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AOC Has Emotional Meltdown on Camera, Appears to Hold Back Tears, Blames Trump and Critics for Her Foreign Policy Disasters
thegatewaypundit.com ^ | Feb. 22, 2026 | Jim Hᴏft

Posted on 02/23/2026 7:32:13 AM PST by V_TWIN

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Once again, the Radical Left’s favorite Squad member is substituting actual policy knowledge with absolute theatrical melodrama.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, AOC delivered one of the most humiliating performances by a U.S. politician in modern history at the Munich Security Conference. She made a host of mind-boggling gaffes in response to simple questions while botching basic geography.

In one instance, a moderator at the event asked AOC if the US should commit troops to defend against China, and she turned into a stuttering mess.

“Um, you know, I think that, uh, this is such a, uh, you know, I — I think that this is a, umm, this is of course a, uh, a very longstanding, um, policy of the United States – uh and I think what we are hoping for is we want to make sure that we never get to that point,” AOC said.

“And we want to make sure that we are moving all of our economic research and global positions to avoid any such confrontation and for that question to even arise,” she said.

In addition to the ugly episode, AOC also incorrectly stated that Venezuela was below the equator and called Secretary of State Marco Rubio racist for saying cowboys came from Spain.

AOC then called The New York Times and vented her fury over the coverage of her gaffes and the questions she was asked.

“This reporter came up to me and was like, ‘Is Munich the new New Hampshire?’ And I cannot say enough how out of touch and missing the point, genuinely, that is,” AOC whined during the interview with the Times.

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To: chopperk

RE: AOC seems a nice person...

But her dark side is there, waiting. Her dimples and shy smile worked in high school but she was probably ready to cut down any rivals who got in her way as in Mean Girls.

Minutes after the controversial death of the SUV woman hitting the agent she said the ICE agent was a “murderer.”
That’s fine for people informally talking somewhere but not for a woman serving in the US Congress.


41 posted on 02/23/2026 9:14:15 AM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: bigbob
She was referring to the Southern Equator, as anyone at CNN could confirm.

She should have played it safe and simply said that Venezuela is located "between the Tropic of Leukemia and the Tropic of Popcorn."

Regards,

42 posted on 02/23/2026 9:15:32 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: V_TWIN

Good strategy.

Remember Kamala and her aides tried to make excuses for avoiding the press conferences and media interviews for months? Then had a puff piece political love affair journalist do one and the aides said “See? She just met with the media.” Then the post loss book tour theme is she only had those few days to let the public know how wonderful she was.

The more people get to know these candidates the less they like them. All they have is “the one who isn’t Trump.”


43 posted on 02/23/2026 9:18:24 AM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: boycott

AND-— SHE WAS A THIEF WHEN A BARTENDER-—SHE STOLE THE TIPS


44 posted on 02/23/2026 9:22:39 AM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: alexander_busek

True. Two time World Series champion baseball manager Sparky Anderson used to say the overconfident guy who thinks he’ll always be winning and on top of the world learns that the Earth rotates and 12 hours later he will be on the underside.


45 posted on 02/23/2026 9:22:52 AM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Alas Babylon!

Look what they did to Dan Quayle decades ago for misspelling “potato”.


46 posted on 02/23/2026 9:24:20 AM PST by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est)
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To: Iron Munro
doesn't mean she won't make a darn fine democrat presidential candidate.

Can her eyes focus on objects in front of her? Can she leave a stage without the Easter Bunny's help? Climb a set of stairs? She's already ahead of Biden 3-0. Add on that the raided tip jar is only a stack of ones compared to millions from Hunter's bagman jobs like Burisma, I'll move her to 3.9-0 over Biden.

47 posted on 02/23/2026 9:25:16 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Dept. of Education should teach about Nietzsche: DOGE didn't kill it and now it's stronger than ever)
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To: Alas Babylon!

You mean like Dan Quayle being handed the mistaken “potatoe” spelling on a game card handed to him to read at Luis Muñoz Marín Elementary School and never being able to escape ridicule?
Either refuse to read it and demand they look at it, or go along to be nice and read it.


48 posted on 02/23/2026 9:26:58 AM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: V_TWIN

Anybody who says something to make AOC start to have tears swell up is, well, just a meany. So there.

The Presidential candidate who was damaged and had to drop out——
“During the 1972 New Hampshire primary, Democratic presidential front-runner Edmund Muskie delivered an emotional, angry speech outside the Manchester Union Leader to defend his wife against attacks. While some reporters reported seeing tears on his face, Muskie maintained it was melting snow, not crying, that caused the iconic, campaign-damaging moment. “
-—WaPo.

Media said a President who would cry would not be a fit leader and this led to pressure to drop out of the race, which Muskie did later.


49 posted on 02/23/2026 9:30:45 AM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: bigbob
She was referring to the Southern Equator, as anyone at CNN could confirm.

Right, and for her entire adult life whenever AOC walked by somebody would say, WOW! Look at that A$$!!!!!! and AOC always thought they were talking about her Southern Equator.

50 posted on 02/23/2026 9:32:16 AM PST by hflynn
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To: alexander_busek

Sandy Cortez: “Between the Tropic of Crabs and the Tropic of Goatse” ...

(Stick to things she knows.)


51 posted on 02/23/2026 9:34:46 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: V_TWIN

Link to her rebuttal
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/2025393277852147858


52 posted on 02/23/2026 9:36:35 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: NorthMountain
Sandy Cortez: “Between the Tropic of Crabs and the Tropic of Goats” ...

Well, they're actually called that in German! "Wendekreis des Krebs" and "Wendekreis des Steinbocks"

Regards,

53 posted on 02/23/2026 9:38:08 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: V_TWIN

Rule #1 in the Liberal Handbook: It’s always someone else’s fault.


54 posted on 02/23/2026 9:41:32 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perfection is impossible. But if you pursue perfection you may achieve excellence - - Vince Lombardi)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

In other news AOC demanded that whatever countries might be on the equator put poles in the ground and ropes connecting them to help brilliant analysts like her figure out where the equator is....


55 posted on 02/23/2026 9:41:44 AM PST by cgbg ("Your identity is how power treats you.")
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To: FlingWingFlyer

There’s no equator on a flat earth.


56 posted on 02/23/2026 9:46:18 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: V_TWIN

I would be right if Trump hadn’t acted to prove me wrong.


57 posted on 02/23/2026 9:57:13 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: Enterprise

The media have never stopped excoriating Quayle over it. 30-plus years later and any mention of him is still accompanied by potatoe.


58 posted on 02/23/2026 10:14:40 AM PST by Dahoser (Liz Cheney needs to work on her soccer skills so she fits in when she transfers to Guantanamo High)
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To: V_TWIN

I am torn between wanting to watch her go down in flames as the democrat presidential nominee in 2028 and abject fear that there might actually be enough really stupid voters to elect her.


59 posted on 02/23/2026 10:15:48 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy (Our long national nightmare is over!)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

She’ll never survive the democrat debates.....if there are any.


60 posted on 02/23/2026 10:17:44 AM PST by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it won't leave)
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