AOC Calls Elon Musk ‘Unintelligent’ Just In Time For Him To Prove Her Wrong: ‘Can You Spot The Difference?’

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has certainly posted her share of social media content aimed at political rivals over the years, despite the fact that what she thinks are brilliant retorts often fall apart under even the slightest scrutiny.

That familiar scenario played out once again this week, when the New York Democrat decided to take aim at Big Tech billionaire and Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Musk.

She went on a tirade insulting his intelligence, but as the Daily Caller pointed out, Musk soon got the last word without needing to say anything at all:

Yes, it’s particularly rich coming from Ocasio-Cortez, whose brain is about as dense and congealed as Joe Biden’s half-melted soup of a mind. Maybe she is so upset because, unlike her years spent in Congress play-acting as a lawmaker, Trump and Musk have already been effective just months into the new administration, completely gutting the corrupt U.S. Agency for International Development.

But, to add salt to the wound, Musk’s rocket company, SpaceX, is set to launch a Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday.

So here we have a millennial congressman posting vlogs on her Instagram, and then a tech billionaire shooting rockets into orbit. One is dumb; the other is smart. Can you spot the difference?

Plenty of others shared their own criticism of Ocasio-Cortez’s rant:

AOC calls Elon Musk the most unintelligent billionaire ever.

She unwittingly, may be the greatest comedian of our day. I know I’m laughing.#ElonMusk #Trump #DOGE #AOC pic.twitter.com/I8gU5Yi5XJ

— Gary Wehunt (@gwehunt22) February 4, 2025

AOC calling Elon Musk "unintelligent" might actually be the dumbest thing she has ever said, which is really saying something. pic.twitter.com/YocyYB5rso

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) February 4, 2025

Some of her previous anti-Musk statements have drawn similar backlash:

WRONG AOC!

I voted for Donald Trump to be President FULLY KNOWING that Elon Musk, RFK Jr., Kash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard and others were part of the deal.

That's one of the reasons I did vote for him! pic.twitter.com/vb6a3JOvOs

— Gays For Trump (@GaysForTrump24) February 3, 2025

The New York Post also covered the context surrounding her latest social media video:

Many employees at his companies have described how Musk would bounce around to different teams at his firms and work with them to tackle some of their most pressing engineering problems.

“He really is a genius when it comes to material properties, when it comes to engineering,” biographer Walter Isaacson said of Musk.

Isaacson caveated that Musk, who claims to suffer from Asperger’s syndrome, is “not a genius” on “human emotions.”

Ocasio-Cortez, who has had public flaps with Musk in the past, panned his Department of Government Efficiency team for its scrutiny of the Treasury Department.

Last week, DOGE obtained access to the federal payment system to aid in its efforts to thoroughly comb government spending, a move that has rankled Democrats.

Here’s Fox News Channel host Sean Hannity’s take on the left’s disdain toward Musk: