In June 2026, a rumor spread on social media sites like Facebook, Instagram and X suggesting that the comedian Larry the Cable Guy had released a public statement denouncing U.S. President Donald Trump and asking the president's supporters to unfollow him.
Snopes readers wrote in asking whether Larry the Cable Guy's statement was real.
It was not.
We started by searching Google, DuckDuckGo and Yahoo for the quote that accompanied the post, which read as follows,
If there are any Trump supporters who still follow me, I would ask that you unfollow me and do it now. I don't want anyone who supports this malignant, racist, corrupt man and his syctophants to lurk in my feed. I'm so sick of being used and taken advantage of by a narcissistic clown. I choose love. Always.
However, we found no evidence from reliable media outlets or Larry the Cable Guy's official media accounts suggesting that he had released such a statement.
Instead, we found a Feb. 6, 2026, Threads post from the musician Rosanne Cash that started the exact same way but ended differently.
As such, the claim is an incorrect attribution of a quote. Most of the quote (up until "lurk in my feed") can be attributed to Cash, while the second half was of unknown origin. The similar claims about Earnhardt and McCartney also switched up the last half of the quote.
The posts were likely an attempt to earn advertising revenue from viral posts. The pattern to look for is multiple, nearly identical social media claims that all appear to use the same basic template but make minor changes.
All in all, it's a type of post that Snopes checks frequently. For instance, earlier in June, we disproved an alleged quote from Matthew McConaughey praising Trump that used a very similar format and a series of images claiming to show anti-data center graffiti on water towers.