NYC Sanitation Seems To Trash JD Vance With Truly Timely Message About Couches

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... dont love anymore? the agency wrote on X and other social media sites 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 had sex with a couch and described the experience in his bestselling memoir, Hillbilly Elegy. 

Several news organizations that reviewed the book found no such passage , but that hasnt 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) didnt mention the couch when they spoke about Vance last week ... but delivered their message while sitting on one . 

Its 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 Vances critics had some thoughts: