[2] In October 2019, he was fired from Fox News and all affiliates after he endorsed the notion that American Democrats worship a pagan god, Moloch.

In 2005, Starnes underwent surgery for a near-fatal heart valve condition exacerbated by obesity, the subject of his first book, They Popped My Hood and Found Gravy on the Dipstick (2009).

[14] In 2017 The Deplorables' Guide to Making America Great Again debuted on the USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Conservative Book Club's best seller lists.

[15][16] In 2018, Starnes wrote on Twitter that protesters who disrupted the Supreme Court confirmation vote of Brett Kavanaugh (who had been accused of sexual assault) were "screaming animals" who "should be tasered, handcuffed, and dragged out of the building.

[18] On August 26, 2021, after the deaths of Marine and Navy servicemembers in the 2021 Kabul airport attacks, Starnes tweeted, "For every American who is killed, a city in Afghanistan should be wiped off the face of the Earth.