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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: V_TWIN

Cowboys did come from Spain. Does this idiot know that Rubio is Hispanic? This loon is a national embarrassment.


61 posted on 02/23/2026 10:28:01 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence." -Marx the Smarter (Groucho.))
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To: ridesthemiles

That’s what qualified her to be a Democrat in Congress.


62 posted on 02/23/2026 10:45:42 AM PST by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: V_TWIN

I hope she talks some more. Lots more.


63 posted on 02/23/2026 11:00:24 AM PST by Sequoyah101
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To: T.B. Yoits

What do you mean reintroduced?


64 posted on 02/23/2026 11:12:51 AM PST by nwrep
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To: V_TWIN

In tennis, this performance would be deemed an unforced error. She went there knowingly, way out of her depth, trying to burnish credentials that do not exist.


65 posted on 02/23/2026 11:14:21 AM PST by NonValueAdded (First, I was a clinger, then deplorable, now I'm garbage. Feel the love? )
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To: V_TWIN

Would have made a decent rent a girl in my Barranquilla days

She sure missed her juicy Latina calling lol


66 posted on 02/23/2026 11:16:12 AM PST by wardaddy (If u hate Trump you’re stupid or clueless what’s going on)
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To: nwrep
What do you mean reintroduced? [horses to the Americas]

Prehistoric horses such as Equus Scotti, lived in the Americas for millions of years and went extinct about 11,000 years ago.

67 posted on 02/23/2026 11:27:42 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: V_TWIN
The seventeenth and 19th amendments were catastrophic mistakes.


68 posted on 02/23/2026 11:41:17 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Democracy dies with Democrats.)
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To: Iron Munro

The other mixed metaphor saying is “dumber than tits on a hammer” which, for AOC, seems more apropos.


69 posted on 02/23/2026 11:46:02 AM PST by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: Enterprise

And they, as usual, didn’t report the entire story. Same with Bush and the grocery scanner.


70 posted on 02/23/2026 11:47:23 AM PST by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: dfwgator

There is lots of stupidity going around because AOC is very popular amongst her constituents. They love her.


71 posted on 02/23/2026 11:48:25 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: frank ballenger

He flipped the card around and showed it to everyone. It wasn’t reported.


72 posted on 02/23/2026 11:49:02 AM PST by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: Fledermaus
He flipped the card around and showed it to everyone. It wasn’t reported.

Because Big Media are liars and mouthpieces for the demonicRAT Party.

When you see some Big Media creature babbling on your television, picture in your mind "The Mouth of Sauron" from Lord of the Rings ...

73 posted on 02/23/2026 12:00:31 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Her globe was mounted upside down.


74 posted on 02/23/2026 3:29:35 PM PST by Mean Daddy (Who will do the Democrat voting that Americans won’t do? - rightwingcrazy)
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To: T.B. Yoits

They were not the same. Please don’t take credit away from Cortés.


75 posted on 02/23/2026 4:11:12 PM PST by nwrep
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To: Steely Tom

He did it, but it didn’t help him any.


76 posted on 02/23/2026 7:34:55 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (God save the United States!)
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