It didn’t happen too often, but a few of President Donald Trump’s remarks at the State of the Union on Tuesday night drew applause from some Democratic lawmakers.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was not one of them ― and she’s making no apologies for maintaining stony-faced silence for much of the speech.
Several conservatives slammed her on Twitter, including Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan, who was a speechwriter to President Ronald Reagan.
Noonan called it a “rare bad moment” for Ocasio-Cortez, saying the freshman lawmaker looked “not spirited, warm and original as usual but sullen, teenaged and at a loss.”
Ocasio-Cortez fired back:
Why should I be “spirited and warm” for this embarrassment of a #SOTU?
Tonight was an unsettling night for our country. The president failed to offer any plan, any vision at all, for our future.
We’re flying without a pilot. And I‘m not here to comfort anyone about that fact. https://t.co/7bu3QXFMnC
That didn’t sit well with the democratic socialist lawmaker.
“I think he’s scared,” she said. “He sees that everything is closing in on him. And he knows he’s losing the battle of public opinion when it comes to the actual substantive proposals that we’re advancing to the public.”
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