Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has a message for Donald Trump
She shared it on "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_1G4_oPt_o
Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez’s shocking Democratic congressional primary win in New York over a longtime incumbent received nationwide attention this week, including from President Donald Trump.
Trump tweeted that U.S. Representative Joe Crowley, whom Ocasio-Cortez beat by 15 percentage points, “should have been nicer, and more respectful, to his President!”
Wow! Big Trump Hater Congressman Joe Crowley, who many expected was going to take Nancy Pelosi’s place, just LOST his primary election. In other words, he’s out! That is a big one that nobody saw happening. Perhaps he should have been nicer, and more respectful, to his President!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 27, 2018
When Ocasio-Cortez appeared on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” on Thursday, the community activist and Boston University alum had a message for the commander-in-chief.
In response to Trump’s tweet, Colbert asked Ocasio-Cortez, “Are you going to be nicer to the president?”
“You know, the president is from Queens,” Ocasio-Cortez, 28, said. “And with all due respect — half of my district is from Queens — I don’t think he knows how to deal with a girl from the Bronx.”
Ocasio-Cortez, who identifies politically as a Democratic Socialist, also explained to Colbert how she defines that term.
“So what that means to me is health care as a human right,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “It means that every child, no matter where you are born, should have access to a college or trade-school education, if they so choose it. And I think that no person should be homeless, if we can have public structures and public policy to allow for people to have homes and food and lead a dignified life in the United States.”
“Well, those all seem like very worthy goals,” Colbert replied. “You may get a little resistance from Donald Trump.”
