Childless cat lady memes mock remarks made by Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance about Democrats such as Vice President Kamala Harris. Vance’s comments trashing women who don’t have children, whether by choice or biological or environmental circumstance, have not gone over well with much of the massive voter block.

“We are effectively run in this country, via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too,” said Donald Trump’s running mate. “And it’s just a basic fact if you look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC—the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children.”

What are the childless cat lady memes about?

In response to this derision towards women who have cats but no children, people have been posting photos of their favorite ladies who love cats as "childless cat lady" memes. These include widely beloved figures with mass numbers of fans such as singer Taylor Swift and the late actress and animal lover Betty White.

JD Vance's "childless cat lady" remarks

Vance made the "childless cat lady" remarks on July 29, 2021, on an episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight. The then-Ohio Senator was trying to claim that people can only feel as though they have a stake in their nation's future if they have biological children.

Harris is the stepmother of two children brought into her life by her husband, attorney Doug Emhoff after they met on a blind date in 2013.

The childless cat lady memes of 2024 began to pop up around Twitter on July 22, just after Vance's old comments resurfaced amid hype for Harris' presidential campaign.

What's with the childless cat lady hate?

The stereotype of the childless cat lady or "crazy" cat lady mixes contempt for the image of the "spinster" that originated in the 18th century with the even older fear of the witch who keeps cats and is more likely to eat children than birth them.

In 1881, writer Hart Ayrault bemoaned the unmarried, childless woman who had "failed in the prime object of existence"—which, at least for women in Vance's view, was marrying a man and popping out kids.

"Tradition associates her with cats and parrots, on which she is supposed to lavish all that is left of affection in her withered heart," he wrote in Potter’s American Monthly.

Jennifer Aniston responds to Vance

On July 24, actress Jennifer Aniston posted to Instagram Stories, lambasting Vance for his statements in a rare foray into politics.

"I truly can’t believe this is coming from a potential VP of The United States," the video text read. "All I can say is… Mr. Vance, I pray that your daughter is fortunate enough to bear children of her own one day. I hope she will not need to turn to IVF as a second option. Because you are trying to take that away from her, too."

Aniston herself struggled with fertility difficulties, undergoing IVF and other treatments for a time in her late 30s and into her 40s. Her attempts to get pregnant were ultimately unsuccessful. She is more of a dog lady, however.

Vance has since doubled down during an appearance on The Megyn Kelly Show last week. “Obviously, it was a sarcastic comment,” he said. "I’ve got nothing against cats.”

“People are focusing so much on the sarcasm and not on the substance of what I actually said. And the substance of what I said, I’m sorry, it’s true.”

Childless cat ladies would like a word

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Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance’s (R-Ohio) public profile has changed tremendously since his now-running mate former President Donald Trump first ran for president in 2016. Vance, then a venture capitalist and author of the successful memoir Hillbilly Elegy, was a harsh critic of Trump and used to openly describe him as an “idiot,” wondering whether he might be “America’s Hitler” in a Facebook conversation with a friend.

As Vance radicalized over the course of a successful Ohio Senate campaign, he reconciled with Trump while becoming a fixture of MAGA politics in his own right.

“I allowed myself to focus so much on the stylistic element of Trump that I completely ignored the way in which he substantively was offering something very different on foreign policy, on trade, on immigration,” Vance told the New York Times’ Ross Douthat in June this year.

Along the way, his personal style also shifted, going from the baby-faced blogger of yore to a sitting senator. Vance grew a beard, got sharper haircuts, and settled into a professional suit and tie.

Some people think he hasn’t stopped there though, and are speculating that he’s also wearing eyeliner.

Is JD Vance wearing eyeliner?

On TikTok, the theories have been swirling since Trump announced the pick.

“This is unserious political commentary but I can’t stop thinking about it,” @mamasissiesays said in one video posted on June 19. “Is JD Vance wearing eyeliner?”

