California Gov. Gavin Newsom has trolled JD Vance with a bizarre AI-generated video in which the vice president defends his love for couches in a fake TV interview.
The Governor Newsom Press Office X account, which has taken to ridiculing MAGA figures online, targeted the vice president while mocking the Republican over unearthed photos of him wearing a dress and blonde wig at Yale.
It also finds inspiration from the viral but baseless claim that Vance wrote about having sex with a couch in his Hillbilly Elegy memoir.
“Yes, there’s a photo of me in drag from a college party, and that’s normal. Everyone experiments in college, costumes, makeup, whatever, totally normal,” Vance said in the deepfake clip. “But what I don’t understand is why people are so obsessed with this other thing, cou