JD Vance genuinely might go down as the worst running mate of all time. At this point, I actually think he is a worse pick than Sarah Palin, and I’m not even joking. At least Palin brought some “excitement” to John McCain’s candidacy and she helped him raise money. Vance brings nothing positive to the table – he’s just a hypocrite who will adopt any position he’s paid to adopt. He has no charisma, he’s creepy, he’s weird, he’s a stalker and he’s constantly in women’s business. Currently, Republicans are still trying to make their transphobia into a major culture war. It’s not just transphobia – they hate everything about and around drag, cross-dressing or people not adhering to binary “gender roles.” Well, when JD Vance was at Yale Law, he did drag at least once:
Ladies and gentleman, a picture of JD Vance in drag while attending Yale Law School. ⬇️
I don’t share this to shame those who do drag, but rather to shame those who attack drag while having a history of enjoying the art form themselves. 👠 pic.twitter.com/6oIbmbprYL
— Justice Horn (@JusticeHorn_) August 11, 2024
Well well well. Many people experiment in college, or in Vance’s case, experiment when they were a 28-year-old law student. The Trump-Vance campaign won’t confirm that this is actually Vance in the photo, but notably, the campaign isn’t denying it either.
An image of JD Vance allegedly dressed as a woman and wearing a blonde wig was posted to X, formerly known as Twitter, on Sunday. The unconfirmed image quickly picked up steam and began trending under the hashtag #SofaLoren, a reference to the iconic Italian actress Sophia Loren and false claims that the Republican senator had sex with a couch.
A spokesperson for the Republican vice presidential pick did not deny the photo’s authenticity when approached by the Daily Beast, and did not offer any further comment.
The source who surfaced the alleged photo, Travis Whitfill, says the picture was taken by a fellow Yale classmate in 2012, when Vance was attending law school at the university, and sent to him by another friend. Whitfill then sent it to podcast host Matt Bernstein, who posted it to X.
“It’s from a group chat of Vance’s fellow classmates and is from a friend of a friend,” he told the Daily Beast. “I believe it was grabbed from Facebook and was taken at a Halloween party.”
Whitfill also posted about his role in bringing the photo to light, sharing screenshots of the text conversation in which he first received the photo. “I didn’t know him,” Whitfill wrote, “from all the sources I’ve heard, JD was actually a good guy in law school. Not sure what happened after though…Doing my part for democracy,” he added in another post.
Many commenters online connected Vance’s alleged history of cross-dressing with his legislative history—which has long been a point of concern for LGBTQ+ advocacy groups. The Ohio senator introduced the “Protect Children’s Innocence Act,” which aims to criminalize medical institutions that provide gender-affirming care to minors. The Republican vice presidential pick also supports measures to limit classroom discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity, and labeled critics of so-called “don’t say gay” legislation “groomers.”
Looking at Vance’s long history of saying offensive sh-t about “childless cat ladies” and how it’s “sociopathic” for people to be childless… I do think there’s a huge internal struggle there. My armchair psychology is that Vance feels like he played by “the rules” and mostly refused to “give in” to his urges, and he’s mad that other people – especially women – didn’t do the same. He would love to be queening it up, childless and free. Also? I haven’t mentioned this before, but there’s a whole thing about whether Vance wears eyeliner. I’ve looked through a lot of photos of Vance in recent weeks and I’ve studied the closeups… and he does. He wears eyeliner, especially on his lower lid. Maybe that’s his little protest against himself, in a sad way – he will play by the rules 99% of the time but he will do so with eyeliner on.
