A rumor claiming the comedian Larry the Cable Guy released a public statement asking supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump to unfollow him spread on social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram and X in June and July 2026. The statement criticized the president, calling him a "malignant, racist, corrupt man."
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 (the misspelling of "sycophants" as "syctophants" is in the original):
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 indicating that he had released such a statement.
Instead, we found a Feb. 6, 2026, Threads post from musician Rosanne Cash that started the exact same way but ended differently.
We also found social media posts nearly identical to the Larry the Cable Guy claim, except they targeted singer Paul McCartney and NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. instead. The McCartney version of the claim was the earliest we identified.
As such, the claim is an incorrect attribution of a quote to Larry the Cable Guy. 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 in such cases is multiple, nearly identical social media claims that all appear to follow the same basic template with minor changes. The posts sometimes come alongside links to unreliable, ad-filled blogs that supposedly offer more information but also display strong signs of generative AI usage. In this case, the claim about Earnhardt was accompanied by a blog post but the versions about McCartney and Larry the Cable Guy were not.
For further reading, in June 2026, 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.