The White House has issued a bizarrely crude sex insult to Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez after she mocked Stephen Miller’s height.
The Democratic congresswoman faced an unexpected jab after she referred to Trump’s deputy chief of staff as a ‘clown’ and suggested he was under five feet tall.
Responding to her video on X, Steven Cheung, the President’s director of communications, commented: ‘Sounds like @AOC is often used to the shorter things in life [pinching hand emoji].’
The emoji — depicting a thumb and index finger close together — is frequently used online to imply a small penis, though it is officially intended to symbolize something tiny, delicate, or minimal in general.
The exchange began after Ocasio-Cortez remarked in a video on Sunday: ‘I’ve never met [Miller] in person, but he seems to be around 4’10”.
‘And he appears irritated by being 4’10”. He seems so upset about his height that he channels that frustration toward various groups.’
Miller, who has claimed he is 5’10” tall, responded to AOC’s comments the following night on Fox News.
Miller reacted with a smile to AOC’s comments attacking his height during a live TV interview
Miller slammed the New York lawmaker by claiming every time she attacks Republicans their approval ratings go up
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In response to AOC’s video on X, Cheung posted: ‘Sounds like @AOC is often used to the shorter things in life [pinching hand emoji].’ The pinching hand emoji — showing a thumb and index finger closing together — is commonly used online to suggest a small penis, though its official meaning is to represent something very small, delicate, or minimal.
‘Well, we knew that her brain didn’t work, now we know their eyes don’t work,’ Miller told host Laura Ingraham, with a laugh.
‘I mean, she is a mess, right? What a trainwreck. What a trainwreck.’
The powerful White House advisor went on to claim that every time AOC is on television that ‘Republican approval ratings go up.’
‘Democrat approval ratings go down. That lady is a walking nightmare.’
Near the end of the interview, Ingraham defended Miller’s height by claiming he is either 5’10” or 5’11” before Miller confirmed his actual height is 5’10”.
Following the Monday night interview, Ocasio-Cortez reacted with glee on her X account.
‘I cannot believe they aired this and made him listen to it live,’ she wrote to her followers. ‘I am crying.’
Meanwhile, the White House hit back at the Democratic lawmaker, who is engaged to web developer Riley Roberts, with the cheeky comment.
In an ethics committee released in July, Ocasio-Cortez, 35, was criticized for listing Roberts as her ‘spouse’ on federal documents she filed to attend the 2021 Met Gala. The longtime couple are not legally married.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her fiancé Riley Roberts at the Met Gala in 2021
Stephen Miller married his wife Katie Miller in 2020. The couple have three children.
In her initial video on Instagram attacking Miller, AOC told her followers that ‘MAGA men’ need to be mocked for their ‘insecure masculinity.’
‘People talk about toxic masculinity, let’s put that to the side for just one second, this is about insecure masculinity, and one of the best ways that you can dismantle a movement of insecure men is by making fun of them,’ she shouted into the camera.