Saw somebody refer to JD as “Sofa Loren,” and someone else called him “Ashley Furniture,” and now I’m as deceased as his career. pic.twitter.com/kerG8WsvGk
— Jay Templin (@TemplinJay) August 12, 2024
new: i have obtained a photo of jd vance in drag while at yale law school pic.twitter.com/jYf14Lwa4D
— matt (@mattxiv) August 11, 2024
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- National Harbor, MA – **FILE PHOTOS** Donald Trump has named US Sen. JD Vance as his running mate, further elevating the Ohio Republican who has adopted the former president’s populist agenda after years of pointed criticism of Trump. Vance, a freshman, entered Congress with the help of Trump, whose endorsement helped him win a contentious race in 2022. Vance was critical of Trump in 2016, and six years later, Trump publicly humiliated Vance even after endorsing him in the 2022 election. In the Senate, Vance has been an outspoken supporter of Trump and often votes in allegiance with the former president’s interests. He opposed a Ukraine aid bill earlier this year, adopting Trump’s criticism of providing more aid. He is also close with Donald Trump Jr. Vance, a former venture capitalist, veteran and author, was reported to be among the candidates who received vice-presidential vetting materials from the Trump campaign. Pictured Here: Sen. J.D. Vance speaks during the 2024 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. **SHOT ON 02/23/2024** Pictured: JD Vance BACKGRID USA 15 JULY 2024 BYLINE MUST READ: MediaPunch / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Milwaukee, WISC – A person takes a photo on their phone as United States Senator JD Vance (Republican of Ohio) is officially nominated for the office of Vice President at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at the Fiserv Forum. Pictured: JD Vance BACKGRID USA 15 JULY 2024 BYLINE MUST READ: MediaPunch / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Milwaukee, WISC – A person takes a photo on their phone as United States Senator JD Vance (Republican of Ohio) is officially nominated for the office of Vice President at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at the Fiserv Forum. Pictured: JD Vance BACKGRID USA 15 JULY 2024 BYLINE MUST READ: MediaPunch / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Las Vegas, NV – Vice president-elect JD Vance is seen at a rally in Las Vegas, Nevada. JD took the time to even bring up a congressional hopeful Sam Brown onto the stage. Pictured: JD Vance BACKGRID USA 30 JULY 2024 BYLINE MUST READ: ACES / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Las Vegas, NV – Vice president-elect JD Vance is seen at a rally in Las Vegas, Nevada. JD took the time to even bring up a congressional hopeful Sam Brown onto the stage. Pictured: JD Vance BACKGRID USA 30 JULY 2024 BYLINE MUST READ: ACES / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
This weirdo is so incredibly annoying. This leaked photo better not lead to even more isht against the LBGTQ+ community!
Where’s the photo with the wig?
He looks much happier as a woman. He should just come out and leave us women TF alone. He makes Ron “Puddin’ Fingers” DeSantis seem normal.
He most certainly wears eyeliner, which I would like to not stigmatize but should be so abhorrent to the toxic masculinity he-men women-haters he is courting. Sadly, there is no consistency or reasoning in the MAGA horde. As long as their hate is fed, they will accept complete hypocrisy.
All their attacks are actually projection.
And confession.
Also, low effort on his part. He needs some real drag queen/king to teach him a thing or two.
Sometimes the over exertion of masculinity is an attempt to hide something. I’m not a biologist, but at least I know that all men have one X and one Y Chromosome. Which makes me think that there’s no such thing as a man in the way that the right wing want folks to believe. It’s why they were all so shocked to learn that Rock Hudson was gay. I mean, how can it be, they shreaked. He’s so manly, they exclaimed. I’m not saying that all men have biological gay proclivities, but it’s just that the whole idea of men being to extremely masculine is problematic for these right wingers, because even the tiniest appearance of femininity must be quashed. Setting that aside, I do believe that Vance is most likely not heterosexual.
Vance is about as transparent as damaged men come. He’s another example of childhood trauma manifesting as unstable identity and ideological, structural conservatism. He flits from one father figure to the next, whoever will give him a sense of stability, and he longs for the rigid social structures of conservatism because they’re a sharp contrast to the instability of his youth. He hates women because he can’t acknowledge his own resentment and anger at his mother, the parent who was a continuous presence in his life, because that would mean admitting even she couldn’t put him before drugs, money, or shitty men.
You can see it in the multiple name changes, the ideological flip flops, the constant awkwardness. He’s always trying on a new persona, trying to shed the version of himself that was helpless and in pain, trying to find one that makes him feel confident and important.
I have no sympathy for adult JD Vance. He has the money for therapy if he bothered to pursue it. Young Vance, however, had a million steps along the way where somebody could have reached out a hand and helped him. That’s who deserved empathy, if any.
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No self respecting drag artist/cross dresser would be caught dead looking like that – he needs a Queen to show him the way!
Any yeah – its him alright. If the MAGATs hated him before its gonna get worse for him and Dump.
My kiddo does drag and said the same thing. “I don’t know what that is, Mama, but that ain’t drag.” LOL!
LMAO!
I’m pretty sure that is a cheesy, half baked Halloween costume.
However, considering his writing about feeling gay (in his book), his guyliner, the sad, cold way he talks about his wife, and the horrifying way he talks about women at large, it wouldn’t surprise me if he secretly thinks he made a good looking woman that night.
And he has the nerve to call Kamala a”chameleon” and a phony. Who’s the phony now? This does tend to explain the eyeliner though. He’s probably wearing lingerie under his suit which would be perfectly fine if he wasn’t such a hypocrite.
Oh please, Kamala has had one name her whole life, wonder which of his names Vance was using when this pic was taken.
