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President Donald Trump mentioned the way in which Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez answered questions on the Munich Safety Convention “was not a great search for the US.”
The Democrat lawmaker from New York and potential 2028 presidential candidate has been going through criticism for making overseas coverage gaffes on the occasion. In a single occasion, Ocasio-Cortez appeared to stall for practically 20 seconds when requested if the U.S. ought to ship troops to defend Taiwan from a potential invasion by China, and in one other, claimed Venezuela is under the equator.
“By the way in which, I watched AOC answering questions in Munich. This was not a great search for the US. I watched Gavin Newscum answering questions in Munich, and this was a nasty search for our nation,” Trump advised reporters onboard Air Power One on Monday evening.
“This was a nasty – these two persons are incompetent, and at the very least Hillary is competent. She’s simply Trump deranged. She was so deranged and she or he is an indignant lady. However I watched the opposite two talking and answering fundamental questions. Look, Gavin has destroyed California, and AOC I by no means actually obtained her, I by no means heard her converse very a lot and so they began answering questions. She had no concept what was taking place,” Trump continued, referencing Newsom’s and Clinton’s attendance on the Munich Safety Convention.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is pictured talking in the course of the Munich Safety Convention in Munich, Germany, on Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. At proper is President Donald Trump chatting with reporters onboard Air Power One on Monday, Feb. 16, 2026. (Liesa Johannssen/Reuters; Mandel Ngan/AFP by way of Getty Photos)
“She had no concept easy methods to reply, you recognize, crucial questions in regards to the world. However she cannot reply questions regarding New York Metropolis both, as a result of New York Metropolis [has] obtained some issues,” Trump additionally mentioned about Ocasio-Cortez.
Fox Information Digital has reached out to Ocasio-Cortez’s and Newsom’s workplaces for response.
Ocasio-Cortez was requested on Friday, “Would and may the U.S. really commit U.S. troops to defend Taiwan if China had been to maneuver?”
The four-term lawmaker appeared to stall for practically 20 seconds earlier than providing that the U.S. ought to attempt to keep away from reaching a conflict with China over Taiwan.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., attends the Munich Safety Convention in Munich, Germany, on Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. (Liesa Johannssen/Reuters)
“That is, after all, a, a really long-standing, coverage of the US, and I believe what we hope for is that we wish to make it possible for we by no means get to that time, and we wish to make it possible for we’re transferring in all of our financial analysis and our world positions to keep away from any such confrontation and for that query to even come up,” Ocasio-Cortez mentioned.
Ocasio-Cortez additionally claimed that Venezuela was “under the equator” whereas criticizing the Trump administration for arresting the nation’s dictator Nicolás Maduro.
“It’s not a comment on who Maduro was as a pacesetter. He canceled elections. He was an anti-democratic chief. That doesn’t imply that we are able to kidnap a head of state and interact in acts of conflict simply because the nation is under the equator,” Ocasio-Cortez mentioned.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks in the course of the Munich Safety Convention in Munich, Germany, on Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. (Johannes Simon/Getty Photos)
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In a put up on Reality Social Monday evening, Trump mentioned, “AOC and Newscum had been a humiliation to our Nation.”
Fox Information Digital’s Paul Steinhauser, Lindsay Kornick and Peter Pinedo contributed to this report.
