Have you been seeing a lot of memes this week about JD Vance making passionate love to couches? You’re not alone. Social media sites like X and TikTok have been flooded with jokes about the Republican nominee for vice president and his supposed history of fucking couches outfitted with a latex glove. But where did this rumor get started? And why is it so funny?
To be clear from the outset, there’s no evidence Vance has fucked a couch. To the best of our knowledge, the senator from Ohio has never taken a latex glove, turned it inside out, and placed it in between some couch cushions so that he can penetrate the furniture like it’s a human partner. This has never happened. Probably.
So where did this meme get started? It can all be traced back to a since deleted tweet by X user @rickrudescalves.
“can’t say for sure but he might be the first vp pick to have admitted in a ny times bestseller to fucking an inside-out latex glove shoved between two couch cushions (vance, hillbilly elegy, pp. 179-181),” the X user wrote.
Vance’s book, Hillbilly Elegy, does not contain any passages about having sex with couches, not on pages 179-181 or anywhere else. But there are plenty of other odd stories from the book that have since gone viral, including one about his indignation at being served sparkling water. There have been jokes and fake screenshots about the sparkling water, but the basic story is true if you can believe it.
But let’s not get sidetracked. We’re here to talk about JD Vance and the fact that he doesn’t penetrate couches. The tweet that started the entire couch-fucking rumor was sent out on July 15, the same day it was announced that Donald Trump had chosen Vance as his running mate. And while it took a little while to percolate, it’s become a widespread meme.
We’ve compiled some examples of the meme below, just in case you haven’t seen it. But it’s pretty much everywhere at this point. And it’s probably going to have a long shelf life as Vance and Trump continue their campaign to make this country so much worse.
X user @Eagleman42069 shared a very good meme clearly found elsewhere on the web that reads “my girl stupid thicc.”
— otto highway 🥥🌴 (@eagleman42069) July 24, 2024
Another viral video shows Vance with a montage of couches, set to the song “Not Like Us” by Kendrick Lamar.
Oh my God pic.twitter.com/G8beJlERn4
— UAE Exotic Falconry & Finance𓅃 (@FalconryFinance) July 24, 2024
X user @snchalmers79 shared a particularly fancy couch that may appeal to Vance. Or anyone who’s really into couches.
JD Vance seeing this couch pic.twitter.com/shpJtTotZ7
— 🤌🏼Super Nintendo Chalmers🤌🏼 (@snchalmers79) July 24, 2024
A fake politician account that goes by the name Rep. Jack Kimble tweeted about the Vance story while pointing out the vice presidential nominee’s extreme position on abortion.
While JD Vance is anti-abortion, he does support birth control. pic.twitter.com/c3AIi2Pqx5
— Rep. Jack Kimble (@RepJackKimble) July 23, 2024
Then there’s the meme that riffs on the “this bad boy can fit so many” joke.
lmao pic.twitter.com/fZLtDwWzWw
— otto highway 🥥🌴 (@eagleman42069) July 23, 2024
And it wouldn’t be a romantic meme video without a little Barry White music.
Last one…I promise. pic.twitter.com/6yIm1m7WqX
— Meacham 🌊 🌊 (@MeachamDr) July 22, 2024
X user @christweetsllc shared a gif from Chappelle’s Show that reimagined it with a Vance twist.
JD Vance be like pic.twitter.com/UCUkdcOfk7
— ultramarathon running thanker 🍉 (@christweetsllc) July 24, 2024
Gifs from the show It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia have also been popular, with this one showing Danny DeVito emerging from a couch.
Other memes, like this one on Reddit, incorporated a reference to Diet Mountain Dew. Vance made an absolutely bizarre reference to the soda at his first solo campaign rally, trying to say people would call the drink racist. It’s not entirely clear what he meant since it was so out of left field.
A Reddit user shared a meme that even included the latex glove in a movie poster parody.
X user Eric Allen Hatch turned the incident into a Twin Peaks reference.
JD Vance when he’s got the house all to himself pic.twitter.com/HaV37bMEgn
— Eric Allen Hatch (@ericallenhatch) July 24, 2024
Still, another person shared a couch that may have the qualities Vance is looking for in furniture.
Whatever you do, don't tell JD Vance about this couch. pic.twitter.com/YhuOnGypBC
— QENNY Lovecraft (@AKBrews) July 16, 2024
X user @eagleman42069 had another joke about pulling out.
— otto highway 🥥🌴 (@eagleman42069) July 24, 2024
Then there were the photoshops that suggested Vance wasn’t welcome at furniture stores.
Spotted in the wild 👀 pic.twitter.com/hUmVwX1ggy
— TheRealThelmaJohnson (@TheRealThelmaJ1) July 23, 2024
But what if I pretend to be a couch, what then?
Another solid tweet came from @pathiandc.
my favorite throuple pic.twitter.com/4CDkg9zHR7
— scotty🥥🌴 (@plathiandc) July 25, 2024
The green lines helped demonstrate the alpha in the relationship.
https://t.co/eo8DBsVWVR pic.twitter.com/cpF9cvnqXK
— Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker⚔️ (@Nomads4Pritzker) July 25, 2024
And there were more musical renditions, with time with an AI Lara Trump.
During his interview with Lara Trump, J.D. Vance sings “I f*cked a couch.” It’s actually kinda catchy. 🎶
This may be satire — what do you think? 🤷🏼♂️ #CouchHumper pic.twitter.com/xBRIX7ipzn
— Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) July 25, 2024
What would Rodney Dangerfield say? No respect, I tell ya.
no respect, i tell ya. my wife made me sleep on the couch and it also said it was too tired pic.twitter.com/BeQbrho8Kq
— Ben Rosen (@ben_rosen) July 26, 2024
The ghost of Bob Marley also got some shots in.
🎶 I fucked the sofa!
But I did not fuck the ot-to-man 🎶 pic.twitter.com/flWk4BRRKM— 𝕏 Derrick 𝕏♎ 🟧 🟦#BLM 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈 (@Spawn_03) July 25, 2024
There are, of course, some people who seem to think Vance may have actually fucked his couch. And given how strange Vance is, that’s not surprising. The guy has negative charisma and if anyone looked like a guy who regularly penetrated his couch, it’s this weirdo.
I feel like at no point did someone tell Trump that his VP wrote a memoir where he talks about fucking couch cushions. And he’s gonna find out. And the walls shall bleed ketchup. You just wait. 🤭 pic.twitter.com/0UBDHxgV7W
— Sarah Larchmont (@SarahLarchmont) July 24, 2024
Not all of the jokes have been memes that use images or videos. Some are simple one-liners like “jd vance: da sofa king of kings,” tweeted by Illumi on Bluesky.
As you can see, there are so many jokes to choose from. Meanwhile, the side of the political coin that supports Vance just can’t help itself with extremely racist memes about Kamala Harris.
The election is just a little over three months away and Harris will now seek to energize voters in a way that’s already been truly impressive. The vice president has been talking about the dangers of Project 2025 and touts her credentials as a former prosecutor who can take on the convicted felon Donald Trump.
Nobody knows what’s going to happen for certain when Americans go to the polls in November. But Democrats are feeling much better than they did a couple of weeks ago. And while Harris supporters joyously post coconut tree memes, the Republicans are trying to figure out how to elect a neo-fascist felon and a guy who may not have fucked a couch, but certainly sounds like the type who would.
