John Schneider’s Masked Singer Press Tour Scrapped After Inflammatory Social Media Post Targeting Bidens

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Fox pulled the plug on a media tour for The Masked Singer Season 10 participant John Schneider after the Smallville and Dukes of Hazzard alum posted to X a since-deleted attack on President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.

The same night that he was unmasked as The Masked Singer’s Donut, Schneider wrote on X (formerly known as Twitter), “Mr. President, I believe you are guilty of treason and should be publicly hung [sic]. Your son too. Your response is? Sincerely, John Schneider.” (Vulture’s Joe Adalian, for one, has a screenshot of the deleted post from Wednesday evening.)

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Fox in turn cancelled some scheduled press appearances for Schneider, sources confirm for TVLine.

UPDATED: Schneider, in a statement to our sister site Deadline, said, “I neither said nor implied” that the Bidens should be executed. “In my post, I absolutely did not call for an act of violence or threaten a U.S. president as many other celebrities have done in the past. I suggest you re-read my actual post and pay attention to the words before believing this nonsense….. There is no threat implied or otherwise in that statement.”

Schneider’s contempt for President Biden is no secret. Even his most recent posts to X have expressed the likes of, “Joe gotta go… to jail. Treason is a serious crime. Especially if you are the president.” And a post from Dec. 4 that has not been deleted shows him replying to a conspiracy theory about payments that Hunter Biden made to his father with: “We still hang people for treason don’t we?”

Schneider, who as Donut wound up placing second in The Masked Singer Season 10, was the recipient of much audience sympathy as he emotionally spoke of his wife Alicia losing a battle with breast cancer earlier this year.

“I know that my bride would be delighted” by his Masked Singer turn, “woulda been back there having a great time,” Schneider told host Nick Cannon after being unmasked.

“My wife passed in February, this year,” he said, tearing up. “That’s why it’s still so fresh, and I think it’s always go to be fresh.

“Make sure that if you love somebody desperately,” he told the audience there and at home, “make sure before you go to sleep tonight that they know it.”

TVLine has reached out to Schneider’s reps for comment on his deleted post; Fox has no comment.

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