A town hall held by AOC descended into chaos when some of her conservative constituents took over, savagely roasted her illegal immigrant-focused rhetoric, and continued to dog the representative for her backwards stances on key issues until the meeting was completely out of order and at least one individual was escorted out.
For context, in a video shared on X on February 22, 2024, by the Post Millennial, AOC can be seen attempting to explain her proposed “Green New Deal” to constituents in a town hall meeting. In response, one man in the crowd, who identified himself as Jonathan Davidson, shouted back at her, ripping into the congresswoman for her constant emphasis on illegal aliens and saying, “You don’t care about your constituents!” After the man’s mic-dropping comments, the room quickly erupted in shouts.
In the video, AOC emphatically claims that the Green New Deal will lead to “a lot of environmental justice provisions,” including “clean air in our schools” and “climate policy in the education space.” As the congresswoman attempted to continue, Davidson stood up and interrupted her, saying, “My name is Jonathan Davidson, and all you care about is illegal immigrants.”
After Davidson’s initial interjection, others in the room began shouting, but Davidson persisted, yelling, “You only represent the illegal aliens!” In response, the room erupted in both cheers and boos, and AOC attempted to continue as Davidson was escorted out. AOC continued, saying, “This community clearly supports progressive immigration policies,” adding, “The voices that are anti-immigrant in this country are very loud, but they’re very, very few.”
Continuing, AOC defended her pro-immigration stance, saying, “We have to look around and realize how many of us are here in support of our neighbors and in acknowledging the fact that virtually almost all of us are descendants of immigrants or indigenous people as well.” She added, “And so, I thank you all so much. Let’s move on.”
When the clip of the disrupted town hall meeting was shared on X by The Post Millennial, conservatives ripped into AOC in the comments section, with a user with the handle Ilsa Bogart poking fun at the congresswoman’s bizarre outfit, saying, “What the heck is she wearing?? Dr. Jill’s hand-me-downs?”
Furthermore, over a year after the viral town hall incident, another one of AOC’s meetings was derailed by a furious leftist protester, who, on May 2, 2025, called the congresswoman out for not doing enough to address “the genocide in Gaza.” The woman, who was identified by the press as Jennifer Kings, went on to scream, “Shame on you! ”
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In response, AOC, visibly flustered defended herself from Kings saying, “I more than welcome people who disagree or are super pissed off at me for any issue to come, but we have some ground rules here.” As shouts erupted from the crowd, the congresswoman continued, “Please wait for the Q&A because we don’t want to deprive all of our neighbors of the ability to have information and hear them respond to it.”
Watch AOC’s town hall meeting go awry:
Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video