The TikToker, who goes by Casey, compared stylized photos of Vance with his official Senate portrait, as well as how he looked on TV appearances.

“No eyeliner to see here … that’s very much a man not wearing eyeliner,” Casey said about his Senate portrait, then contrasted it with a TV appearance. “Obviously something’s going on here,” she commented, “along with some contour, I’d love to know his shade.”

“That is a bold line just a few millimeters over and he’ll have a proper cat-eye on his hands,” she added, zooming in on one shot of Vance’s eye.

“We’re fine with men who wear makeup,” she specified. “What we’re not fine with is hypocrites who make … harmful policies against men who wear makeup.”

She also claimed to have found Vance’s shade, a “deep taupe-gray matte” glide-on eye pencil called “Urban Decay Desperation.”

It's a fitting color for a man who chucked his liberal values to latch on to a candidate decrying crime-riddled American metropolises.

Casey wasn’t the only TikToker who noticed the eyeliner. @skyeleight55, who goes by Skye Dawn on the platform, reacted to Casey’s video with a screenshot of Vance she said she’d taken because she had the exact same thought

“You cannot tell me he’s not sitting there … [with] foundation, eye liner, and filler,” Skye Dawn said.

Another TikToker offered the full JD Vance makeup tutorial for his national debut at the Republican National Convention.

In the post, they draw on a really “tight” eyeliner, both above and “under your eye like you are a 14-year-old girl in 2006," that, along with mascara "makes our eyes look sunken and like we're worried for America."

The Trump-Vance campaign didn’t answer questions about whether they were employing a makeup artist for Vance. Multiple people who worked for Vance in the Senate also didn’t answer questions about his makeup regime. Plenty of politicians wear makeup today on the campaign trail and under the glare of stage and television lights.

Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon blamed his loss in 1960 against John F. Kennedy at least partially on the fact that he refused to wear makeup during their televised debate. Polling before the TV faceoff had Nixon six points up, but his haggard appearance turned voters off.

Kriss Blevens, who’s done campaign makeup for dozens of presidential candidates over the years, also didn’t respond to questions about whether Vance was sporting eyeliner.

But this wouldn't be the first aesthetic secret of a politician outed by TikTok.

Online theories about the footwear of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) did him no favors in a brutal Republican primary campaign against Trump. TikTokers speculated that DeSantis was wearing a wedge shoe to increase his height, something he denied but which led to numerous awkward questions about the boots, and even an attack from Trump, who accused him of wearing high heels.

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Ever since former President Donald Trump announced Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) as his running mate in the 2024 presidential election, Vance has dealt with some peculiar criticisms. Some joked that Vance had a sexual relationship with a couch. Others claimed that Vance once shared a screenshot on X that showed him having searched for a video of a woman and a dolphin being intimate.

Now, people are just saying he's weird, including Vice President Kamala Harris' official campaign X account. Harris is running for the Democratic nomination for president.

"JD Vance is weird and creepy," @KamalaHQ tweeted on Friday regarding Vance's comments about a "federal response" to stop women from traveling to other states to get an abortion.

In response, many right-wing influencers and well-known online figures posted memes, images, and videos to prove that the people who call Vance weird are actually weird themselves. Many of these posts focus on drag queens, non-binary and trans people, and the LGBTQ community in general.

Donald Trump Jr. posted a video of Harris high-fiving drag queen Pattiegonia, whose real name is Wyn Wiley. In the video, Harris and Wiley reference Kylie Minogue's song "Padam Padam." Wiley was invited by the Biden administration to the White House to celebrate Pride Month and has met with lawmakers about climate change.

"'JD Vance is weird' - Team Kamala Harris," Trump Jr. said on X yesterday.

Phillip Buchanan, who goes by Catturd online and has almost 3 million followers on X, also posted a photo of Harris and Wiley.

"JD Vance is so weird," he wrote.

Buchanan also posted a photo of Admiral Rachel Levine, who is the Department of Health and Human Services' Assistant Secretary of Health. Levine is trans.

