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Once again, JD Vance has found himself at the center of one of the internet's funniest viral rumors.
Donald Trump’s right-hand man became the subject of mockery as social media users falsely claimed he admitted to having sex with a sofa in his recent memoir, Hillbilly Elegy.
The allegation spread rapidly online, with memes, jokes and edited images flooding platforms including X, formerly Twitter. Some posts even mocked Vance with references to "naked chairs" and furniture, despite there being no evidence to support the claim.
The rumor appears to have originated in July 2024, shortly after the Ohio senator was confirmed as Donald Trump's running mate in the presidential election.
One X user jokingly claimed they "can't say for sure but [Vance] might be the first vp pick to have admitted in a ny times bestseller to f***ing an inside-out latex glove shoved between two couch cushions (vance, hillbilly elegy, pp. 179-181)."
The supposed passage does not exist in Hillbilly Elegy, and there is no mention anywhere in the memoir of Vance having sex with a couch.
Despite the claim being entirely false, social media continued to embrace the joke.
One architecture firm shared a photograph of a minimalist "Naked Chair," prompting one user to quip: "Make sure JD Vance doesn't see this."
The furniture memes arrived during a difficult period for Vance, who had already faced criticism over several public remarks.
At a campaign rally, he attempted to joke about accusations of racism by saying: "I had a diet Mountain Dew yesterday and one today and I'm sure they're going to call that racist, too."
The comment was widely mocked online, with users quickly incorporating it into the growing wave of sofa-related memes.
Vance also faced renewed scrutiny over comments made during a 2021 interview with Tucker Carlson, in which he described Kamala Harris as a "miserable cat lady" and suggested that people without biological children were less suited to public office.
Those remarks drew widespread backlash, with critics noting that Harris has two stepchildren and arguing that attacking childless Americans was an unpopular message, particularly amid ongoing debates surrounding reproductive rights.
Although the internet continues to joke about the now-infamous couch rumour, there has never been any evidence to suggest Vance wrote about such an encounter in his memoir, making the viral claim entirely unfounded.
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Vice President JD Vance has made yet another bizarre claim about President Donald Trump, and this time it’s a seriously personal one.
Not against the POTUS himself, but Vance alleges he mocked the size of another politician’s manhood while in the White House.
Donald Trump is no stranger to an outlandish comment - just look at his comments towards a female reporter recently - and his right-hand man Vance has even poked fun at himself in recent times.
However, on this occasion the joke was all on someone else - another politician who apparently - according to Trump - might have a small penis.
JD Vance told the story live on stage at a Christmas party in honor of Sylvester Stallone, and recounted the strange anecdote which allegedly took place in the Oval Office.
It all comes down to that old trope once again - big feet vs big… you’ve guessed it.
It seems as if President Trump is pretty obsessed with shoe size - and probably penis size as well, if we’re honest - but he raised one particular concern during an off-the-cuff chat in his office at the White House.
Vance recalled: “People often ask me what it's like to be the Vice President of the United States.
“And a lot of that is exactly what you’d expect it to look like…but sometimes you get these behind-the-scenes moments that I will never, ever forget for the rest of my life.”
It seems as if JD, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and a third anonymous politician were sitting in the office one day discussing ‘really important’ matters when Trump decided to change the subject.
“There’s something much more important,” Vance quoted him as saying.
“Shoes.”
Trump then allegedly accused the men of having ’s***ty shoes’ and said he would buy them all four pairs each.
That led to him asking about shoe size.
Vance explained: “He says, ‘Marco, what’s your shoe size?’ And Marco’s apparently an 11 and a half.
“He says, ‘JD, what’s your shoe size?’ My shoe size is 13,
“Then [Trump] asked this politician, who I won’t embarrass, what his shoe size is, and he says: ‘Seven’”.
Vance paused for effect, before adding: “The President, he kind of leans back in his chair and says, ‘You know you can tell a lot about a man by his shoe size.’”
Then, turning to his own wife Usha - who has herself been the subject of some controversy recently - he said: “We won’t ask the Second Lady for comment on that particular topic.”
This sort of joke is something that has been levelled at Trump before - just ask the creators of South Park, and the man in the room with him on this occasion.
During his campaigning days, Trump was accused Rubio of having a smaller manhood than him, before the pair later went on to work together in government.
At the time, Rubio said: “He’s always calling me Little Marco.
“And I’ll admit he’s taller than me. He’s like 6’2, which is why I don’t understand why his hands are the size of someone who is 5’2,
“And you know what they say about men with small hands? You can’t trust them.”
Trump responded: “He referred to my hands – 'If they're small, something else must be small.' I guarantee you there's no problem. I guarantee.”
