<p>The hosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; elevated Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) to &#8220;MENSA&#8221; status during Wednesday&#8217;s broadcast, drawing a bizarre comparison between the Democratic socialist darling and President Donald Trump.</p>
<p>Led by Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar, the ABC midday talk show&#8217;s hosts argued that Trump&#8217;s occasional verbal gaffes — including one recent instance in which he mentioned Iceland in place of Greenland — stand as incontrovertible evidence that Ocasio-Cortez is a certifiable genius by comparison.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">After playing soundbites of Trump mispronouncing words, Joy Behar tries to claim AOC&#8217;s rambling answer on Taiwan was &#8220;Mensa&#8221; material.<br />
Savannah Chrisley immediately counters: &#8220;Mispronouncing a word is totally different than not knowing your position on Taiwan.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/702X6SOJNY">pic.twitter.com/702X6SOJNY</a></p>
<p>— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/2024155209220464949?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 18, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
<p>The hyperbolic comparison came after the Bronx congresswoman made several statements over the weekend that spotlighted her ignorance of both world history and current U.S. foreign policy. The first was a statement she made criticizing Secretary of State Marco Rubio for claiming that horses and the idea of American &#8220;cowboys&#8221; were originally brought to the United States by Spanish explorers and conquistadors. Of course, Rubio was correct. And the second was a rambling, incoherent response to a question about whether or not American troops should defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion.</p>
<p>Goldberg responded to the brouhaha regarding Ocasio-Cortez by playing a brief clip of Trump clearly saying &#8220;Iceland&#8221; when he meant to say &#8220;Greenland.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;So, clearly &#8230;&#8221; she said, letting her voice trail off.</p>
<p>&#8220;My mother used to say, &#8216;Don&#8217;t spit up in the air, it comes back in your face,'&#8221; Behar added. &#8220;Okay? Check him out before you start attacking AOC, who, by the way, it sounded a little &#8216;homina, homina, homina,&#8217; but you know, compared to him it&#8217;s like MENSA.&#8221;</p>
<p>Guest Savannah Chrisley stepped in to defend the president, saying that his &#8220;mispronouncing a word&#8221; was a far cry from having no idea what a policy was or how to articulate it.</p>
<p>&#8220;[It&#8217;s] totally different than not knowing your position on Taiwan,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And what&#8217;s important is how you recover from something.&#8221;</p>
<p>Trump followed his gaffe by meeting with world leaders and discussing global affairs and American interests, while Ocasio-Cortez went to The New York Times to complain that conservatives were sharing unflattering clips of her saying exactly what she&#8217;d said.</p>
<p>&#8220;The recovery is what mattered, and AOC just didn&#8217;t have a recovery,&#8221; Chrisley said.</p>
<p>&#8220;But he does it over and over again,&#8221; Behar complained. &#8220;How about the quantity of times?&#8221;</p>
<p>Goldberg then interrupted to point out that Trump is the current president, which obviously made his verbal gaffes a bigger deal than AOC&#8217;s, but made no effort to explain why she&#8217;d been silent while former President Joe Biden — while in office — was often unable to complete a sentence without mumbling something unintelligible or saying something staffers would have to clean up later.</p>
<p>&#8220;My point is, I can take &#8216;homina, homina&#8217; from congresspeople and stuff, you don&#8217;t have your stuff together, that&#8217;s on you,&#8221; Goldberg declared. &#8220;Can&#8217;t take it from the guy who says he&#8217;s the leader of the free world.&#8221;</p>

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