Chaya Raichik, who runs @LibsOfTikTok, posted a video of Harris with Queer Eye star Jonathan Van Ness, who is non-binary. Raichik posts about LGBTQ educators online and her tweets have been connected to more than twenty bomb threats across the country.

Other prominent right-wing accounts posted similar tweets. Mostly Peaceful Latinas, a conservative podcast hosted by Linda Catalina and Isabella Rodriguez, posted photos of Rose Montoya and Dylan Mulvaney on its X account.

Montoya was invited to the White House for Pride Month in 2023, where she posed for photos topless. According to a statement from White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, Montoya is no longer welcome at the White House. She is trans.

Mulvaney, who is also trans, is an influencer who is well-known for her "Days of Girlhood" series in which she documented the ins and outs of her transition. Last year, she partnered with Bud Light which resulted in a huge right-wing boycott of the beer brand.

"'JD Vance is weird,'" the account wrote.

@GrandOldMemes, a conservative meme account with over 575,000 followers, took a different approach: It posted a meme that features the anti-semitic hate symbol "the happy merchant" with signs that say "Harris for President" and "Protect Trans Kids."

Vance's response to the hullaballoo was to post a video of Harris saying her pronouns at a 2020 CNN Town Hall.

In his less than two years in the Senate, Vance has introduced anti-trans legislation and made many anti-LGBTQ statements.

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People cannot get enough of the J.D. Vance couch meme after a tweet falsely claimed that the Trump VP pick had made love to a sofa. Despite multiple articles debunking the post, and one which only helped to fuel tongue-in-cheek speculation, jokes about the U.S. Senator having relations with and being sexually attracted to furniture have continued into the week.

Social media users have now produced videos, limericks, and fake press releases related to the rumor.

J.D. Vance and the couch

If you missed it, you might want to sit down (but not on a couch). The reason this J.D. Vance couch meme is going around is because one single Twitter user decided to sow chaos by declaring that Donald Trump's running mate admitted in his 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy to getting down with a latex glove inserted between two couch cushions.

The pages cited contain no such admission, and that individual followed it up with the meme from Arthur saying: "You really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?"

Technically, the only thing Vance did wrong was to put himself in the spotlight by trying to be the next U.S. Vice President.

Why is the J.D. Vance couch meme still a thing?

The pushback from fact-checking outlets and Twitter Community Notes has only perpetuated the joke. On July 25, 2024, The Associated Press published and then deleted an article debunking the claim about Vance's affinity for sofas.

The fact that the article was deleted didn't make people think that the rumor was true, but pretending it did became a joke of its own.

As of July 26, the Vance couch jokes are still going strong.

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The Associated Press (AP) deleted an article fact-checking the false claim that Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) made love to a couch, a move that has bolstered the belief among some that the allegation is actually true.

Earlier this month, a false claim went viral on X that Vance, who was recently chosen to be Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's running mate, admitted to having sex with a couch in his 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis.

The claim quickly went viral and produced countless memes on social media. But, as reported by the Daily Dot, the allegation isn't true and no such passage exists in Vance's book.

Yet the AP's now-removed fact-check is leading some to revive not just the claim but the memes as well.

"AP fact-checked what was a joke from left-wing Twitter - but the link for this is dead now and I can no longer find the story on the AP website. What is going on?" asked CNN's Andy Kaczynski.

Others joked that the AP's retraction was even funnier than the meme itself, which many were aware was a joke from the beginning.

"The AP retracting their Fact Check of JD Vance having relations with a glove wedged in the cushions of a couch is ten times funnier than them publishing it in the first place which in turn is ten times funnier than the actual allegation," another said.

The AP eventually came forward to state that it deleted the fact-check due to issues with the article's editorial process.

"The story, which did not go out on the wire to our customers, didn't go through our standard editing process," an AP spokesperson said. "We are looking into how that happened."

But for those in on the joke, the AP's statement only added fuel to the fire.