JD Vance put his own slant on a famous meme of himself in response to a tweet about how he got into Yale.
The Vice President shared the famous bald picture of himself on X in response to a post attacking him.
Yes, the VPOTUS is sharing memes of himself online now - this is America, this is 2025.
To be fair, it is good to see Vance taking the joke well and even finding a bit of space to mock himself.
In recent times, others in his administration - mentioning no names - have struggled to see the funny side of certain things.
Still, that hasn’t stopped Jimmy Kimmel from poking fun at the POTUS, even if it wasn’t all smiles for him either on his star-studded comeback.
Now, Vance has responded to criticism online with a popular meme of himself, much to the delight of his supporters.
The post, shared on X by an account called Chief Nerd, featured a video of political commentator and TV host Joy Reid, who was mocking Vance for getting into Yale.
The post quoted Reid as having said: “JD Vance got into Yale because they were tired of just letting in white men from New York … from all the elite schools.
“They wanted an Appalachian white.
“That's how that man got into Yale, I promise you … That's also affirmative action and DEI.”
Naturally, Vance had to respond.
However, he didn’t do that as you might expect.
Instead of hitting back in typical fashion, or using the tactics of his boss to simply deride his opponent or claim that they are failing, he shared the popular meme of himself staring down the camera with a bald head that has been artificially fattened up.
On the internet, it’s probably a better way to convince anyone of that side of the argument than any salient point.
His fans were out in force.
One said: “He has seized the memes of production.”
Another wrote: “My favorite thing about our VP is the way he u-turns these memes.”
A third simply said: “That's my VP.”
However, not everyone saw it that way.
“Buddy we’re not laughing with you. We’re laughing at you,” said one person.
“S Tier vice president,” another called him.
Another comment implored Vance to ‘do your job’.
One thing is for certain - we haven’t seen the last of those JD Vance memes, and they might even be coming directly from the man himself.
In a speech at White House Rose Garden, recalling his recent assassination attempt, Donald Trump mocked his vice president, JD Vance.
Attempting to embarrass his second in command, the president described Secret Service agents hoisting him out of his chair to safety while Trump remained seated.
Thanking the Secret Service for their support on the fateful night of April 25, Trump said, “I thought you did a great job two weeks ago. You know why? Because I’m here.”
Addressing the rest of the audience and trying to make Vance blush, Trump added, “They had great professional people, and they came out, and within seconds, I saw them take JD by the shoulders and lift him up like he was a little boy.”
In the aftermath of the attack at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington DC, a video of Vance being dragged from his chair by the shoulders by a Secret Service agent while Trump remained calmly seated went viral.
Joking about the viral footage, Trump said, "How come they didn’t lift me up so fast?" JD got ripped out of the chair; that was the view of the week.”
Continuing to mock the vice president, Trump asked guests who they preferred, Vance or his potential successor in the 2028 election, Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Casting doubt on Vance retaining his position, Trump said, “Is it gonna be JD? Is it gonna be someone else? I don't know.”
He then bellowed across the room, “Who likes JD Vance?” and “Who likes Marco Rubio?”
Following the audience’s applause for both candidates, Trump responded: “Sounds like a good ticket.”
While the president has explicitly declared his preferred successors are Vance and Rubio, he has not said who he would want to take his job when he departs the White House in 2028.
During his speech, Trump said, “I do believe that’s a dream team, but these are minor details.
“That does not mean you have my endorsement under any circumstance. But you know... I think it sounds like presidential candidate and vice presidential candidate.”
Rubio and Vance previously worked together in the Senate, and both opposed Trump's early bid for the presidency in 2016.
In the face of rumors about their presidential plans, Vance and Rubio have denied any strong interest in running for the top seat in the Oval Office.
However, Rubio claimed in an interview last year that he would back Vance’s presidential bid, saying, “If JD Vance runs for president, he's going to be our nominee, and I'll be one of the first people to support him.”
Vice President JD Vance is facing scrutiny over a resurfaced 2021 social media post that critics say is awkwardly timed, following explosive revelations linking Trump to Jeffrey Epstein.
As previously reported, new emails emerged alleging that the 79-year-old president spent “hours” at the disgraced financier's home with one of his alleged victims.
Hours later, an old X (formerly Twitter) post from Trump's Vice President began making the rounds online.
The tweet, which was dated September 4, 2021 - years before Vance joined Trump’s 2024 ticket - read: “I think about this @matthewwalther column about once a month.”
JD Vance's old post about Epstein has resurfaced. Credit: Anna Moneymaker / Getty
The column he referenced, titled "The Jeffrey Epstein case is why people believe in Pizzagate,” was written by Matthew Walther for The Week in 2019.
