JD Vance’s couch story is a farce, and he did not have sex with a couch.
This was announced by AP after it fact-checked the claim and displayed it prominently in its headlines on Wednesday.
The bizarre JD Vance couch story was made by many netizens on X, claiming that Vance, now the running mate for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, had written in his 2016 memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” that he simulated the act with a rubber glove anchored between the cushions as a young man.
JD Vance Couch Memes Flooding on Social Media
There was no paucity of JD Vance couch memes, and detractors seized the opportunity to score political brownie points.
A Kamala Harris supporter wrote:
“You have only been a Senator for 18 months, you are NOT qualified to be @VP plus you depravedly humped a couch and wrote about it in your book!”
Even well-known personalities like comedian Kathy Griffin butted into the debate and declared that the nation must not have a “couchf*cker” as vice president.
Another X post claimed:
“In his dreadful novel, ‘Hillbilly Elegy,’ JD Vance described having sex with a rubber glove secured between cushions on his couch. Republicans chose him to be one heartbeat away from becoming POTUS. Voters in NC, the U.S. furniture capital, should be particularly horrified.”
What did the AP report in its fact check?
AP had started with the headline,
“Posts spread baseless rumors about GOP vice presidential pick JD Vance having sex with a couch.”
However, the article later disappeared for no apparent reason.
AP, in its quest to unearth the truth, conducted a PDF search of the book that produced 10 references to “couch” or “couches.” “Sofa” and “glove” did not appear anywhere in the memoir.
Other media houses like The Cut conducted their investigation and found the pages which had Vance’s alleged furniture tryst mentioned no such thing.
AP in a statement said:
“At no point in his memoir does Vance write about performing sex acts on a couch. A searchable PDF of ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ mentions ‘couch’ or ‘couches’ 10 times, never in reference to the story being told on social media. Instead, these passages describe couches being used for typical purposes, such as sitting and sleeping.”
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