"The only thing that @AP can definitively say based on their own reporting is that JD Vance didn't write about having fucked a 'couch' or 'sofa' in his memoir," another said. "There is no evidence whatsoever that he's not shagging the settee."

Although the Vance-couch saga has been debunked, it doesn't seem to matter anymore. Couch memes will almost certainly follow Vance until the internet gloms on to something else.

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Right-wingers online are miffed Jennifer Aniston criticized Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance for claiming in 2021 that the U.S. was being run by "childless cat ladies."

Aniston weighed in on a recirculating Fox News clip from 2021 where Vance complained that "we're effectively run in this country, via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too."

Vance—who at the time was running for Senate—specifically called out Vice President Kamala Harris, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) for not having children.

“And it’s just a basic fact—you look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC—the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children," Vance said. "And how does it make any sense that we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t really have a direct stake in it?”

Harris does not have biological children but has been a stepmother for nearly ten years. Buttigieg, at the time of Vance's remarks, was in the process of trying to adopt. The Buttigiegs announced the birth of their adopted twins in September 2021.

The Friends star wrote on her Instagram story Wednesday: “I truly can't believe this is coming from a potential VP of The United States."

"Mr. Vance, I pray that your daughter is fortunate enough to bear children of her own one day," she continued. "I hope she will not need to turn to IVF as a second option. Because you are trying to take that away from her, too."

In June, Vance, along with the vast majority of Republican senators, blocked The Right to IVF Act, which would have codified the right to in vitro fertilization and lowered its cost.

Republicans criticized the bill as an election-year stunt, though Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Katie Britt (R-Ala.) did introduce a competing bill. That bill did not move forward due to opposition by one of The Right to IVF Act's sponsors, who argued it would create burdensome requirements that would force IVF clinics to close.

Aniston does not have any children but previously spoke out in a 2022 cover story for Allure about undergoing multiple rounds of IVF.

“I was trying to get pregnant. It was a challenging road for me, the baby-making road,” Aniston said.

She added: "I was going through IVF, drinking Chinese teas, you name it. I was throwing everything at it. I would’ve given anything if someone had said to me, ‘Freeze your eggs. Do yourself a favor.’ You just don’t think it. So here I am today. The ship has sailed.”

In the wake of Aniston's criticism, fans of Vance are hitting back hard—and some are even targeting the actress for lacking children.

"Jennifer Aniston is 55 years old, childless, and miserable," wrote one X account.

"LMAO Jennifer Aniston should've found someone when she was in her prime," sniped another. "Too bad so sad.. Have fun with your cats."

"Jennifer Aniston is an attractive woman. She's also got psychological & personality problems," someone else asserted. "That's why every man she's ever entered a relationship with left her & never looked back. Her opinion of Trump & Vance isn't worth shit."

Right-wing commentator Ian Miles Cheong took a swipe at Aniston too, saying, "Oh no, the cat ladies are offended."

But many others did not hesitate to defend Aniston and echo her criticism.

"Jennifer Aniston has dogs. Not cats," quipped one person.

"I have been trying to warn every conservative man I know - these JD comments are activating women across all sides, including my most conservative Trump supporting friends," said Meghan McCain. "These comments have caused real pain and are just innately unchristian. This is not who we are."

Echoed someone else: "Childless cat lady rhetoric and going against IVF might just pave the way to lose the elections. These men have completely underestimated how triggering women’s fertility journeys have been. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned - and who could not have children…"

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Democrats focused their messaging upon the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 program in recent weeks, with mentions of the over 900-page uber-conservative policy document tripling since the beginning of June, according to an analysis by the Washington Post. 

That push has some Republicans distancing themselves from the project, including their 2024 nominee former President Donald Trump. But despite Trump’s attempts to back away from the policy proposal, he may have a hard time pretending his ticket doesn’t endorse it. His vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance wrote the foreword to a book by the architect of the agenda, which is coming out in September.

