Ty Cobb, who was a White House lawyer during Trump's first term as president, left this comment under an acquaintance's private Facebook post.
By Anna Rascouët-Paz
Claim:
In early July 2025, former Trump White House lawyer Ty Cobb said Trump was "worse than anyone in our history."
Rating: Correct Attribution
During the summer of 2025, a claim spread that attorney Ty Cobb, former counsel at the White House during U.S. President Donald Trump's first term, said that the president was "worse than anyone in our history."
For example, a post on Facebook shared the supposed quote:
[Trump] is worse than anyone in our history in my experience and opinion. As people seem to have forgotten, I was very critical of Biden and despite knowing him and his family well, I spent 4 years writing about his cognitive decline and weak foreign policy. He had competent advisors though including very decent men as AG and head of the FBI. While you could fairly question their effectiveness you couldn't doubt their character. Trump has real contempt for the country, appoints wholly unqualified people to key positions and just kicked 12 million people off Medicaid, eliminated child food support and killed worldwide healthcare efforts monitoring pandemic producing diseases including Ebola (among countless other dangerous things).
Other Facebook posts relayed the alleged quote, and it also appeared on X and Reddit. The rumor seemingly first appeared in a July 5, 2025.
Cobb confirmed the quote was correctly attributed. "I didn't realize it was being so widely circulated," he said in an email.
Cobb added that he had written these words in response to an acquaintance's private post on Facebook. While he asked Snopes not to publish the exchange to respect the person's privacy, Snopes was able to see the original comment and verified that the text internet users reproduced and shared matched what Cobb wrote almost word for word — except for the first word. In his original comment, Cobb had written "He," referring to Trump, as the president had been one of the topics of the exchange.