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Since at least March 2018, clickbait factories have pushed identical, word-for-word copies of an article claiming Magnum P.I. star Tom Selleck, in an interview with Breitbart News, said he would say f*ck you to anyone who did not support U.S. President Donald Trump. These copy-paste articles, published on sites with real-sounding names like trumpphotos.blogspot.com, americanews2018.blogspot.com, and, most recently, thedailytrumpnews.us, state: At no point ever did Selleck ever conduct an interview with Breitbart News in which he said any of these words. Curiously, however, the words are lifted from a real Hollywood actor who did endorse Trump for president in 2016 — Jon Voight. In a March 2016 Breitbart article titled Exclusive: Jon Voight Endorses Donald Trump for President, that outlet published a statement from Voight that read, in part: Selleck is a Hollywood actor with true conservative bona fides, but he is not Voight. Selleck was, until he resigned in September 2018, a member of the board of directors for the National Rifle Association, and he has described his political affiliation as a registered independent with a lot of libertarian leanings. In 2008, he supported John McCain for president. In 2016, however, he could not bring himself to support candidate Trump or his opponent, Hillary Clinton. Instead of voting for either, he told members of the morning talk show The View, he wrote in the name of Dallas Police Chief David Brown. Selleck, who told the hosts he didn't support either [presidential] candidate, said the police chief showed such grace and leadership in response to a 2016 mass shooting targeting Dallas police officers, and that Selleck was just deeply touched by him. Because Selleck never said the favorable words in defense of Trump attributed to him in these viral articles, and because Selleck has explicitly stated he didn’t support either candidate in 2016, we rank the claim as False.
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