Ocasio-Cortez claps back at Trump after he calls her a “poor student” who “yaps”
President Trump always reserves his most insulting and demeaning insults for women who challenge him, his sense of personal misogyny simply aghast at the idea that a woman would dare to have ideas contrary to his own or criticisms of his appalling administration. That urge was put on full display this morning during a call to FOX Business in which he took aim at the right-wing’s favorite bogeywoman, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).
Echoing the baseless but perpetually repeated right-wing trope that AOC is somehow “dumb,” Trump claimed that Rep. Ocasio-Cortez was a “poor student” and “not even a smart person” who “goes out and yaps.” Ever projecting his own insecurities, Ocasio-Cortez is almost certainly a better student than he was, graduating cum laude with a double major in political science and economics from Boston University — as opposed to Trump, who has lied profusely about his academic achievements.
Brushing off the appalling misogyny in the phrase “goes out and yaps,” Ocasio-Cortez immediately took to Twitter to respond — and challenged him to put his money where his mouth is.
Let’s make a deal, Mr. President:
You release your college transcript, I’ll release mine, and we’ll see who was the better student.
Loser has to fund the Post Office. https://t.co/OXnmJxufIw
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) August 13, 2020
The President’s new Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, has quietly been sabotaging the USPS from the inside to both push for privatization and to make it easier to interfere with the 2020 election, making Trump’s warnings that mail-in ballots are unsafe a reality.
The USPS is a beloved institution that millions of Americans rely on and its preservation is vital to the health of our democracy, and Ocasio-Cortez is making sure that the whole nation knows who’s at fault for its abrupt decline. We cannot allow Trump and his wealthy goons to get away with dismantling yet another historic American institution.
