Stephen Colbert Flips JD Vance’s Trump Defense With X-Rated Sombrero-Sofa Meme

Stephen Colbert turned his sights on Vice President JD Vance Thursday night, unleashing a pointed X-rated sofa-themed meme after Vance came to the defense of President Donald Trump’s stream of sombrero AI “jokes” mocking Democratic leaders.

Throughout the week, Trump had posted clips targeting House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, depicting the Democrat in a sombrero with mariachi music.

Vance brushed off concerns during a White House presser Thursday, telling reporters: “Oh, I think it’s funny. The president’s joking and we’re having a good time.” He went further, making a “solemn promise” to end the memes if Jeffries agreed to a shutdown-ending deal with the White House.

That line was enough to give Colbert his opening.

“If that’s how we’re doing it, JD, then we here at The Late Show also enjoy humor,” the host declared.

He proceeded to roll a heavily censored AI animation of Vance humping a sofa while wearing a sombrero in callback to an internet hoax that falsely claimed Vance once wrote about such an encounter in his memoir. The rumor, long debunked, was recycled through online memes during the 2024 campaign.

After showing the AI sofa-sex clip, Colbert flipped Vance’s defense of Trump.

“We’re joking,” Colbert told viewers. “We’re having a good time.”

Offering Vance his own version of the Jeffries bargain, Colbert jabbed: “If you resign as VP, I won’t keep showing that every chance I get. And I definitely won’t put it on all of our socials so people can share it and maybe roll it on a loop during their holiday parties this year.”

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