An Amazon presale page for "Dawn's Early Light: Taking Back Washington to Save America” has been circulating online, tagging Vance as the man behind the foreword. 

The "Dawn's Early Light" sales copy explicitly references Project 2025.

"Heritage Foundation president and Project 2025 head Kevin Roberts outlines a peaceful 'Second American Revolution' for voters looking to shift the power back into the hands of the people," it reads.

Vance, prior to his selection as Trump's vice presidential pick, tweeted about his eagerness to endorse the book.

Roberts, who is the president of the Heritage Foundation, said at the beginning of July that the project was part of a “Second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

Vance's own words in his blurb for the book are a nod to violent revolution.

“Never before has a figure with Roberts’s depth and stature within the American Right tried to articulate a genuinely new future for conservatism ... We are now all realizing that it’s time to circle the wagons and load the muskets. In the fights that lay ahead, these ideas are an essential weapon,” Vance wrote. 

But its stark vision shocked those on the left and is being used to galvanize Democrats.

“It is really important that voters understand that Donald Trump in a second term would be far worse, far more dangerous and far more extreme than he was even in his first term,” TJ Ducklo, a senior adviser to the then-Biden campaign, told the Post in the first week of July. “That is a core argument that we are making and must continue to make to voters, and Project 2025 is one of the most effective ways we can make that point.”

Vice President Kamala Harris, now the presumptive Democratic Party nominee, has also made Project 2025 an early focus in her campaign, evoking the threat of it at a rally at the Indiana Convention Center on Wednesday.

“We must also recognize there are those who are trying to take us backward," Harris said in her speech. "Can you believe they put that in writing? This represents an outright attack on our children, our families and our future. These extremists want to take us back, but we are not going back."

The Daily Dot has not reviewed the full text of the book’s foreword by Vance but has reached out to HarperCollins.

Trump made opposition to the plan part of his campaign speech over the brewing public backlash.

At the beginning of July, Trump posted on Truth Social saying that he “know[s] nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it. I disagree with some of the things they’re saying and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal. Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them.”

“They read some of the things, and they are extreme,” Trump said about the project during his speech at his first rally with Vance in Georgia this week. “They’re seriously extreme.”

“But I don’t know anything about it,” Trump said standing in front of a Trump-Vance 2024 podium. “I don’t want to know anything about it.”

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The J.D. Vance couch memes reference a debunked rumor claiming that Trump’s VP pick had sex with a latex glove shoved between sofa cushions. The rumor was started by a Twitter user and spread quickly across social media (for obvious reasons) until it was debunked by Snopes and other fact-checking outlets.

Even though many people are now aware that the rumor isn’t true, the idea combined with the unpopularity of the potential future vice president among some U.S. voters continues to fuel the spread of one of the best J.D. Vance memes yet.

What is the J.D. Vance couch meme?

Since you dared to ask, all those memes mentioning Vance and a couch refer to a tweet by Twitter user @rickrudescalves that made a false claim about these subjects.

“Can’t say for sure but he might be the first VP pick to have admitted in a NY Times bestseller to f—ing an inside-out latex glove shoved between two couch cushions,” they wrote.

They followed this up with a citation from Vance’s 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy. However, the pages referenced make no mention of any kind of relationship Vance may have had with any piece of furniture.

Regardless, people jumped on the chance to make jokes about the U.S. Senator boinking a sofa, posting photos of dirty couches (and we mean that in more than one way), and using previous meme formats to suggest that Vance is a sofa fetishist.

Origins of the J.D. Vance couch meme

Although the original jokester set their account to private after the meme went viral, internet archives show the date of the tweet as July 15, 2024—just after former President Donald Trump announced that Vance was his choice for a running mate. Vance had been on Trump's shortlist for vice president for some time. Notably, this list did not include former VP Mike Pence after he and Trump had a falling out, so to speak.

Vance published the referenced source in June 2016, which helped him climb into his political career, although some folks from the same area or who feel they have a better claim to the word "hillbilly" have disputed the idea that Vance knows what it's like to grow up in poor rural country.

