JD Vance met with boos, heckles and told to ‘go f**k a couch’ at Union Station in Washington
The Trump administration has deployed the National Guard to the District in order to place the DC Metropolitan Police Department under federal control (Al Drago-Pool/Getty Images)
The Trump administration has deployed the National Guard to the District in order to place the DC Metropolitan Police Department under federal control (Al Drago-Pool/Getty Images)
US vice president JD Vance was met with heckles, boos and jeers on a recent visit to Union Station in Washington DC.
On Wednesday (20 August), Vance was faced with shouts from protestors as he greeted National Guard troops at Union Station in Washington, DC.
Vance, who was joined by defence secretary Pete Hegseth and White House Deputy Chief of staff Stephen Miller, met with troops at fast food chain Shake Shack and thanked them.
“You guys bust your ass all day and we give you hamburgers – not a fair trade, but we’re grateful for everything you do,”he said, as reported by The Independent.
But as Vance spoke to guard members protesters booed him, chanting “shame,” “this is our city,” and even “go f**k a couch.”
Miller told press that said the White House would “add thousands more resources” to the effort of cracking down on crime in the nation’s capital, calling the protesters “stupid white hippies” and “communists.”
Vance said of the protestors, who he described as “crazy”: “It’s kind of bizarre that we have a bunch of old, primarily white people who are out there protesting the policies that keep people safe when they’ve never felt danger in their entire lives.”
He also claimed that Union Station had been taken over by “drug addicts,” “vagrants,” and the “chronically homeless.”
One heckler went viral on X after shouting that Vance was a “couch f****r,” adding, “You gonna go f**k a couch, buddy?”
A clip of the exchange has been viewed more than five million times, garnered over 20,000 likes, and received thousands of reposts.
JD Vance heckled a bit as he enters Shake Shack in DC’s Union Station pic.twitter.com/dkRc7tyhAB
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JD Vance couch joke explained
The false claim that DJ Vance admitted to having sex with a couch in his memoir has been shared widely online.
Kamala Harris’ running mate Tim Walz spurred on the claim by repeating it at a Democratic Party rally in Philadelphia. Walz joked, with Harris by his side: “I can’t wait to debate the guy… that is, if he’s willing to get off the couch and show up.”
His comment referenced a baseless claim made on social media, initially shared on 15 July 2024 by X by user @rickrudescalves, but later deleted, which read: “Can’t say for sure but he might be the first vp pick to have admitted in a ny times bestseller to f*****g an inside-out latex glove shoved between two couch cushions.”
The Associated Press debunked the claim but later retracted its fact-checking piece, which fuelled further ridicule of Vance online.
During the last week of July 2024, Google Trends data showed that searches for “JD Vance couch” outpaced those for “Trump shooting.”
However, the originator of the claim admitted to Business Insider that he made up the joke out of a dislike for the vice-president.
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