The New York City Sanitation Department seemed to subtweet Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), former President Donald Trump’s running mate, with a suspiciously timed message about disposing of sofas.
“Have a couch you just... don’t love anymore?” the agency wrote on X and other social media sites on Sunday, followed by instructions on how to discard it.
The post included an image of a couch with some questionable stains:
Vance has been dogged by an urban legend that he has had sex with his own couch, and described the experience in his bestselling memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy.”
Several news organizations that reviewed the book found no such passage, but that hasn’t stopped the jokes.
“Late Show” host Stephen Colbert, for example, incorporated it into his monologue last week. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) trolled him over it during an appearance on “This Week.” Democratic Sens. Chris Murphy (Conn.) and Brian Schatz (Hawaii) didn’t mention the couch when they spoke about Vance last week... but delivered their message while sitting on one.
It’s not clear if the Sanitation Department was getting in on the act, taking advantage of sofas being in the news or if the whole thing was just a coincidence.
But Vance’s critics had some thoughts: