David Axelrod — Obama's old strategist and CNN fixture — waded into the AOC fan club waters with what he probably thought was a glowing endorsement. Commenting on a clip where Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez brushes off an early poll out of Canada no less showing her beating JD Vance in a hypothetical matchup but adds she'd "stomp him," Axelrod dropped this gem:
.@AOC has something you can't teach. https://t.co/FiYJ2BWc61
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) December 18, 2025
Ok, so ... this is not a great turn of phrase.
We get it, he was trying to say she's so amazing at this political thing that it just comes naturally or something but, that's not how X took it.
Or how X ran with it.
He set her up for a pretty spectacular trolling:
Two things, actually. https://t.co/1sjqW0unXs pic.twitter.com/l5QMhgQBJe
— Beorn (@Beorn2000) December 18, 2025
*cough cough*
No, but a shot of penicillin can help clear it up. https://t.co/skhb1GgGLm
— Johnny Utah (@JohnnyU2019) December 18, 2025
Heh.
“Please hire me” https://t.co/Qrz3rke3pM
— Archer (@Archer74885050) December 18, 2025
Someone wants a job.
She's a Latinx bartender in New York City. https://t.co/J1kcQ5XF92
— Howling (@thinfoidluvr) December 18, 2025
Being annoying and fake ? https://t.co/CBA5wPBfME
— Newsfox (@theNewsfox) December 18, 2025
Oof.
You're quite wrong. Antisemitism is eminently teachable. The universities do it all the time.
— benjamin kerstein 🇮🇱 (@benj_kerstein) December 18, 2025
Indeed it is.
Stupidity is, in fact, impossible to teach.
— Will Collier (@willcollier) December 18, 2025
As we have seen time and time again.
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