Earlier this week, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) made a dog at White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller. The remark apparently made an impression, and now the Daily Beast is reporting one of President Donald Trump's top spokespeople is directly responding.
Ocasio-Cortez urged her followers on social media to mock the "fragile masculinity" of the Trump administration, and singled out Miller as a key example. She called the Trump advisor a "clown" and repeatedly suggested he was less than five feet tall.
"I’ve never seen that guy in real life, but he looks like he’s, like, 4 feet 10 inches," the Bronx congresswoman said of Miller. "And he looks like he is angry about the fact that he’s 4 feet 10 inches. And he looks like he is so mad that he is 4 feet 10 inches, that he has taken that anger out on any other population possible."
Fox News host Laura Ingraham played the clip of Ocasio-Cortez's remarks to Miller while she was interviewing him on air to get his response. Miller pointed out that he was actually 5'10" and called the New York Democrat a "walking nightmare."
"Well, we knew that her brain didn’t work,” Miller said. “Now we know her eyes don’t work. So, the… she’s a mess, right? What a trainwreck. What a trainwreck."
Ocasio-Cortez's criticism of Miller also prompted White House Communications Director Steven Cheung to tweet a crude remark at the congresswoman, writing on Tuesday: "Sounds like @AOC is often used to the shorter things in life," with an emoji of pinched fingers.
Also on Tuesday, Ocasio-Cortez posted a video to her Instagram story apologizing to "the short king community," saying that she was against body-shaming and that her remarks about Miller's height were meant to be understood as an assessment of his inner character.
"I have no idea how tall [right-wing influencer] Andrew Tate is. No idea at all. But that guy looks to me like, 5'3", 5'4"," she said. "Whereas physically, men of small stature can come across — they are spiritually six foot. If you're a good dad, if you stand with women, if you're not belitting immigrants, you're like, 6'3". Spiritually. I don't know, am I being problematic?"
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