Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said President Trump is too afraid to criticize her in person the way he does on Twitter.
“Oh, no, he would not. Yeah, he never would,” the New York congresswoman said when asked during an interview with The Breakfast Club radio show whether the president would criticize her to her face. “Like, keep that same energy when you meet me.”
Co-host Angela Yee said it’s a “compliment” to be criticized by Trump.
“Yeah, well, I mean, I think he’s scared,” Ocasio-Cortez replied.
The congresswoman called Trump a “narcissist” who is jealous of the attention received by prominent political figures such as Rep. Adam Schiff and former NFL player Colin Kaepernick.
“He doesn’t like attention not being on him, so if attention [is] on anyone else, if it’s on Adam Schiff, if it’s on Nancy Pelosi, if it’s on Colin Kaepernick, he’s gonna try to find a way to reel that back in to himself,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
Trump and Ocasio-Cortez have been longtime Twitter foes. In October, Trump referred to her as a “Wack Job” — after which the congresswoman called him a “criminal who betrays our country.”
Ocasio-Cortez touched on other political issues during her interview, floating the theory that electing Trump to the presidency would pave the way for a “worse Trump” and appeared to make a case for “school choice,” which would put her at odds with many in her party.
“We do need to address situations with charter schools, I think. It doesn’t mean that they’re all bad. It doesn’t mean that they should 100% go away,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “The charter school movement, especially in about the 1970s — they were community charters. So oftentimes, it was pastors, community organizers, starting community-based schools. So the school came from the community. It was for the community.”
WATCH:@AOC makes the case for school choice! pic.twitter.com/CskuOq3Orp
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) February 25, 2020