It remains unclear why this Twitter user decided to make this particular claim, but it may have been a random attempt to sow chaos. If so, mission accomplished. They reportedly followed the tweet up with a "go on the internet and tell lies" meme, but this did not slow the rumor's spread.

Spread of the J.D. Vance couch meme and subsequent rumor debunking

Online rumors have a way of catching on no matter how ridiculous the content is, as most users won't put in the effort to fact-check the claim. This Twitter account set up the J.D. Vance couch lovemaking claim particularly well with a fake citation. After all, the people who wanted to believe it were least likely to own a copy of Hillbilly Elegy.

As usual, the rumor was helped along by other Twitter users who confidently reposted the claim as fact, with some using the same page numbers from the book, including @wunderba666 on July 18. The false claim was further helped along by popular pundit, internet personality, and reply guy Ed Krassenstein.

"Don’t tell me that Kamala Harris isn’t qualified for her job," Krassenstein wrote. "While Harris was locking up murderers and robbers as San Francisco Assistant DA, J.D. Vance was busy fornicating with inside-out latex gloves shoved between couch cushions. (Look it up!)"

Even those who are savvy enough to recognize a false rumor when they see one spread the jokes because sometimes, it's just too funny to ignore. By July 23, the meme was popular enough to earn a Snopes entry labeling the claim as categorically false.

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People online are being duped by the claim that Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), who was recently picked as former President Donald Trump's running mate, previously admitted to having sex with a couch.

Where the JD Vance-couch rumor began

The rumor, which isn't true, first appeared on social media last week but didn't start going viral until recent days. On July 15, a user on X alleged that Vance wrote in his 2016 memoir, "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis," that he once stuck his penis into "an inside-out latex glove shoved between two couch cushions."

The original post from the X account, which has since gone private, has been gaining steam. The claim comes from those who seem to think the rumor is genuine.

"In his dreadful novel, 'Hillbilly Elegy,' JD Vance described having sex with a rubber glove secured between cushions on his couch," one user wrote. "Republicans chose him to be one heartbeat away from becoming POTUS. Voters in NC, the U.S. furniture capital, should be particularly horrified."

The Vance couch memes

As the rumor became more prominent, so did the reactions. Countless memes related to Vance and his couch have been rampant online ever since.

Even those who were aware that the claim wasn't true couldn't help but join in on the meme-making. One such user shared a fabricated press release from Vance in which he pushed back on those criticizing his fondness for his couch.

"I reject and rebuke the scurrilous rumors circulating about me on X and other platforms," the fake letter had Vance say. "Never in my life have I had sexual relations with a couch to completion. This is a life. Furthermore, I can assure you I haven't had any bare-skin contact with a couch in over five years."

One video mocking Vance and the false rumor about a relationship with his couch, set to the Barry White song "Never, Never Gonna Give Ya Up," has already been seen over 866,000 times on X.

Vance made no such admission in his book.

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Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance appears to listen to artists who, much like himself, have publicly criticized his 2024 running mate former President Donald Trump.

A Spotify profile with his name—and a 2021 photo of himself with his dad at a Trump rally—shows the current Ohio senator following three accounts: Imagine Dragons, Rage Against the Machine, and a lawyer who graduated from Yale Law School the same year he did.

It's unclear when it may have last been used, though the playlists were made between 2012-13. However, Vance himself confirmed in January that he is a Spotify user, writing on X that he was "listening to the best of 1990 rock playlist on Spotify (my current jam)."

The profile shows seven public playlists, five of which he curated. Those include playlists named "Making Dinner," "Running #1," and "Soul+" as well as two playlists titled after songs—"Morning Has Broken" by Cat Stevens and "Gold On The Ceiling" by The Black Keys.

The two playlists he did not create are Spotify's compilation of acoustic covers and "Rockabye Baby!" a nearly 21-hour-long playlist of lullaby renditions of classic rock and pop songs. (Vance has three children, ages 6; 4; and 2.)

