Kamala Harris perfected the art of word salads during her failed presidential bid in 2024. She could ramble for minutes and still leave the question unaddressed.
No one ever really explained just why she did it.
But now, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez has picked up the agenda to deliver word salads, and she’s already explained why.
It’s President Donald Trump’s fault.
Hear her explanation:
Rep. AOC holds back tears: "If you think I do not understand foreign policy…. the issue is YOU" pic.twitter.com/gdBpDE8jVh
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 22, 2026
She said, “If you think that I don’t understand foreign police because out of hours of discourse about international affairs I pause to think about one of the most sensitive geopolitical issues that currently exist on earth I’m afraid the issue’s not my understanding but rather the problem is perhaps you’ve gotten adjusted to a president that never thinks before he speaks.”
She charges it’s because of what President Trump says, her word salads result.
It’s because of Trump that, when asked by a moderator at a recent conference whether U.S. should commit troops to defend against China, she unleashed: “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.”
🚨 HOLY SMOKES. Rep. AOC just SELF-DESTRUCTED while trying to represent America in Germany
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 13, 2026
"Should the US commit troops to defend Taiwan?"
AOC: "Um, you know, I think that, uhh, eh, this is such a, uh, you know, I th-I think that this is a, umm, this is of course a, uh, a very… pic.twitter.com/VfT98vKhZY
She also blew the answer to a question about Venezuela, claiming it was below the equator, and she said Secretary of State Marco Rubio is racist for saying cowboys come from Spain.
In fact, WorldNetDaily reported on some of the widespread mockery delivered to Cortez after her failed answer, including from Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson.
She made multiple gaffes during her recent overseas trip, including a 40-second rambling answer when asked if the U.S. should send troops to protect Taiwan if China invades the contested Asian island at the Munich Security Conference on Feb. 13. Hanson said on his podcast Ocasio-Cortez was completely ignorant of foreign affairs and that it backfired on her.
WATCH:
“She knows nothing. Nothing. She doesn’t know anything. She was a barista that was kind of cute and glib — and she got elected in a surprise win where nobody really took her seriously,” Hanson said. “And then she went into the Latina DEI and ‘The Squad’ — and she never did any homework. She doesn’t know anything.”
He then imitated her answer: to co-host Jack Fowler: “I would say, ‘Jack, um, well, uh, of course, as you know, it’s a very important question you asked, uh, you know, uh, Jack, uh, and I’ve been thinking about the, the, the, the conference and it’s important, and we worry about it, and it’s something, um, you know, you know that, uh, um, that I, um, I’ve thought a lot about.”
He added, “Well, we wouldn’t have an audience, and we shouldn’t have an audience, in about 24 hours. Well, that’s what she did. She didn’t know anything about Taiwan. She knows nothing of the history of Taiwan. She doesn’t know the history of the Korean War … And so she thought she was going to have a presence. And it kind of boomeranged.”
She also took flak from Vice President JD Vance, WorldNetDaily reported.
During an appearance on Fox’s Martha MacCullum program Tuesday, the VP was shown a video of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attempt to answer a question on U.S. policy toward China at the Munich Security Conference.
WATCH:
🚨🚨 .@JDVance burst out laughing after watching @AOC fumble at a basic foreign policy question.
— Nicole Silverio (@NicoleMSilverio) February 17, 2026
VANCE: Martha, you bring me on your show, you show me the most uncomfortable 20 seconds of television I've ever seen. @DailyCaller pic.twitter.com/he0knx591E
‘That was embarrassing’: Watch JD Vance zing AOC over word salad
‘Uh, you know, uh, Jack, uh’: VDH’s spot-on imitation of AOC answering foreign-policy question
