“There was a time where you couldn’t speak bad,” the U.S. president said. “But today, you have AOC plus three and you have all these lunatics.”
(Sept. 2, 2025 / JNS) U.S. President Donald Trump told the Daily Caller last week that the pro-Israel lobby is no longer in “total control” over Congress.
“There was a time where you couldn’t speak bad. If you wanted to be a politician, you couldn’t speak badly,” Trump said, per a transcript that the publication released. “But today, you have, you know, AOC plus three, and you have all these lunatics, and they’ve really, they’ve changed it.”
AOC refers to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), a member of the far-left “squad” in Congress. Ocasio-Cortez and the other “squad” members—Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.)—are among the Jewish state’s harshest critics on Capitol Hill.