The Daily Dot reached out to Vance's Senate office to confirm the authenticity of the account but has not yet heard back.

Much of the media attention on Trump selecting Vance as his running mate focused on the senator's shift from being an outspoken critic of Trump and a self-proclaimed Never Trumper to becoming one of his fiercest advocates.

In 2016, Vance dubbed Trump an "idiot," a possible “America’s Hitler” and "unfit for our nation’s highest office." He has since done a complete 180, saying in January that "the Republican Party without Donald Trump is a disaster, morally and politically."

And it seems that Vance's Spotify playlists are filled with artists who have also taken aim at Trump.

On the 40-minute "Making Dinner" playlist, created in 2012, Vance included Justin Bieber's "One Time." Bieber in 2019 commended Trump's efforts to get A$AP Rocky out of Swedish custody but simultaneously took a dig, asking "while (you’re) at it...can you also let those kids out of cages?"

The "Gold on the Ceiling" playlist is filled with artists who have taken an anti-Trump stance, including Sheryl Crow, who in 2017 floated supporting impeaching Trump; Lisa Loeb, a vocal proponent of voting blue; and Ryan Adams, who called Trump "a fucking moron."

That playlist includes Death Cab for Cutie, which in 2016 released an anti-Trump song called "Million Dollar Loan" that was specifically “written and recorded by musicians for a Trump-free America.”

There's also Tracy Chapman, who called on everyone in 2020 to "vote to restore our democracy;" Billy Bragg, who derided "strong undercurrents of racism and misogyny" among Trump's base; U2, whose frontman Bono has done little to hide his disdain for Trump; and more.

It's perhaps unavoidable to have a playlist without any Trump critics, with so much of the music industry based out of liberal-leaning cities such as Los Angeles and New York. But notably absent from Vance's public playlists are prominent Trump-supporting musicians, such as Ted Nugent, Kid Rock, and Trace Adkins. Only one artist on one of his public playlists appears to be a vocal supporter of Trump: Travis Tritt.

Vance, for all his self-proclaimed Appalachia credentials, seems to have the music sensibilities of an urban hipster millennial, which makes sense given his East Coast Ivy League background.

On Vance's running playlist, made in 2013, anti-Trump artists included Queens of the Stone Age, who offered one of the strongest Trump criticisms of any musician mentioned yet, dubbing him in 2017 a "shallow, inept, multi-bankrupt declaring, narcissistic, narrow minded, out of touch, objectifying, barf inducing, fascist, clown penis… who also happens to be re-stup-redicu-lame."

Also on the running playlist are OK Go, who performed an anti-Trump cover of Morrissey's "Interesting Drug"; The Killers, who have made their political stance clear; and Matt and Kim, who took a couple of swings at Trump (literally) by tossing the audience at Coachella a Trump pinata.

His "Morning Has Broken" playlist similarly boasts a mix of artists that have been critical of Trump.

Among them are Bonnie Raitt, who said Trump's White House tenure made things become "more absurd and more difficult and more scary and depressing than I ever even expected;" Joe Biden proponents James Taylor and Roberta Flack; and Kacey Musgraves, who said in 2020 that voting for Trump is "an act of violence" against the LGBT community. The playlist also includes Badly Drawn Boy, who tweeted a photo of a Donald Duck-Donald Trump mash-up farting.

He does have some nods to his supposed country roots on the playlist, which include Carrie Underwood and Lady A.

On the "Soul+" playlist, most of the included artists passed away long before ever needing an opinion on Trump. Stevie Wonder, however, is an exception to that, quipping at the start of the Black Lives Matter movement that “it’s a bad day when I can see better than your 2020 vision."

None of this is to say Vance only listens to anti-Trump artists. Plenty of other musicians on the playlists have taken stances about specific policies, had some band members outspoken more than others, or have refrained from weighing in altogether.

And as Vance will attest, his politics have changed. Whether his taste in music has too is unknown.

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