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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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Operation "LET HER TALK" phase 1 complete. ✅️ 👍

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1 posted on 02/23/2026 7:32:13 AM PST by V_TWIN
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To: V_TWIN

She should have blamed the defective globe she consulted showing Venezuela below the equator.


2 posted on 02/23/2026 7:35:17 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The Supreme Court Sucks. Time for the old dinosaur to go along with the U.N. and NATO.)
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To: V_TWIN

She’s not an expert ...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/y0HJXkEFPL0


3 posted on 02/23/2026 7:39:01 AM PST by boycott
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To: FlingWingFlyer

She was referring to the Southern Equator, as anyone at CNN could confirm.


4 posted on 02/23/2026 7:40:13 AM PST by bigbob (We are all Charlie Kirk now)
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To: V_TWIN

Yet another misleading headline from GP.


5 posted on 02/23/2026 7:40:38 AM PST by KevinB (I don’t really care, Margaret.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

She was referring to the Southern Equator, as anyone at CNN could confirm.


6 posted on 02/23/2026 7:40:51 AM PST by bigbob (We are all Charlie Kirk now)
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To: boycott

Of anything outside of stealing tips from her fellow bartenders.


7 posted on 02/23/2026 7:43:43 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: V_TWIN

Her classmates called her Sandy.

Her co-workers on the waitstaff called her a tip jar thief.

I’d call her as qualified a Democrat as Komrade Kammy.


8 posted on 02/23/2026 7:45:49 AM PST by Biblebelter
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To: FlingWingFlyer

AOC seems a nice person but she is way out of her league in Congress. She seems a Lamb in a World of Wolves. If she remains in politics she will be destroyed and will take thousands of people with her.


9 posted on 02/23/2026 7:46:35 AM PST by chopperk (e)
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To: V_TWIN

Call a Wambulance


10 posted on 02/23/2026 7:46:48 AM PST by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: V_TWIN

Did she finally get her garbage disposal working?


11 posted on 02/23/2026 7:49:06 AM PST by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“The Congresswoman (AOC) is kind of like Vice President Kamala Harris, but with more bartending experience.”

_ Senator John Kennedy (R-LA)


12 posted on 02/23/2026 7:51:27 AM PST by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it won't leave)
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To: V_TWIN

Representative? AOC - D isgusting


13 posted on 02/23/2026 7:53:51 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: V_TWIN
Let's be honest...

Just because AOC is as dumb as a bag of hammers and incapable of coherant speech
doesn't mean she won't make a darn fine democrat presidential candidate.


14 posted on 02/23/2026 7:54:20 AM PST by Iron Munro (Pamela Geller: Where Islam dominates democracy and non-muslims perish.)
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To: V_TWIN

“Let AOC be AOC”


15 posted on 02/23/2026 7:56:32 AM PST by bigbob (We are all Charlie Kirk now)
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To: KevinB

No kidding. Really getting tired of their disinformation.


16 posted on 02/23/2026 7:57:06 AM PST by nwrep
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To: V_TWIN

This is how to truly analyze all of this.

Just pretend for a second that an up and coming young MAGA Republican said these things...

How would the press handle that?

What would the New York Times report?

And THERE’S your answer.


17 posted on 02/23/2026 7:58:42 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Conservatives can't afford to sit out. Vote like your freedom depends on it, it does!)
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To: nwrep

Never underestimate the stupidity of the American people.


18 posted on 02/23/2026 7:58:44 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: nwrep; KevinB

I couldn’t care less about the headline as long as it helps expose this little twit as being the mental midget she is.


19 posted on 02/23/2026 8:00:19 AM PST by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it won't leave)
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To: V_TWIN
She knows she's done because Latinas will reject her.

She really exposed her ignorance, and her lack of pride in her Hispanic history, at the Munich Security Conference where Secretary Rubio spoke of the shared cultural heritage between the United States and Europe. “Our horses, our ranches, our rodeos—the entire romance of the cowboy archetype that became synonymous with the American West—these were born in Spain."

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez responded during a separate discussion; "My favorite part was when he said that American cowboys came from Spain... And I believe the Mexicans and descendants of African enslaved peoples would like to have a word on that."

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is too ignorant to recognize that her own ancestor, Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés reintroduced horses, and the use of them for raising cattle, to America in the 1500s.

Her... own... ancestor...

...whose name she has carried her whole life.

Yes, that's Sandy from Westchester, folks.

20 posted on 02/23/2026 8:08:14 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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