Marjorie Taylor Greene Suggests AOC Is Not 'Smart' As She Was A Bartender

Marjorie Taylor Greene insinuated that fellow congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not "smart" because she worked as a bartender before moving into politics—the latest jab in a long-running feud between the Georgia Republican and the New York Democrat.

Speaking at an America First rally in support of Texas GOP congressional primary candidate Christian Collins, Greene singled out Ocasio-Cortez while criticizing proposals that form part of the Democrats' Green New Deal, which Ocasio-Cortez has strongly supported.

Addressing the crowd at Grace Woodlands church in Montgomery County, Texas, Greene questioned where the power will come from to source President Joe Biden's ambitious plans to build 500,000 charging stations for electric vehicles across the country as part of a drive to move the auto industry away from fossil fuel.

"Where is that energy going to be created? Y'all, solar and wind," Greene said in a mocking tone.

"Come on, AOC is so much smarter than all of us, she was a bartender," Greene said, prompting laughter and cheers from the crowd.

"You silly conservative Republicans, you probably have small businesses. And things like that. Shame on you independent people that know how to balance a checkbook. Everyone in Congress knows you don't balance a checkbook, you spend as much money as possible and you just keep printing it."

A clip of Greene's comments was shared online by the Patriot Takes Twitter account, where it has since been viewed more than 180,000 times.

Earlier this month, Ocasio-Cortez appeared to question Greene's intelligence after she mistakenly referred to Capitol Police as being like the cold soup "gazpacho" instead of the Gestapo, the secret police of Nazi Germany, while discussing disputed claims that officers were "spying" on GOP lawmakers.

"At least she leads by example. She clearly banned all books from her house years ago," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on February 9.

Greene's remarks in Texas were not the first time that Ocasio-Cortez's past life as a New York bartender has been brought up in verbal sparring between the pair.

In May 2021, Ocasio-Cortez described Greene as the type of person she "threw out of bars all the time" while discussing an apparent confrontation between the pair outside the House chamber.

Greene is alleged to have yelled at Ocasio-Cortez that she supported Antifa and Black Lives Matter, calling them "terrorist groups", before describing her as a "chicken" who "doesn't want to debate the Green New Deal" after she walked away from her.

"I used to work as a bartender. These are the kinds of people that I threw out of bars all the time," Ocasio-Cortez told reporters following the incident.

In a tweet responding to the remarks, Greene suggested Ocasio-Cortez has "never thrown anyone out of a bar" and that she was "too scared to talk to anyone" before again attacking the Green New Deal.

Greene added: "You're too weak & afraid to debate me about your own socialist policy that would plunge your own constituents into poverty. You only know how to hide and play victim."

Ocasio-Cortez has been contacted for comment.