Did Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey tell Vice President J.D. Vance to “go fuck a couch” in an X post? No, that’s not true: Vance did quote a real post from Frey on X in a discussion about law enforcement and other people needing to feel safe calling 911, but the reply suggesting intercourse with a piece of furniture came from a parody account. The parody label was not immediately visible to all users due to the layout of X on certain screen sizes.
The quote appeared in a quote post on X (archived here) published on January 28, 2026 by the account @Mayor_Frey_:
This is a lie.
Even if I had ordered this, the MPLS police department would never follow an order from me.
Do better. Go fuck a couch.
This is what the post looked like to many X users:
Image: screenshot of @Mayor_Frey_ post on x.com
The @Mayor_Frey_ account (archived here) is not Frey’s actual X account, and the full name in the bio reads “Mayor of Minneapolis Jacob Frey (Parody)”.
Image: screenshot of @Mayor_Frey_ post on x.com
The post J.D. Vance made (archived here) was responding to a post that did come from @MayorFrey (archived here), Frey’s actual X account:
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Memes about J.D. Vance and a couch find their origin in a false story about a non-existent passage in Vance’s book “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis”.