Kamala Harris' ex Montel Williams hits back at Trump campaign for sharing photo of him on a couch in nod to meltdown over J.D. Vance

Talk show host Montel Williams took a dig at Donald Trump's presidential campaign in his latest burst of online activity since his long-ago romance with Kamala Harris resurfaced.

'A very weird tweet from an even weirder guy. Good morning y’all!' wrote Williams, who briefly dated the vice president and now presumptive Democratic Party nominee two decades ago.

He was responding to a post on X by Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung, who put the image online with the tagline: 'Montel Williams and his couch.' 

That post came after the AP posted and then retracted a fact-check on a false claim that Trump running mate J.D. Vance's book contains a passage about having sex with a couch (it contains no such passage). The tweet about Williams had no further explanation.

Williams has been engaged in a flurry of online activity since Harris suddenly emerged as the presumed Democratic nominee after President Joe Biden announced he was stepping back and threw his endorsement to her.

Last Sunday, he attracted notice for briefly appearing to shun his former flame with laudatory comments about Maryland Gov. Wes Moore shortly after Biden announced he was stepping back from his run to retain the White House.

'I’ve watched @GovWesMoore lead my home state of Maryland, and I know leadership when I see it,' Williams posted on X.

'I'd love to see Wes Moore leading the ticket or otherwise on my ballot and I’m ready to campaign.'

That came around the same time conservative X users had resurected images of him appearing with Harris at celebrity events two decades ago when they were dating. 

Then he posted explanations online after his pitch for Moore, a telegenic pol who was being mentioned as a potential presidential contender, drew commentary online. 

'Is anyone surprised I am interested in a politician who also went to the Naval Academy and whose leadership has impressed me?' he wrote. Then as Democrats consolidated around Harris, he clarified that he was ready to back the ultimate nominee. 

 He retweeted Moore's own post endorsing Harris, and underlined it online. 'Reminding folks I RT’d this,' he posted last Monday. 

Williams went after the Trump in a follow-up tweet Monday, complaining again about the couch image.

Last week, in a post he later deleted, Williams went after Vance, posting video of Vance commenting about 'a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too.' That came as Vance criticized Harris, who has step-children, among others who had not produced offspring and were making policy. 

'When people tell you who they are, believe them,' he wrote in the deleted post, which linked to video shared by the Kamala HQ page. 

'It's really weird that the spokesman for a major presidential candidate would go to my social media to grab a copyrighted photo of me sitting on a couch, projecting calmness, love for life, and passion for respecting the man I am today. I would think an official campaign spokesman would have more important things to do, but weirdos normally don’t,' he wrote.

His 'weird' attack also reflected a new tack from the Harris campaign, which has been using the adjective to try to characterize Trump himself.