Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York said Tuesday that President Trump's second term is a “billionaire feeding frenzy” and a “kiss-a-race.”
“Everyone who's ever been afraid of him, from the most common base level to the most elite level, is afraid of him,” the New York Democrat said of Trump on “The Weekly Show,” a podcast hosted by comedian Jon Stewart. “I liked being involved with it,” he said. They're all like…all out now, because this is a billionaire feeding frenzy. ”
“This is like kissing lace,” she added in the video Highlighted by Mediaite.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, TikTok Technology leaders, including CEO of SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, were in the Capitol Rotunda on Monday for President Trump's inauguration. Attended. Musk has become particularly close to Trump over the last year, strongly supporting Trump's campaign and appearing at some of his rallies.
“I think what's really important for people to understand, and as it is now and every day in this administration, is that you're being lied to,” Ocasio-Cortez said. .
Earlier this week, Stewart criticized the attendance of tech giants at President Trump's inauguration.
“Yes, instead of a seat normally reserved for a Democratic or Republican governor, we're going to give Zack, Bezos, Tim Cook, Elon, Tic Tac guy, Google guy, maybe 20 percent of the world's wealth and your fortune. There were six people sitting there in 100 percent control of the nudes,'' Stewart said.
“Shouldn't this meeting be held in a volcanic hideout near Zurich, or is it just an open source Illuminati now?” he later added. “What's interesting about the plot?”
It would have been unusual for a group like the tech moguls to have such close ties to Trump during the president's first term. Nine years ago, many in this group expressed concern about Trump's political rise.
The Hill has reached out to the White House, Apple, Google, Meta, Tesla, TikTok and Amazon for comment.
