AOC Slams 'Billionaire Feeding Frenzy' At Trump Trough: 'It Is A Kiss-Ass Race'
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“Everyone is being ripped off,” the Democrat said while criticizing the tastemakers and billionaires normalizing Trump and currying favor with him.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is slamming the U.S. billionaire class for going “all in” on President Donald Trump after his election victory in November, noting that many who previously criticized him are now in a “kiss-ass race” to show Trump their utmost fealty.
“All of these people that were scared before about being associated with him, from the most common basic level to the most elite level, they’re all all-in now because this is now a billionaire feeding frenzy,” she said Thursday on Jon Stewart’s “The Weekly Show” podcast.
“It is a kiss-ass race,” Ocasio-Cortez continued. “It is, ‘How can I show how much fealty I have to Donald Trump in order to get my digs?’ I think what’s really important for people to understand, now and every day of this administration, is that you’re being ripped off.”
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