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.”
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: