Trump calls Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a "wonderful young bartender".

In a speech to the Republican Jewish Coalition in which he tried to convince Jewish voters to support his reelection campaign, President Donald Trump addressed an unlikely subject: Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Trump, who started his real estate career in New York in his early twenties, called Ocasio-Cortez a "wonderful young bartender". Prior to joining Congress, Ocasio-Cortez worked as a bartender and waitress until the end of 2017. Trump's commentary sparked laughter and applause among the crowd.

"No, I like it," Trump said. "She is 29 years old."

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In the same breath, the president also knocked out Ocasio-Cortez's signing proposal, the Green New Deal, which he described as "the biggest government coup in the history of the states." -United". The plan aims to combat climate change while stimulating the US economy through investments in infrastructure, jobs and transportation.

In his Saturday speech, Trump called the Green New Deal a "$ 1 trillion" plan – a reference to the annual cost of carrying out the ambitious agenda of the deal. The conservative think tank American Action Forum has estimated that the deal could cost between $ 51 billion and $ 93 trillion over the next decade.

Trump had previously criticized the plan to "suppress" cars and planes – an assertion that has been proven false, although the plan calls for reducing emissions by investing in public transport, high-speed rail and vehicles zero emission. Recently, he also ignored Ocasio-Cortez's career story.

In a speech Friday, the congressman defended her previous work experience against the president's comments.

"I'm proud to be a barmaid, it's not a problem," she says. "There is nothing wrong with being a worker in the United States of America and everything is worthy of it."