--- title: Why People Can't stop Laughing at James Comey's Tweets description: The photos that came with James Comey's Twitter response to the Mueller report are getting endlessly mocked on Twitter. canonical: https://time.com/5558400/comey-mueller-memes/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-03-25T20:48:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:58:20.911Z og:title: James Comey Gets Roasted Mercilessly for Forest Photo og:description: "So many questions" og:url: https://time.com/5558400/comey-mueller-memes/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt10410fda287ed8e0/69894748929fad1858bf2ef2/jamescomeyonmuellermemes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Former FBI Director James Comey Appears Before House Judiciary Cmte A Second Time og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: James Comey Gets Roasted Mercilessly for Forest Photo twitter:description: "So many questions" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt10410fda287ed8e0/69894748929fad1858bf2ef2/jamescomeyonmuellermemes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # People Can't Stop Laughing at James Comey's Introspective Responses to the Mueller Report > Sponsored content. 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House Republicans subpoenaed Comey to testify behind closed doors for a second time about investigations into Hillary Clinton's email server and whether President Trump's campaign advisers colluded with the Russian government to steer the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey arrives at the Rayburn House Office Building before testifying to the House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform committees on Capitol Hill December 17, 2018 in Washington, DC. House Republicans subpoenaed Comey to testify behind closed doors for a second time about investigations into Hillary Clinton's email server and whether President Trump's campaign advisers colluded with the Russian government to steer the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Mark Wilson&Getty Images by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Mar 25, 2019 8:48 PM UTC [James Comey’s](http://time.com/5482161/james-comey-slams-republican-party/) learning what happens when you get introspective on Twitter the hard way. Attorney General William Barr told Congress that the [Robert Mueller’s lengthy investigation](http://time.com/5557315/mueller-report-trump/) did not conclude that President Donald Trump or anyone associated with the Trump campaign conspired with Russia to interfere with the 2016 election. But as for whether the President obstructed justice, the Special Counsel decided “not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgement.” That left Democrats clamoring for answers from Barr. It looks like that also left the former FBI director still with outstanding questions of his own, and so on Sunday, he posted some tweets to that effect. Here’s the first one of him taking an interval of reflection, lost in that deep thought as he looks outward on a sun-dappled cliff for soul searching. “Geologic time offers useful perspective,” he wrote. > [](https://twitter.com/Comey/status/1109547306175463424) Here’s the second tweet along with the a photo of Comey staring up at the natural wonders of a sunlit forest. > [](https://twitter.com/Comey/status/1109930531389472768) “So many questions,” it read. Of course the pictures quickly set off jokes as Twitterati came in full force with the clapbacks. See a sampling below. > [](https://twitter.com/DPD%5F/status/1110190332006801408) > [](https://twitter.com/jenniferemorrow/status/1110053927020646400) > [](https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1110000425829351424) > [](https://twitter.com/ashleyfeinberg/status/1110177310949412864) > [](https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1110145539679637504) > [](https://twitter.com/jenniferemorrow/status/1110053927020646400) > [](https://twitter.com/xX%5Fniceguy%5FXx/status/1109935634897141761) > [](https://twitter.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1110292845171216385) It’s not the first time the former fed has showed his love of nature. When he first officially joined in 2017, he tweeted “Beautiful fall day at West Point. Lone kayaker on the Hudson,” alongside a picture of himself kayaking solo. > [](https://twitter.com/Comey/status/920783485413060608) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5558400/comey-mueller-memes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5558400/comey-mueller-memes/"},"headline":"People Can't Stop Laughing at James Comey's Introspective Responses to the Mueller Report","datePublished":"2019-03-25T20:48:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:58:20.911Z","description":"The photos that came with James Comey's Twitter response to the Mueller report are getting endlessly mocked on Twitter.","url":"https://time.com/5558400/comey-mueller-memes/","keywords":["Newsfeed","politics","viral","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt10410fda287ed8e0/69894748929fad1858bf2ef2/jamescomeyonmuellermemes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt10410fda287ed8e0/69894748929fad1858bf2ef2/jamescomeyonmuellermemes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Former FBI Director James Comey Appears Before House Judiciary Cmte A Second Time","caption":"Former FBI Director James Comey Appears Before House Judiciary Cmte A Second Time","creditText":"Mark Wilson&Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5558400/comey-mueller-memes/","name":"People Can't Stop Laughing at James Comey's Introspective Responses to the Mueller Report"}}]}] ```