Second Photo Alleged to Show JD Vance in Drag Posted Online

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Daily Beast

Updated Aug. 12, 2024 1:13PM EDT / Published Aug. 12, 2024 12:35PM EDT


Photo illustration by The Daily Beast


A second image of JD Vance allegedly dressed as a woman in a blonde wig has been posted to X, formerly known as Twitter. The post reads simply: “a second photo has hit my inbox.”

It appears to show a man in drag wearing the same wig and costume as in an earlier image said to have been snapped by a Yale classmate in 2012.

A spokesperson for Donald Trump’s running mate did not deny that the first photo posted on X was authentic when approached for comment by the Daily Beast. The second photo shows the subject looking down at the camera with hands behind their neck. It was posted on the same account as the first picture.

Travis Whitfill, the source of the alleged photo, said it was taken by a classmate at Yale and sent to him. He, in turn, sent it to Matt Bernstein, the A Bit Fruity podcast host, who posted it online.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/second-photo-alleging-to-be-jd-vance-in-drag-posted-online

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11:34 AM · Aug 12, 2024

[Walleye]

1. And he's workin' it

[displacedvermoter]

2. Leaked by a Trumpist to justify throwing him

off the ticket?

[SilasSouleII]

39. Plausable

And there may be more, maybe more incriminating.

[Bengus81]

63. Possibly...but then Trump would have to admit being horribly wrong. n/t

[bucolic_frolic]

3. So the reason he's gotten somewhere in life is that someone has something on him?

Shay-dee, we know you like the frilly clothes, you'll do what we want, no?

[displacedvermoter]

66. Crushed by Eyeliner

REM reference!

[MMBeilis]

78. Help me out. I love REM but don't get the reference.

[displacedvermoter]

82. From Monster - Crush With Eyeliner (in re: JD Vance and his alleged use thereof)

I know you
I know you've seen her
She's a sad tomato
She's three miles of bad road
Walking down the street
Will I never meet her?
She's a real woman-child
Oh, my kiss breath turpentine

[Chorus]
I am smitten
I'm the real thing (I'm the real thing)
Have you seen her come around?
My crush with eyeliner

[MMBeilis]

92. Thanks. I'll be in my rabbit hole the rest of the week listening to Monster.

[displacedvermoter]

93. My favorite REM album

Though I realize not the one die hards would go with

[Ramsey Barner]

4. Stolen Velour (image)

[DBoon]

10. Some things are so horrible you can never unsee them

[claudette]

5. Not sure

how this proves anything bad about him. What was the occasion? Lots of men wear female costumes. How is this bad?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. The Republican party, including Shady Vance, preaches against this.

[claudette]

8. I know they're against

drag but this may have been a Halloween costume. I’m not defending this weirdo. I’m just asking how it hurts him?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

12. It shines a spotlight on his hypocrisy

Vance introduced the so-called Protect Children’s Innocence Act, which seeks to criminalize gender-affirming care for minors, and his efforts to erase LGBTQ+ identities from the U.S. census. Vance has also introduced the Passport Sanity Act, which aims to ban the use of “X” gender markers on U.S. passports, and has repeatedly spread false rhetoric about LGBTQ+ issues, including labeling those who oppose anti-LGBTQ+ legislation as “groomers.”

https://www.advocate.com/election/trump-jd-vance-drag-photo

EXPLAINER: Drag queens and how they got pulled into politics
https://apnews.com/article/government-and-politics-a26e7eee15df0bbc2bb98071b683b1f4

[claudette]

14. Yes. Terrible

But it’s still only a costume. Lots of reasons to hate this guy but I don’t think wearing a female costume in college expresses one’s future political views. I can’t stand Vance the cat lady hater but I know men who have attended costume parties in dresses who were not making a political statement

[Zoomie1986]

16. Good grief

What part are you unable to comprehend of how hypocritical it is for this jerk to dress this way while being in the party of bashing trans people, banning drag queen story hours and accusing trans people of being pedophiles and groomers?

You can bet that he'd pitch a hissy fit if someone called him a groomer over this, and wanted to send him to jail for dressing as a gender other than his own, but he thinks nothing of trashing other people who dress like he did in those photos.

