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J.D. Vance fired off a lighthearted joke about him and a couch — and considering all the (unfounded) rumors about him and furniture … you couldn’t write a better script.
The vice presidential candidate spoke in Nevada Tuesday at a rally … and during his remarks, he mentioned his wife of a decade, Usha — implying she’s not big on public speaking.
In fact, Vance says, if he calls her up to the stage — she’ll probably make him sleep on the couch … an off-the-cuff comment that drew a few chuckles from the crowd, but which had the internet cracking up en masse.
In a normal election year, this comment would go totally unnoticed — but, VP candidates aren’t usually accused of getting intimate with living room furniture … and J.D., unfortunately, has as a result of some troll who floated this fake theory, which has gone viral.
ICYMI … a bogus excerpt from Vance’s autobiography “Hillbilly Elegy” made the rounds after Donald Trump picked him as his running mate — with the excerpt going on about how J.D. turned a latex glove inside out, put it in between couch cushions and went to town.
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Once again, it is NOT a real section in ‘HB Elegy’ … but, the internet ran with it anyway and the memes are everywhere — much to the chagrin of therapist Dr. Laura Berman who says this hurts members of the naughty furniture community.
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Of course, people could be reading too much into Vance’s quip … ’cause jokes about women making men sleep on the couch have been around since the dawn of time (or the dawn of sofas) — so, it’s unclear if J.D. was even making a reference to his now-viral connection.
Either way … J.D. may want to avoid the couch altogether on the campaign trail — ’cause he probably doesn’t want visitors being afraid to sit down in the Oval Office. 😅