“America’s Favorite Governor,” Gavin Newsom, just went for the jugular in a hilarious, albeit bizarre, new AI-generated video that takes aim at Vice President J.D. Vance and his infamous rumored love for upholstered living room furniture.
In recent weeks, Newsom and his social media team have thrown their gloves off and gone full-throttle against President Donald Trump and his entire administration, making a full-time job out of brutally and relentlessly trolling these fools on X at every turn.
For several weeks now, we’ve seen Newsom tweet out “press releases” and “statements” in the notorious, shouty-caps style of the president.
But now, it seems Gavin and his team have directed their attention towards Donald’s right-hand man, J.D. Vance.
Newsom delivered a one-two punch straight to the VP’s proverbial throat in a new post that hit at the hilarious (though untrue) rumors that Vance wrote about engaging in intimate relations with a couch in his younger years in his Hillbilly Elegy memoir, as well as the (very real) unearthed photos of the now Vice President sporting a blonde wig and a dress during his time at Yale — all tucked into a positively brutal AI-generated video that will undoubtedly leave Vance crying all his eyeliner off in the bathroom this afternoon.
In the deepfake clip posted to X by the official Governor Newsom Press Office, a young Vance can be seen donning a blonde wig, a black skirt, and a chunky necklace as the AI-generated version of him dances around with his hands in his hair before cutting to a more current clip of the Vice President saying, “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. But what I don’t understand is why people are so obsessed with this other thing, couch intimacy.”
“Look, couches are comfortable, they’re dependable. They support you when you’re down. If you can’t appreciate that kind of bond, maybe you’re the one with issues,” the AI-generated version of Vance goes on to say.
The now-infamous J.D. Vance couch joke went viciously viral in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election, gaining so much steam that even Kamala Harris’ VP pick, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, referenced it onstage following the announcement that he was chosen as Harris’ running mate, effectively igniting raucous laughter and cheers from the crowd.
Newsom’s team didn’t stop at the drag and the couch, though. The California governor went no-holds-barred as the deepfake video went on to take aim at the claims that Vance wears eyeliner, and even hit on the VP’s now-infamous Oval Office demand that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky say “thank you” to President Trump during their heated meeting earlier this year.
“I feel so much better just being able to get this off my chest and give you piece of s–t internet bullies a piece of my mind,” says the AI-generated Vance. “Now grow up and go get a job.”
The humiliating clip lasts nearly a minute and a half before finally closing on AI-generated Vance twerking in the blonde wig and dress.
The original photo of Vance dressed in drag is said to have been taken during a Halloween Party at Yale Law School in 2012.
While the deepfake clip may seem a little immature at first glance, Newsom and his team are merely fighting fire with fire at this point, as their AI clip of Vance went public on the heels of Donald Trump’s decision to post a deeply racist AI-generated video of Democratic leaders Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, in which Jeffries is wearing a sombrero with a handlebar moustache alongside Schumer, whose AI-generated voice says, “nobody likes Democrats because of woke trans bulls–t,” before going on to falsely claim that the Democratic party is giving free healthcare to undocumented immigrants because they’re desperate for “new voters.”
Trump then went on to double down on the weirdness when he posted yet another deepfake video of Jefferies condemning his first round of deepfake videos. The interview with Jefferies was real, but Trump’s version featured an AI-generated mariachi band made up of multiple Trump figures and added another moustache and sombrero to Jefferies’ face — because it’s just not a Trump joke if it doesn’t have racism in it.
You can watch the clip posted by Newsom and his team as many times as you want, right here:
WOW! JD, SUCH AN ODD GUY! pic.twitter.com/HNNiURnRoE
— Governor Newsom Press Office (@GovPressOffice) October 1, 2025
Featured image via screen capture from AI video posted by Governor Newsom Press Office
Andrea is a full-time political reporter with more than 10 years of experience in the field. She serves as a writer for Liberal Agenda as well as the onwner and operator of The Resistance Report.
When she's not covering Trump's BS, you can find her mom-ing her feminist-in-training, trolling MAGA in her comments section, and behaving as an overall Menace to Society.
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