[claudette]

19. That was taken

When he was in college right? Did he know he’d be the VP candidate? I’m NOT condoning the policies that he has NOW. I’m saying there are a gazillion other things to attack him with. To me this doesn’t seem that important

[TommyT139]

27. When he was in law school, so more recently nt

[GiqueCee]

31. It has nothing whatsoever...

... to do with his being a candidate for VP in a future Trump regime. It has everything to do with the cancerous hypocrisy that defines him as a person, and almost certainly always has. He, like Trump, is the embodiment of everything that rotten and despicable about the dangerous mental aberration that is conservatism.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

45. By your and his logic, someone at Yale is to be shielded from the iron-fisted laws he wants to introduce. . . . nt

[claudette]

46. That is NOT what I said or mean

I have NO clue how you came up with that nonsense..

[Bernardo de La Paz]

49. He wants to deny his Yale behaviour to people who have a real need to transition

He is privileged so he gets to play at it but hurt people who need it. He wants to outlaw trans remediation of gender dysphoria while indulging in it life-long, since his own 8-years old questioning of his own sexuality.

He wants to outlaw gay marriage.

He wants to outlaw doctors who try to help people with gender dysphoria.

He's the worst kind of moralistic lawmaker: a hypocrite.

That's what's bad. He and anyone else should be allowed wide latitude to explore and express their sexuality, but he wants to make that illegal.

He can play but people in need should suffer, is his attitude.

[claudette]

56. Agree he's horrible

But he nor anyone else can make it illegal in America for a man to dress as a female at a party. Nor do I believe any law against the clothes a person wears will ever be passed. Where did you read that he wants to do all that about the way people dress?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

57. He wants to squeeze public trans people every way possible while he plays at cross-dressing. . . nt

[BumRushDaShow]

17. Here is the problem, as described by LGBTQ mag "Advocate"

How JD Vance went from thinking he was gay and changing his name twice to being an anti-LGBTQ+ extremist

Christopher Wiggins
July 23 2024 5:54 PM EST


Ohio Republican U.S. Sen. JD Vance’s journey from a troubled childhood in Appalachia to the halls of the U.S. Senate to being former President Donald Trump’s running mate has been the subject of much ink, yet his contradictory stance on LGBTQ+ rights is coming under scrutiny. Vance’s memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, contains a revealing anecdote about his childhood belief that he was gay. Influenced by a preacher’s condemnation of homosexuality, young Vance feared he was destined for hell simply because he disliked girls and cherished his friendship with another boy.

Vance’s grandmother, whom he referred lovingly to as “mamaw” during his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention last Wednesday, was a central figure in his upbringing. She swiftly dispelled his fears with a blunt question and an assurance of divine love, regardless of his sexual orientation. This experience, which might have instilled a sense of empathy and understanding, starkly contrasts with Vance’s political actions. As a senator, Vance has positioned himself as a staunch opponent of LGBTQ+ rights, focusing particularly on restricting transgender rights.

Vance’s opposition to affirming one’s identity is complicated by his decision to change his name, not once, but twice. He was born James Donald Bowman and took the surname Hamel from his stepfather before finally choosing the name Vance to honor his grandmother, The New York Times reports. Critics argue that Vance’s childhood experience should have fostered empathy and understanding toward the LGBTQ+ community. Instead, he has used his platform to undermine their rights, leading to accusations of hypocrisy.

Vance’s legislative actions have also drawn significant criticism. He introduced a bill to criminalize gender-affirming care for minors, arguing that such medical interventions are harmful and should be banned. He has also decried the inclusion of a third gender option on passports, branding it as a waste of taxpayer money. “There are only two genders — passports issued by the United States government should recognize that simple fact,” Vance wrote on his congressional website while pushing his bill, the Passport Sanity Act.

(snip)

https://www.advocate.com/election/jd-vance-gay-name-change

[claudette]

21. So that

was in the past. Vance is an awful VP candidate. And we know he’s a hypocrite because of how he formerly hated Dump. Dressing as a female at a party seems the least of things to throw at him. That’s all I’m saying

[BumRushDaShow]

24. Since he is young, it wasn't that far "in the past".

It was 12 years ago.

He is running to be the VP of a party that has demonized people who he dressed like.

His state (where one of my BIL hails from and still has family there) have gone after drag -

Ohio House Republicans hope to stop drag queen story hours with new bill: Capitol Letter

Updated: Jul. 19, 2023, 8:11 a.m.|Published: Jul. 19, 2023, 8:00 a.m.

