AOC launches inflammatory rant against Trump leading up to inauguration; Eve of an authoritarian administration
New York Rep.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez launched an unhinged rant Sunday against President-elect Donald Trump – claiming the nation was on the “eve of an authoritarian administration.”The lefty lawmaker representing parts of Queens and the Bronx let loose during a series of Instagram videos in which she slammed TikTok for crediting Trump for the social media platform’s return after it was briefly offline in the United States this weekend.“We are on the eve of an authoritarian administration,” the congresswoman said a day before Trump’s inauguration.
“This is what 21st century fascism is starting to look like.”Ocasio-Cortez questioned why TikTok was giving kudos to Trump considering he’s not yet president and is a “private citizen.”“They are signaling that they are privately collaborating, they have agreed to privately collaborate with Donald Trump and the Trump administration,” she said, adding she believes TikTok is being used as a “propaganda tool for the right.”TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance was given until Jan.19 to either sell the platform’s US business or be banned from the country after Congress overwhelmingly approved the measure in April and was subsequently signed into law by President Biden over national security worries. Trump has signaled he is willing to work with the company to keep TikTok online.Ocasio-Cortez, who voted against the TikTok legislation, then argued every mass social media app “has been taken over by the right wing,” including X, owned by Trump supporter Elon Musk and Meta, which operates Facebook and Instagram.Meta founder, Mark Zuckerberg, discontinued fact-checking on his platforms this month, Ocasio-Cortez offered as a reason why Meta was now supporting the GOP.Zuckerberg has also met with Trump in Florida and donated $1 million to the president-elect’s inaugural fund.The “Squad” member, who is starting her fourth term in office, then argued Republicans want to model them...