In a follow-up to the same tweet, Vance added: “Remember when we learned that our wealthiest and most powerful people were connected to a guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring? And then that guy died mysteriously in a jail? And now we just don’t talk about it.”
The post has now re-entered public conversation in light of new evidence connecting Trump more directly to Epstein’s world.
Many users on the social media platform have shared their reactions. Journalist Mehdi Hasan commented: "Yes, yes, we remember!" while another person chimed in: "This aged well, unlike some of the victims of Epstein and his pals."
"So why aren't you talking about it now, and why isn't your boss releasing all the information that would supposedly prove his lack of guilt?" they added.
A third questioned: "Weird that now JD doesn’t want to talk about it either… wonder what changed?"
Jeffrey Epstein made bombshell claim about Donald Trump in email sent before his death in prison. Credit: Davidoff Studios Photography / Getty
The House Oversight Committee recently obtained more than 20,000 pages of Epstein’s private emails and internal communications, including exchanges with Ghislaine Maxwell and author Michael Wolff.
Three specific revelations are drawing attention to Trump’s past association with Epstein.
In a 2019 email to Wolff, Epstein reportedly wrote: “Of course he knew about the girls,” adding: “As he asked Ghislaine to stop.”
An earlier 2011 email to Maxwell referred to Trump cryptically as “the dog that hasn’t barked.” Epstein wrote: “I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is Trump.”
One April 2011 exchange revealed that the president had spent “hours at my house” with an unnamed victim. Maxwell’s response was: “I have been thinking about that.”
The unnamed person was later identified by the White House as Virginia Giuffre, who has repeatedly stated that Trump “was not involved in any wrongdoing whatsoever".
In another exchange, when Wolff asked Epstein what he should ask Trump in an upcoming interview, Epstein jokingly suggested provocative topics such as the “Trump Shuttle” and “Hawaiian Tropic contests” - a nod to Trump’s past involvement in beauty pageants.
Though Trump has not been charged with any criminal conduct in relation to Epstein’s crimes, the email dump has sparked new speculation about their relationship.
He has dismissed the emails as “another Democrat hoax” on Truth Social, accusing his political opponents of attempting to distract from their own “massive failures.”
JD Vance once called Trump "America's Hitler". Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
The tweet resurfacing is particularly ironic given Vance’s political evolution.
Back in 2016, the 41-year-old was openly hostile to Trump, once calling him “America’s Hitler.” But ahead of Trump’s 2024 run, the two reconciled, with Vance rising to become a key ally and eventually his vice-presidential pick.
Now, the internet is questioning whether Vance’s past skepticism of those tied to Epstein can coexist with his loyalty to Trump, who is once again facing backlash over his long-documented but often downplayed links to the late financier.
JD Vance has become the subject of online mockery once again, after a joke he made failed to land with both a live audience and people on social media.
The US Vice President’s stand-up aspirations took a knock, and not because of his comical policies… The 41-year-old second-in-command spoke at the IAFF’s Alfred K. Whitehead Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C., on March 9, where he reaffirmed the Trump administration’s support for firefighters.
Addressing the crowd, he praised their work, saying there was no group more hardworking or more vital to communities than rescue workers tackling burning material.
Before getting into his main remarks, however, Vance tried to open with a joke. After walking on stage to applause, he greeted the audience and commented on the large turnout. He then paused and said he couldn’t actually see anyone because the stage lights were so bright.
He followed up by joking that whoever set up the lights “must be a Democrat,” adding that although he couldn’t see the crowd, he had been told there were around 700 people there. Embarrassingly, the remark was met with almost complete silence, drawing a faintly audible sympathy chuckle from some of those in attendance.
Online, the reaction was far harsher. Many social media users criticized the attempt at humor, with one person writing, “AND THE CROWD GOES MILD,” while another asked what the joke was supposed to be. Others described him as awkward and questioned why he keeps trying to make jokes that don’t seem to work.
Several people mocked the moment using sarcasm, with one saying the spotlights must have been searching for a good joke but couldn’t find one. Another complained that his attempts at humor often fall flat and can be inappropriate.
This isn’t the first time Vance’s jokes have drawn criticism. Just last month, during the inaugural Board of Peace meeting, he tried to poke fun at Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez by referencing a moment when she paused while answering a question about Taiwan at the Munich Security Conference.
Vance attempted to imitate the pause by standing silently for about 20 seconds, but the audience responded with little more than silence. Ocasio-Cortez later joked on social media that the crowd’s quiet reaction lasted even longer than her original pause.
Given the repeated awkward moments, some observers online suggested that comedy might not be the best backup career if his political career goes down the drain.
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