Elizabeth Warren Wraps DNC Speech with Trump-Vance Zinger: ‘I Wouldn’t Trust Those Guys to Move My Couch!’
The former presidential candidate’s tearful speech ended on a lighter note, as she poked fun at the Republican VP candidate’s “couch controversy”
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Elizabeth Warren doesn’t want J.D. Vance near her couch.
While speaking at the Democratic National Convention in support of presidential candidate Kamala Harris on Thursday, Aug. 22, Warren, 75, seemingly played into a viral joke about Vance and couches.
Warren, who placed third in the 2020 Democratic primaries and still has a strong fan base, paused before speaking to take in the standing ovation she received from the convention attendees. She became visibly emotional by the response.
“And there it is — groceries, gas, housing, healthcare, taxes, abortion,” Warren said at the podium, making mention of policies that Harris, 59, has been campaigning for.
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“Trust Donald Trump and J. D. Vance to look out for your family? Shoot, I wouldn’t let those guys — I wouldn’t trust them to move my couch,” she quipped.
Returning to the topic at hand after her not-so-subtle joke at the DNC, Warren said, “We need Kamala Harris. This election is about your family and your future.”
After Vance was named Trump’s running mate, false rumors circulated online that there was an entry in Vance’s memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, about him being intimate with a couch. The Associated Press ran a fact-check on the book and found multiple instances of the word “couch,” but none connected to a sexual act.
The AP later retracted their fact-check, saying that the piece “didn’t go through our standard editing process,” per media website Mediaite.
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Former President Bill Clinton was also present at the DNC the day prior in support of Harris. During his Wednesday, Aug. 21, speech he briefly focused in on Trump’s age.
“The only personal vanity that I want to assert is that I’m still younger than Donald Trump,” Clinton joked.
Though both former presidents are 78 years old, Clinton turned 78 on Aug. 19, while Trump was born in June.
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Before finishing, Clinton brought up Trump’s tendency to analyze his crowd sizes, saying, “So, we’ve got to ask ourselves the question: Do you want to build a strong economy from the bottom, up, and the middle, out — or do you want to spend the next four years talking about crowd size?”
