--- title: FBI Employees Wear 'Comey is My Homey' Shirts description: Some FBI employees chose to honor their former director James Comey by wearing "Comey is my homey" t-shirts to a Family Day event Friday canonical: https://time.com/4844577/fbi-employees-wear-comey-is-my-homey-shirts-to-family-day/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-04T19:12:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-08T09:21:38.070Z article:section: Politics og:title: FBI Employees Wear 'Comey is My Homey' Shirts to Family Day og:description: At least a dozen people wore the shirts og:url: https://time.com/4844577/fbi-employees-wear-comey-is-my-homey-shirts-to-family-day/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0870837e908c84be/6988d464ab6d771e766aed3c/gettyimages-694398560.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3300 og:image:height: 1856 og:image:alt: fbi-james-comey-shirts og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: FBI Employees Wear 'Comey is My Homey' Shirts to Family Day twitter:description: At least a dozen people wore the shirts twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0870837e908c84be/6988d464ab6d771e766aed3c/gettyimages-694398560.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # FBI Employees Wear 'Comey Is My Homey' Shirts to Family Day > Sponsored content. 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President Donald Trump on Tuesday fired FBI Director James Comey — a controversial move that followed months of Trump's shifting opinions about him._ by [Lisa Marie Segarra](https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/) ## Lisa Marie Segarra Jul 4, 2017 7:12 PM UTC President Donald Trump on Tuesday fired FBI Director James Comey — a controversial move that followed months of Trump's shifting opinions about him. by [Lisa Marie Segarra](https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/) ## Lisa Marie Segarra Jul 4, 2017 7:12 PM UTC Some FBI employees chose to honor former director [James Comey](http://time.com/4830806/president-trump-james-comey-trust-poll/) by wearing “Comey is my homey” T-shirts to a Family Day event Friday. Shirts with the saying on them started being sold online by various outlets after [President Donald Trump fired the former FBI director](http://time.com/4773873/james-comey-fired-whats-next/) back in May. Jimmy Kimmel said in May he was selling “Comey is my homey” shirts after delivering an opening-monologue about the firing. He said at the time he would use some of the money to send “a very nasty letter directly to the Oval Office.” At least a dozen people were seen wearing the shirt at the annual FBI event for employees and their families, [HuffPost reported](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fbi-comey-my-homey-shirts-family-day%5Fus%5F5956f33de4b05c37bb7e8532), citing social media posts. ## Transcript [00:00] Why did you fire Director Comey? Cuz he wasn't doing a [00:03] good job, very simple. He was not doing a good job. When [00:06] you hear what was said by the FBI Director today, he talked [00:09] about extremely careless. She was extremely Careless [00:14] that's a tremendous word. Today is the best evidence ever [00:18] that we've seen that our system is absolutely, [00:23] totally rigged. The State Department and the FBI Colluded, [00:28] got together, to make Hillary Clinton look less guilty. [00:33] I have great respect for the FBI, for righting this wrong. The [00:37] American people fully understand her corruption, and we [00:41] hope all, all justice will finally [00:46] be served. I respect the fact that Director Comey Was [00:51] able to come back after what he did. And it took guts [00:56] for director Comey to make the move that he made in [01:00] light of the kind of opposition he had. And there's [01:06] [ INAUDIBLE ]. [ LAUGH ] He's become more famous than [01:07] me. [ LAUGH ] [01:16] [ APPLAUSE ] Was it a mistake not to ask Jim Comey to [01:19] step down from the FBI at the onset of your presidency. Is it [01:22] too late now to ask him to step down. No, it's not too late [01:25] but I have confidence and we'll see what happens. When [01:27] Jim Comey came out He saved Hillary Clinton. People [01:30] don't realize that. He saved her life. Why did you fire [01:32] James Comey? Cuz he wasn't doing a good job. 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