By Laura Hancock, cleveland.com

Rotunda Rumblings

Child’s play? Forty-three Ohio House Republicans are sponsoring a bill that would classify drag queen story hours and other children’s events as adult cabaret performances, along with exotic and go-go dancing, and would prohibit them. Under House Bill 245, any cabaret performance in front of a minor would be criminalized as a misdemeanor or felony, depending on whether the performance was harmful or obscene. Equality Ohio plans to fight the bill, Laura Hancock reports.

Trans-ban: U.S. Sen. JD Vance on Tuesday announced that he’s introduced legislation that would make providing “gender-affirming care” to minors a federal Class C felony, punishable with a prison sentence of 10 to 25 years, Sabrina Eaton reports. The Cincinnati Republican’s “Protect Children’s Innocence Act” also would block taxpayer funding for such procedures, including banning coverage of the treatments from Affordable Care Act insurance plans, stopping universities from providing instruction on “gender-affirming care,” and deeming noncitizens who have performed “gender-affirming care” on a minor ineligible to receive visas or admittance to the United States.

(snip)

https://www.cleveland.com/open/2023/07/ohio-house-republicans-hope-to-stop-drag-queen-story-hours-with-new-bill-capitol-letter.html

GLAAD also pointed out his other failings -

JD Vance faces criticism from advocates for his 'cruel' record on LGBTQ issues

July 16, 2024, 5:37 PM EDT
By Jo Yurcaba

(snip)

During his Senate campaign in July 2022, Vance told Mission America, a right-wing Christian organization based in Ohio, that he would oppose the Respect for Marriage Act, a bill to ensure federal marriage protections for same-sex and interracial marriages. Congress passed the legislation in fall 2022, and President Joe Biden signed it in December, before Vance was sworn in in January 2023.

Vance has also echoed false tropes increasingly used by conservatives to describe LGBTQ people and those who support them as “groomers.”

“I’ll stop calling people ‘groomers’ when they stop freaking out about bills that prevent the sexualization of my children,” Vance said on social media in April 2022.

(snip)

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/jd-vance-lgbtq-issues-rcna162167

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I'll stop calling people "groomers" when they stop freaking out about bills that prevent the sexualization of my children.
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This fucker was against the "Respect for Marriage Act" that codified the very "interracial marriage" that HE is in.

When he goes along with the racial insults against Kamala Harris, whose mother was from India JUST LIKE HIS WIFE, that type of shit needs to be pointed out and he needs to be ridiculed for not pushing back.

You might notice the difference in reactions between him "in drag" vs Ghouliani and even 45 "in drag" is BECAUSE of the hypocrisy.

He should be nowhere near the White House, let alone in any elected office.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

47. Some people more equal than others? He wants to make his party dressing illegal as public behaviour.

[claudette]

48. He wants to make

it illegal for men to wear female Halloween costumes? I never heard of that. it will NEVER pass.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

50. He wants to make it illegal to do in public what he does in parties. He and Ghouliani (another famous crossdresser).nt

[TBF]

80. Have you even looked at Project 2025 and what they want to do to this country -

Here is the full pdf - https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf

They are not going to make idiotic one liner rules like "a man can't wear a female costume" (whatever that means), but they WILL institute their theocracy and things like being gay or trans will become much more dangerous. That's why he's a hypocrite. That's what folks are trying to point out.

[claudette]

88. He isn't wearing the costume now. Is he?

[TBF]

90. Non-responsive. nt

[Hassin Bin Sober]

26. You know drag is a costume, yes?

[TommyT139]

29. We do...

But Project 2025 says that people who dress in drag are pornographers, who will be imprisoned under a Trump-Vance regime. (From page 5 of the 920 page PDF version.) That page also would shut down X/twitter, for platforming these images.

If he's going to put me in prison, he damn well better be there too.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

44. It's his hyper-moralism that says Do As I Say, Not As I Do. . . . . nt

[BlueWavePsych]

13. Imagine you are homophobic and you can't stand seeing anyone in drag.

Now imagine that is your leader. Simple. Cognitive dissonance.



Result, MAGAt may decide to abstain.

[johnnyfins]

34. It was obviously a party

Look at the red cups on the table. It's funny, and he is probably super pissed that it got out there, but let's bust them on their weird policy stuff. Not their halloween costumes from college.

