Cruz calls AOC an ‘idiot’ over his comments about billionaires, the American Revolution

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, had harsh words Monday in response to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s, DN.Y., recent comments about billionaires.

“Well, there’s a town somewhere that’s missing its idiot,” Cruz said on his “Decision” podcast. “What he is saying is strangely stupid and has deep ideas.”

Cruz was responding to Ocasio-Cortez saying billionaires like Elon Musk did not “earn” their wealth without “abusing” the system.

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“You can’t win billions of dollars,” Ocasio-Cortez said Thursday. “You can get market power. You can break the rules. You can do all kinds of things. You can abuse labor laws. You can pay people less than they deserve. But you can’t get that, can you? And so you have to create a myth … you have to create a myth to earn it.”

After receiving pushback, he doubled down on his views, saying that the first American Revolution was fought against the “billionaires of their time.”

“I want to talk about how this is happening in our country’s heritage, because America was founded … you look at Thomas Jefferson writing to Madison about the British rebellion,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “The American Revolution was against the billions of their time. And we are declaring independence from such an extreme marriage of wealth and power and empire that the voices of everyday people were not.”

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Sen. Ted Cruz responded to the comments of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on her “Decision” podcast. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images; Alex Kraus/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Cruz, who made his comments about X during a public hearing, elaborated on his opinion, explaining that many of the “billionaires” of the time helped fund the Revolutionary War.

“Nobody has amassed a billion dollars, but the richest people in America are the people who are funding and supporting the anti-government revolution,” Cruz said. “And like the little Marxist that he is, he turns that story on its head and says that the revolution was against the free American business that actually funded the revolution, and what they were fighting for was to give the government more power. He’s King George in this story.”

The Texas senator also accused Ocasio-Cortez of pushing communism by trying to rewrite history and warned him that communist countries have brought disastrous results.

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Attorney Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has doubled down on her claims after being criticized. (Sven Hoppe/photo alliance via Getty Images)

“The AOC, I’m sure he doesn’t know the facts, but everywhere his government system has been used, communism, the result is to end poverty, hunger, suffering, misery, and it’s about human rights, murder, torture, imprisonment and in China, at least concentration camps. That’s what the left says enough, and they don’t do enough to oppose and be honest. That,” said Cruz.

Fox News Digital has reached out to Ocasio-Cortez’s office for comment.

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After his comments that billionaires didn’t “earn” their wealth received criticism, Ocasio-Cortez defended his claims to X.

“The biggest form of theft in America is wage theft. $50 billion a year is stolen from American workers,” he wrote. “Some people get angry that I’m drawing attention to this. That’s on them. Let them call me a wimp, dumb, ignorant, girl, uneducated – these people will say anything to distract or downplay the fact that working people are suffering, and giving people a good shake means we have to have a grown-up conversation about governance and abuse of power.”