Faulty reasoning signals

• Unattributed Quote - 18.1%
• Appeal to Emotion - 13.6%
• Negativity Bias - 13.1%

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Did Larry the Cable Guy tell Trump supporters to 'unfollow' him? Here's the truth

Musician Rosanne Cash made a very similar post on Threads in February 2026.

Published July 3, 2026

Image courtesy of Tim Heitman and Alex Wong, accessed via Getty Images

In June 2026, comedian Larry the Cable Guy released a statement asking supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump to "unfollow me and do it now."

Incorrect Attribution

Musician Rosanne Cash made a post with very similar wording in February 2026.

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.

We started by searching Google , DuckDuckGo and Yahoo for the quote that accompanied the post, which read as follows, misspelling "sycophants" as "syctophants."

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.

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. 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. The posts sometimes come alongside links to unreliable, ad-filled blogs that supposedly offer more information and signs of generative artificial intelligence usage. In this case, a blog post accompanied the similar claim about Earnhardt but not the versions about McCartney or Larry the Cable Guy.

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.

Gillespie, Nick. "Larry the Cable Guy: 'I'm a Trump Man and When I Say "Trump Man," I Mean Gary Johnson.'" Reason.Com, 31 Aug. 2016, https://reason.com/2016/08/31/larry-the-cable-guy-im-a-trump-man-and-w/.

Winter, Emery. "Images Allegedly Show Water Towers across US with Anti-Data Center Messaging. Are They Real?" Snopes, 3 June 2026, https://www.snopes.com//fact-check/us-water-towers-anti-data-center-messaging/.

Zaru, Deena. "Larry the Cable Guy: 'Hillary Will Be the End of the Country' | CNN Politics." CNN, 30 Aug. 2016, https://www.cnn.com/2016/08/30/politics/larry-the-cable-guy-donald-trump-hillary-clinton.

Jack Izzo is a Chicago-based journalist and two-time "Jeopardy!" alumnus.