[claudette]

35. Agree

[SilasSouleII]

40. Its not the "holloween coistumes", it's the hypocracy.

n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

43. He gets to play at the edges but STRONGLY denies people w real need to transition. . . . nt

[Torchlight]

72. I think it hurts him because

he's consistently, sanctimoniously, and self-righteously railed with an orthodoxy of absolutism against the very thing he's photographed participating in.

I doubt there is a practical or plausible means he escapes from this self-inflicted wound without negative political consequence. For me, I'd wonder how someone supports the assertion it will be without consequence.

[claudette]

73. What I'm saying is

if he had dressed like that for a party NOW then I could see making this a huge issue. But it was a LONG time ago and it was a COSTUME worn to a PARTY. Not sure when he formed his moralistic stance on drag - probably not then.

I’m NOT agreeing with ANY of his current hurtful comments. I’m just making a point there are many other things to use against him. It’s my tribute to the men I know who have dressed as a female for a COSTUME party.

[Torchlight]

74. Yes. There are many things to use against him. This being one of them.

'This' referencing the charlatan's pretense about his wardrobe, rather than the wardrobe itself. Therein lies the clear distinction.

After age 25, 'youthful indiscretions' become an excuse.

[claudette]

75. I'm done

It’s useless

[TBF]

81. He's 39 years old & was in law school in his early 20's.

So definitely less than 20 years ago. Is that really so "LONG" ago?

Why are you defending him?

[claudette]

83. Again

I am NOT defending HIM. I’m defending men who wear a female costume to a party. Doesn’t matter how old Vance is or was. He did not do it NOW. I’ve never seen such hysteria over a costume.

[TBF]

85. But that is not the point - the point is that in doing so he is mocking

people who he would take rights away from. I'm not sure why you're persisting w/this defense of him (which is what it is).

[claudette]

87. It is not

a DEFENSE of HIM. I’m done. This is ridiculous. He is not “in doing so” NOW. If he did wear it now then I can see the attacks. It’s just so petty. There are so many reasons to attack him for his prejudice against drag. His past party costume from the past is not one of them. In my view. Bye.

[HarrisWalz2024]

9. Hypocritica

I think it's not that it's bad, but that he's hypocritical. It appears a party judging by the red Solo cups!

[Prairie Gates]

22. For the purpose of pointing out hypocrisy

We're all supposed to pretend that we don't know what drag is.

[Renew Deal]

37. And all the denials about him currently wearing eye liner are less believable

[Bernardo de La Paz]

42. It's the hypocrisy of fascist requirement to conform vs his personal non-conformity

It's that he is allowed to question and explore his sexuality but he would deny US citizens from doing the same.

It's the Handmaid's Tale vision he sees for America that is at odds with his own personal libertinism. Extra votes for him and couples with children but not for cross-dressers who are more likely to be childless.

It's that he feels he should be allowed to dabble in trans fantasies but deny people who have a real need to transition.

[voris820]

58. Its damaging politically.

It will turn off some voters especially on the right.

You need to set aside your own beliefs and put yourself in the shoes of other voters. This is something people on the left seem to have a very hard time doing.

[Farmer-Rick]

67. If he did this now in TN

He would go to jail.

Yeah, there's a law against drag in TN. It's Vance's pals in the TN Repuke party who made a man dressing as a woman illegal and a crime in TN.

[claudette]

70. Privately

In a person’s house for a party? Never heard of it

[Farmer-Rick]

89. If he was doing any kind of performance while in drag

He can be arrested and jailed.

The law has yet to define specifically what "performance" an "entertainment" means. Is just dressing in drag and telling jokes at someone's house a performance and serve as entertainment? TN has yet define it.

So, yeah, police could arrest and jail him.

[Warpy]

7. It was probably his finest hour

but I don't know what peo[le are trying to prove with these pictures beyond the fact that he's a raging hypocrite with mommy issues and we knew that, already.

[SilasSouleII]

41. We knew that already, but now the magas have to face it

n/t

[moonshinegnomie]

11. looks like a groomer to me

[BamaRefugee]

15. This is nothing to MAGA. But when those pictures come out of him at a library, he's gone!

[tanyev]

18. What is the deal with pulling the front of the wig all the way down to his eyebrows?

Ain’t nobody got a hairline like that. Weird.

[Pototan]

20. Vance is a drag on the ticket

Pun intended.

