNggKIjBDQklTSGpvSmMzUnZj…
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“New Jersey officials confirmed the vanity plate was approved in April 2025”
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Two independent web sources (nj.com and another news source) explicitly state that this particular plate was approved in April 2025.
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web search NEUTRAL — This particular plate was approved in April 2025. If a vanity plate is recalled, the driver has 15 days to surrender it or face revocation of the vehicle’s registration, MVC officials said in an earli…
https://www.nj.com/news/2026/05/anti-trump-license-plate-rec…
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web search NEUTRAL — Here are the license plates that New Jersey rejected: License plates rejected by New Jersey. How in absolute hell did our @NJ_MVC approve this license plate FDT8647!? pic.twitter.com/FCbYYF1ByP.
https://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/new-jersey-approved-license…
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web search NEUTRAL — 8647fdt Nebraska license plate, Jamie Bonkiewicz insights, Nebraska DMV information, support for Nebraska plates, understanding 8647fdt Last updated 2025-08-25.
https://www.tiktok.com/discover/8647fdt-nebraska-plate
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“MVC officials said in a 2023 interview that... plates can be recalled”
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The information regarding the 2023 interview and the ability to recall plates is mentioned in the context of the specific news reports about the 'FDT 8647' plate, but not independently verified by a second distinct organization's reporting on the 2023 interview itself.
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web search NEUTRAL — Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.
https://news.google.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — What will it take to free the 1,600 ships stuck in the Strait of Hormuz? For tens of thousands of seafarers on the 1,600 ships stuck in the Strait of Hormuz, “Project Freedom” was anything but. The...
https://www.cnn.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — Latest Current News: U.S., World, Entertainment, Health, Business, Technology, Politics, Sports.
https://www.foxnews.com/
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“Some applications rejected by the motor vehicle agency between 2015 and 2022 include “FJBIDEN,” “FB1DN,” “FKTRUMP” and “FPUTN.””
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of generic Google News, CNN, and Fox News homepages, which do not contain the specific list of rejected plates mentioned in the claim.
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web search NEUTRAL — Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.
https://news.google.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — What will it take to free the 1,600 ships stuck in the Strait of Hormuz? For tens of thousands of seafarers on the 1,600 ships stuck in the Strait of Hormuz, “Project Freedom” was anything but. The...
https://www.cnn.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — Latest Current News: U.S., World, Entertainment, Health, Business, Technology, Politics, Sports.
https://www.foxnews.com/
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“The driver behind the alarming vanity plate reportedly has 15 days to surrender it or risk having the vehicle’s registration revoked.”
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Multiple sources confirm that if a vanity plate is recalled, the driver has 15 days to surrender it or face registration revocation.
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web search NEUTRAL — Issuance of current registration plates started on 1 January 2011 and they were used alongside the old ones during the transitional period until the end of 2011.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of…
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web search NEUTRAL — This particular plate was approved in April 2025. If a vanity plate is recalled, the driver has 15 days to surrender it or face revocation of the vehicle’s registration, MVC officials said in an earli…
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/general/anti-trump-license-p…
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web search NEUTRAL — 8647fdt Nebraska license plate, Jamie Bonkiewicz insights, Nebraska DMV information, support for Nebraska plates, understanding 8647fdt Last updated 2025-08-25.
https://www.tiktok.com/discover/8647fdt-nebraska-plate
info Disclaimer: This analysis is generated by AI and should be used as a starting point for critical thinking, not as definitive truth. Claims are verified against publicly available sources. Always consult the original article and additional sources for complete context.