JD Vance hasn’t heard the end of the couch sex jokes.
Democrats—the official X account of the party—revived the meme Friday afternoon after second lady Usha Vance was photographed without her wedding ring during an event at Camp Lejeune with first lady Melania Trump.
Responding to the photos, the account tweeted, “Is JD sleeping on the couch?” referencing the 2024 viral but fake rumor that the vice president once wrote about having sex with a couch.
The second lady, 39, visited the Marine Corps training facility with first lady Melania Trump on Wednesday to speak with military members and their families. Eagle-eyed X users quickly noticed that Vance arrived ring-free.
The Vances have long been plagued by rumors of marital woes, which ramped up in October after the vice president made a nebulous comment about the couple’s religious differences.
“Do I hope eventually that she is somehow moved by the same thing that I was moved by in church? Yeah, I honestly do wish that,” said Vance, 41, during a Turning Point USA event at Ole Miss on Oct. 29. “I believe in the Christian gospel, and I hope eventually my wife comes to see it the same way.”
Usha Vance is the first second lady of Hindu faith, and the first of Indian descent. JD Vance was raised Evangelical and converted to Catholicism in 2019.
Vance also said that both he and his wife considered themselves “agnostic or atheist” when they met, but had since come to an “arrangement” to raise their three children as Christians.
The couple met as first-year students at Yale Law School in 2010, and married in 2014. They share sons Ewan, 8, and Vivek, 5, and daughter Mirabel, 3.
At the same event, Vance also made waves for an unexpectedly intimate hug with Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk, the widow of Charlie Kirk.
Erika Kirk later said on Jesse Watters Primetime that the Vances had been a “blessing” after her husband’s death.
Meanwhile, the couch-sex meme has long been a favorite meme of social media-savvy Democratic politicians.
In October, California Governor Gavin Newsom trolled Vance by posting a lengthy AI-generated video that appeared to depict the vice president defending his love of couches.
Vance has occasionally attempted to join in on the joke. During a July 2024 campaign stop, the former senator quipped, “I’d call [Usha] up here to come and speak, but then I think I’d have to sleep on the couch tonight.”
A spokeswoman for the second lady told the MAGA-leaning Washington Examiner that she is “a mother of three young children, who does a lot of dishes, gives lots of baths, and forgets her ring sometimes.”