Out of curiosity, might this explain the “hack?” This picture is not compatible with his reputation as a part of Project 2025.
Noticed how they label the couch claims as “false”. If it had been other people involved they likely would have reported “claims” and left off the “false”.
I loved that they not only referenced it but explained it! Make me laugh! Keep repeating it, true or no, and people will believe! This is his butter emails.
He’s so far in the closet he’s part of the drywall.
LOL
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So he was allowed to express his feminine side and explore his sexuality but now that he found god and procreated he gets to control women’s bodies and monitor young girls menstrual cycles. He is the worst kind of human being.
Doesn’t drag take effort? This is just what happened after he was creeping around a strip club and snuck backstage to steal wigs.
Here we are again at the intersection of extreme, outward conservatism and ‘kinky’ sexual practices.
I would support his eyeliner wear and same sex escapades if he wasn’t such a selfish hypocrite.
As usual, I’m stunned co-citizens tolerate this hateful, opportunistic tellatuby.
That’s either eyeliner or permanent makeup via tattoos. He couldn’t be more of a hypocrite, but he’s the running mate of an octogenarian who wears pancake makeup, so I guess they are a perfect couple.
I think so as well. He’s miserable and just going through the motions of life, getting married and having kids…..sorta like a serial killer.
He is absolutely miserable about his life choices & determined to take it out on the rest of us.
Drag name: Jennifer Convertibles
“Sofa Loren” is hilarious, and JD is hypocritical if he now condemns drag, but his 2012 party costume does not suggest he’s a closeted gay.
This is an Ivy League male thing. Harvard’s Hasty Pudding does its drag thing every year, famous actors join the parade as honorees, the national press covers it, & it is deemed to be fun, not a political statement or a group of closeted gays. I suspect JD’s hetero male friends at Yale just told him to get a better wig.
I’m surprised they let him stay to take a picture. lol. That whole outfit he has on is a co out. Look like he just grabbed anything and threw it all. At least he is wearing a necklace.
I agree, fwiw, before the conservatives freaked out guys dressing up as women was kind of a regular thing (I was in HS in the 90s and remember it happening for rallies and the powderpuff game — when women played football and guys dressed up as cheerleaders. It was kind of a carnivalesque behavior — but that was also when no one at my school was openly out, so lots of things have changed). But the biggest issue here is the hypocrisy.
No, but I think his believing at one time that he was gay, makes it at least questionable.
@f@wiw, it might be time Ivy League or any schools stop this. @alarmjaguar, the powderpuff games happened in the 80s too. Looking back, mixed feelings. At the time, it was fun & games. Ignorance. Later on, I heard/learned how some classmates had to hide their feelings about so many things. This, right now isn’t about them.
It’s about Vance’s hypocrisy.
RuPaul wouldn’t let Sofa Loren past the 1st round of Drag Race auditions with that janky wig game!
The things that they say about the trans and drag queen population are ridiculous, and he spews hate as much as MTG.
The Lincoln Project just posted one with him lying on a couch.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C-k1JCzRuUa/?igsh=MXF4cGE5cWw4Z2lvYw==
In the year 2024 a human who identifies as male can wear eyeliner if he choses. But. A man who preaches hate towards people in the LBGTQ community, women, minorities and poor people who wears eyeliner is WEIRD and totally out of touch with the reality of his words. If Walz regularly wore eyeliner, the Republikkkans would never stop screaming and trying to label him as a pedo@#$%@. The megats are so weird.
Remember when Rudy Giuliani dressed in drag and Traitor Tot motorboated his fake t!ts? The hypocrisy is so, so tiresome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Guve7Y856kY
I cannot stand this piece of human excrement but the comments about him being a closeted gay because he wears eyeliner and wore a wig once are just not it, guys. Come TF on and let’s do better. No self-respecting REAL gay man would call this drag.
Of course it doesn’t matter, in general, if someone wears drag: the issue is the hypocrisy. Also, I we sure it’s only once that he’s warn women’s clothes? Again, I don’t think it matters if he’s gay
JD, long before he became Peter Thei’s rightwing boy toy, believed himself to be gay. But he became “heterosexual” because a pastor told him he’ll go to hell for being gay. Now he’s become a champion of those who hate some of the most venerable people in this country. So yeh, it matters that he wears women’s makeup and women’s clothes.
I’m very surprised that no one has underearthed 2000 clip of Trump and Rudy meeting in a department store. Rudy is in full drag. Trump flirts with Rudy, kisses him and gets to 2nd base.
https://youtu.be/qhtD0OtNfLQ?si=8mGreb39Af5AdZHx