[Baron2024]

23. Vance Is A Hypocrite

This sort of stuff will probably drive a lot of MAGA Nuts crazy. They are homophobic and their second choice on the ticket has dressed in drag. There is nothing wrong with drag, but the MAGAts are freaked out by it. The MAGAs are racist White Nationalists and Vance's wife is a woman of color. There is nothing wrong with diversity, but MAGAts don't like diversity either. The real point is that Vance is a hypocrite. The MAGA people probably have buyers remorse when they see this sort of stuff which offends them, even if it is perfectly normal to us. Vance is a fake and a hypocrite. And Vance has the gall to attack Tim Walz, who is very much NOT a hypocrite, but a very genuine and authentic human being.

[Brainfodder]

25. Well this is better than their dull AF politics driven phony personalities?

[Lunabell]

28. In that second photo he has a real "come hither" look.

He looks like he is enjoying his drag look. Not that there is anything wrong with that. I love me some drag queens. I'm just making an observation that he looks like he is feeling kind of sexy.

[BattleRow]

32. Dreaming of his next love

seat rendezvous..
So many couches,so little time..

[StarryNite]

30. He doth protest too much, methinks.

[progree]

33. Another report describes Tim Walz as "folksy". The question is, can "folksy" beat "foxy"? /nt

[IronLionZion]

36. MAGA patriots must boycott the election in protest

think of the children

[OAITW r.2.0]

51. Did he ever get a date?

Maybe that explains a lot of who he is today.

[tulipsandroses]

52. Does this have anything to do the supposed Iran hack?

Or just a crazy coincidence?

[BlueKota]

53. You can tell he thinks he's pretty 🤣

[AlexSFCA]

54. slay queen slay

[JoseBalow]

55. One thing about drumpf

[NJCher]

59. that is one cheap-ass wig

Dollar Store or Halloween costume material for sure.

The thing that also makes it weird is his "come hither" look. It makes me laugh.

Anyway, cheap wig story:

One time the RG was away on a business trip and per our usual, I went to the airport to pick him up when he returned. He had warned me that I needed to look for him with a full head of hair: he had bought a wig.

I was crestfallen. I did not want a guy with a wig. A baldie is fine with me.

Arriving at the airport, I saw him standing with his luggage and a wig about the quality of this one. The whole thing had been a joke.

I was so relieved.

[LeftInTX]

71. Yep! It looks like it's right out of Dollar Tree!

[ZonkerHarris]

60. Drag or Nazi uniforms or blackface, Halloween always exposes the kinks.

[claudette]

84. Men who

wear a female costume at Halloween are NOT kinky. Please. Get a grip

[royable]

61. And here I was thinking I was going to see him dressed up as a couch.

[BlueWavePsych]

62. Hmmm ...

[Crowman2009]

64. He's no Ed Wood, that's for damn sure.

He would be rolling in his grave if he found out what half-ass job JD did with that ensemble.

[samnsara]

65. i dunno... i see this is stupid frat boy party antics..

...hes not even pretending to be anything but a guy in a dress and a cheap wig

[BumRushDaShow]

69. The problem is this -

As loathsome as Ghouliani and 45 are - let alone in the above "skit" with Ghoul was "in drag" for of all things, "a charity event", Ghoul didn't call drag performers "groomers" like this hypocrite Vance has done.

I remember my 4 years in college at UMASS (which was always called "ZOOMASS" because of the antics of many of the students - especially at Halloween) and I have seen all kinds of costumes - including lewd and crude ones that students would put together.

Vance didn't have to select that for a costume. Why not dress up as a penis? I recall seeing one of those in college on Halloween night roaming around the campus with thousands of others while me and my dorm-mates were headed to the campus shuttle stop to go see "Rocky Horror Picture" show for the midnight showing at the mall.

These zealots would freak at that movie -

[TBF]

86. It's a rite of passage at Wisconsin -

they would play it at an old theater not too far from the capital, and a lot of folks would dress up!

[BumRushDaShow]

91. It had only come out a couple years before I saw it in college

and there was definitely a raucous audience for it!

We came complete with all the props one would need!

I think of the dozens of viewings that I attended back then, only ONE time could I actually hear what the "Narrator" guy was actually saying.

[claudette]

76. Agree

[NYC Liberal]

77. That's literally what drag is. It's just a costume.

[FSogol]

68. The big question is: what will he wear to the debate?

[Mysterian]

79. Aaaaaand the only reason anybody cares....

is the insane, evil republican hatemongering against LGBTQ.