Back in February, when he was still running the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and thus in a state of war with the leftist fraud and patronage machine that DOGE was trying to cut to bits by slashing all the fraudulent and wasteful federal spending it could find, Elon Musk sent AOC into a spiralling meltdown during a congressional hearing.
As background, the hearing in which AOC had her total freakout about Elon was a House Energy and Commerce hearing on Feb. 25. During the hearing, AOC lost it over how DOGE was slashing wasteful “research” spending that ended up mostly spent on overhead, saying that the layoffs and funding cuts are causing serious consequences. She also tried personally insulting Elon as not being a real engineer.
Beginning, AOC freaked out over the fact that DOGE was looking into the Treasury’s payment system, claiming that investigating where money was going was a way of letting teenagers “raid the treasury.” She said, “DOGE did not exist two years ago. 19 year olds were not raiding the Treasury two years ago.” For reference, Elon has since revealed that the Treasury was just wasting massive amounts of money by not even making basic checks of who it was paying.
In any case, AOC wasn’t done with her comparison of early 2025 with two years before, claiming that DOGE was dragging doctors into “kangaroo courts,” saying, “people who have no idea with medical background have not been hauling in and creating kangaroo courts for scientists to dismiss them two years ago.”
That is when she got to her tedious rant attacking Elon Musk, insisting that Elon is not a scientist or engineer and is thus unequipped to make decisions about fraud. She said, “That started happening now. Elon Musk is not a scientist. He is not an engineer. He is a billionaire con man with a lot of money. He does not have this kind of good background.”
She then insisted that Elon was ripping off the country by slashing fraudulent and wasteful spending, randomly bringing up biomedical engineering. She said, “And in fact, if we while there’s some disruption over that, I sincerely ask you all, I sincerely ask you all, to examine what expertise he has in approving medical devices, in eiomedical engineering, devices. And if you all think that he is an expert in that, I’ve got a bridge to nowhere to sell you.”
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AOC rages against Elon Musk and DOGE.
“Elon Musk is not a scientist. He is not an engineer. He is a billionaire con man with a lot of money.” pic.twitter.com/qKCKuSPHdp
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) March 5, 2025
That wasn’t the first time that AOC attacked Elon and claimed he wasn’t intelligent. Doing so just days before her hearing meltdown, AOC took to Instagram to insist that Elon wasn’t smart, a ridiculous claim given the magnificent companies he has built and been deeply involved in running.
She said, in that ridiculous video, “This dude is not smart, and the danger in the lack of intelligence and the lack of expertise that Elon has—I mean, this guy is one of the most morally vacant, but also just least knowledgeable about these systems that we know of.”
Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video