<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vice President JD Vance roasted Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Tuesday after she was stumped by a question on Taiwan at the Munich Security Conference.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“You bring me on your show, you show me the most uncomfortable 20 seconds of television I&#8217;ve ever seen,” Vance told Fox News host Martha MacCallum after watching the cringeworthy clip.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ocasio-Cortez </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-mocked-for-global-stage-disaster-then-phones-a-friend"><span style="font-weight: 400;">fumbled</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the question and made other gaffes throughout her tour of the conference, meant to display her foreign policy chops as a young Democratic socialist who is in position to take up the standard of 84-year-old Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Vance said that Ocasio-Cortez’s display shows that she, as a politician, relies too much on scripted answers.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I think it&#8217;s a person who doesn&#8217;t know what she actually thinks, and I&#8217;ve seen this way too much in Washington with politicians where they&#8217;re given lines, and when you ask them to go outside the lines they were given, they completely fall apart,” the vice president said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Look, that was embarrassing,” said Vance. “If I had given that answer, I would say, ‘You know what, maybe I ought to go read a book about China and Taiwan before I go out on the world stage again.’ I hope that Congresswoman Cortez has the same humility. I&#8217;m skeptical.”</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">.<a href="https://twitter.com/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VP</a> just COOKED <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a> for her answers in Munich:</p>
<p>“I think it’s a person who doesn’t know what she actually thinks &#8230; if I had given that answer, I would say, ‘You know what, maybe I oughta go read a book about China and Taiwan before I go out on the world stage again.’” <a href="https://t.co/UfUcjfZSei">pic.twitter.com/UfUcjfZSei</a></p>
<p>— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/2023863411801727153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 17, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As Ocasio-Cortez flashed her smile around Munich last week, she was asked about the United States&#8217; relationship with Taiwan and whether Washington should come to the island nation’s aid if it is attacked by China. For about 20 seconds, Ocasio-Cortez grasped about for a coherent thought before stumbling on an answer that appeared to rehash the United States’ longstanding policy of strategic ambiguity about a potential conflict between Beijing and Taipei.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s flub of the question over Taiwan was perhaps the most embarrassing of her Munich tour, it was not a one-off. The New York Democrat also mistakenly claimed that Venezuela is south of the equator. Ocasio-Cortez also attempted to mock Secretary of State Marco Rubio for pointing out that the American cowboy and much of the culture that surrounds him has its roots in Spain.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Rubio’s speech was a pure appeal to Western culture. My favorite part was when he said that American cowboys came from Spain. I believe the Mexicans and descendants of African slave peoples would like to have a word on that,” Ocasio-Cortez </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-tries-to-dunk-on-rubio-over-cowboys-from-spain-history-dunks-back"><span style="font-weight: 400;">said</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, mistakenly attempting to correct Rubio. Even the word cowboy is a literal translation of the Spanish word “vaquero.”</span></p>

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