Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez continued her war of words with Elon Musk by leveling a head-scratching insult at the Tesla and SpaceX CEO who is currently heading up the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
After throwing a social media tantrum over Musk’s role in President Donald Trump’s administration, the New York Democrat posted a video message in which she called him out as “one of the most unintelligent billionaires” she’s ever seen.
REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ: Elon Musk is probably one of the most unintelligent billionaires I’ve ever met, or seen, or witnessed. You can probably glean this from watching these people on TV. They don’t do their homework. This dude is not smart. The danger in the lack of… pic.twitter.com/zpM2WJaWei
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 4, 2025
“This dude is probably one of the most unintelligent billionaires I have ever met, or seen, or witnessed,” she said laughing as she spoke with her followers in a live Instagram video.
“Which you can probably even glean this from watching these people on TV,” she continued as she heaped on the insults.
“Anyways, all of that is to say that they don’t do their homework. Clearly, like they’re putting 19-year-olds into the treasury. This dude is not smart,” said the former New York bartender, adding a warning about the “danger in the lack of intelligence and the lack of expertise that Elon has.”
“This guy is one of the most morally vacant, but also, just, least knowledgeable about these systems that we really know of,” her rant continued. “What that means is that they’re going to hit a button and things can go sideways.”
Never mind that Musk owns X, formerly Twitter, and co-founded seven companies, including an artificial intelligence company, an electric vehicle maker, and a rocket-producing company.
That’s really rich coming from a bartender who has never run a successful company in her life. Elon has several wildly successful companies that are at the top of their classes in their respective category. He is the world’s richest man. That does not occur if you are…
— PatriotSons (Thomas) (@Patriot_Sons) February 4, 2025
Ocasio-Cortez and other Democrat critics are raising the alarm as Musk gains access to the Treasury Department’s payment system as DOGE plows ahead with cutting federal waste and saving American taxpayers billions. Despite being exactly what voters demanded when they swept Trump back into the White House, Democrats continue to fear-monger about the actual waste being cut.
Ocasio-Cortez’s latest truckload of insults set off a wave of criticism on X.
How dare @AOC call @elonmusk unintelligent.
Has she built the fastest selling electric car? Has she built rockets that land or caught in an embrace by a massive structure? Has she built a brain device that helps people who can’t move move things???
She’s just feeling completely…
— Eli Tralv (@liztalny1023) February 4, 2025
So this cackling girl who was a bartender just a few short years ago, is saying that @elonmusk is dumb? Only an idiot would say something so foolish.
— Randy Cooper 🇺🇸 (@randycooper) February 4, 2025
Haha wow. Just wow. The dumbest person to ever serve in Congress literally called the wealthiest and one of the most innovative people in human history “unintelligent.” I think she still has a crush on @elonmusk
— LetsGoBFLO (@HistorianUSA1) February 4, 2025
Spoken like everyone who isn’t a billionaire themselves and hates others for being one.
— Michael (@siffdk) February 4, 2025
— john (@johnhackerla) February 4, 2025