JD Vance and the Secret Service are Beefing With a Cat Meme Page

Let’s play a guessing game. I’m thinking of a White House loser who’s got presidential daddy issues, keeps publishing unwanted memoirs by stealing titles from feminist books; and was so miffed by a woman’s cat-themed Instagram account dedicated to teasing him that he got the Secret Service to block her from a taxpayer-funded event. 

If you guessed it’s the same wimp that mocked America’s “childless cat ladies” in 2021, ding, ding, ding! Oh, JD Vance, the man you aren’t.

According to a new lawsuit filed against the U.S. Secret Service and Executive Office of the President on Tuesday by Amanda McGonigle, creator of @catsonacouch—a cat-themed Instagram account dedicated to making fun of Vice President Vance and mobilizing mutual aid—McGonigle was attending an official vice-presidential event in Maine in May when she was denied entry. According to her, she’d been waiting in line when she was singled out by security—including literal armed Secret Service agents, who said: “We know where you stand.” 

“It’s absurd that the Secret Service is wasting their time tracking a satirical cat account on social media,” McGonigle told the ACLU, in a statement shared with Jezebel. “The government can’t exclude me from official vice-presidential events just because I mock people in power on the internet.”  

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The event was meant to be dedicated to Vance discussing his ongoing crackdown on fraud, the scut task Trump assigned to him in February—and one he’s since used to practice stupid partisanship, take away Minnesotans’ and Californians’ healthcare, and launch a baseless investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) for alleged immigration fraud. Presumably, protesting all of this is still allowed.

However, the administration seems to have made it one of its life missions to rail against free speech, arresting individuals for posting memes about Trump; speaking out against the regime on TV; or, in James Comey’s case, posting a picture of literal seashells. Oh, and let’s not forget the creepy secret jury that was trying to track down someone for criticizing ICE on Reddit.

Last year, Jezebel spoke to McGonigle after she organized a group of “Meowtucket” protesters to greet JD Vance in Nantucket, Massachusetts, with nothing but a giant, glossy poster of his bald, uglified face. At the time, she called the movement “a day of good trouble on the island to make sure that JD Vance doesn’t know a second of peace,” adding: “he doesn’t deserve it.” She launched the account in early 2024, after his “childless cat ladies” resurfaced. (According to his new memoir, he regrets saying this.)

“The Trump administration has routinely retaliated against people exercising their First Amendment rights, and this is just the latest example,” McGonigle said. “But the First Amendment protects our right to criticize the government, and it’s well within my rights to say that I think JD Vance is an unlikeable idiot.”