AOC Sets GOP Critics Straight Over Vanity Fair Photoshoot

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez found herself the subject of conservative ire over something absolutely ridiculous, yet again. 

This time around, the Congresswoman took flack after she graced the cover of Vanity Fair, where she discussed an array of topics from the patriarchy to her upbringing to how the United States financially upholds the rich and lets everyone else down. But the criticism wasn’t aimed at her words so much as it was the outfit she wore for the photoshoot.

According to estimates, her clothing cost around $14,000 — something critics called hypocritical, considering she spent a good portion of the article talking about her past financial struggles and at one point blasted President Trump for paying only $750 in taxes.

The price tag soon circulated around social media, with conservatives slamming AOC for pushing socialist ideals while wearing nice clothes.

I wonder what brand of socialism allows you to get a $14,000 suit for Vogue photoshoots. See you soon, Alexandria. Looking forward to dismantling your socialist agenda in my finest Macy’s clothes like normal working people. https://t.co/KT2olZHqbq

— Lauren Boebert for Congress (R-CO3) (@laurenboebert) October 29, 2020

Only a socialist can pose in $14,000 clothes during a pandemic, advocate for policies that will force people to pay more of their hard earned money in taxes and not realize they’re dressed in the clothes of hypocrisy. AOC is like every socialist leader, destructive & greedy. pic.twitter.com/66yGjzpXvI

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) October 29, 2020

.@AOC – donning a $14,000 wardrobe on the cover of @VanityFair – made one thing: she’s everything she hates and everything she pretends not to be.

She’s a fraud.

— CJ Pearson (@thecjpearson) October 29, 2020

To the triggered,one last time: Here is the cost of AOC’s wardrobe.She is a politician not a professional model who cannot have a choice on clothes for a photo shoot.Why not wear clothes working class wears?Fun fact: $2850 Loewe suit was ‘gifted’ to her and she happily accepted. pic.twitter.com/ERE3PwtcNX

— Sunanda Vashisht (@sunandavashisht) October 29, 2020

This is too reminiscent of that time AOC was criticized for spending $300 on a haircut — in other words, just as these people didn’t understand how much haircuts cost, they don’t understand how magazine shoots work.

Thinking that AOC bought the clothes herself, or even kept them after the shoot, is absolutely laughable, as is the idea that Vanity Fair needed to provide her with thrift store finds for a photoshoot in order to nix any hypocrisy. And the Congresswoman was quick to fire back at her critics for their willful ignorance.

The whole “she wore clothes in a magazine, let’s pretend they’re hers” gimmick is the classic Republican strategy of “let’s willfully act stupid, and if the public doesn’t take our performative stupidity seriously then we’ll claim bias.”

GOP, get yourselves together. It’s sad.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 29, 2020

Republicans are Very Mad (again) about my appearance. This time they’re mad that I look good in borrowed clothes (again).

Listen, if Republicans want pointers on looking your best, I’m happy to share.

Tip #1: Drink water and don’t be racist

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 29, 2020

And the internet largely had her back against the swath of conservative condemnation, no matter how absurd it clearly was.

To be fair, Jeanine doesn’t get to keep the wine either. She’s contractually obligated to piss it all out on air right into the faces of her audience.

— Thakkar – – I really do not need any more characte (@gpthakkar) October 30, 2020

The same people who are outraged at AOC for slipping into a borrowed $14,000 outfit for a Vanity Fair photo shoot are somehow OK with Donald Trump slipping it into a porn star for $130,000.

— Hamish Mitchell (@H_MitchellPhoto) October 29, 2020

Pretty sure she didn’t spend $70,000 of taxpayer funds for her hair either.

— EM (@savedemocracy18) October 29, 2020

You do realize she didn’t buy the clothes nor is she keeping the clothes. She wore fashion for a fashion magazine. What would have made you happy? Wearing paper towels?

— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) October 29, 2020

Also that they have no idea how socialism works.

— Bryan Sharafkhah-Sharp (@MrBryanSharp) October 29, 2020

And these two tweets pretty much sum up why there’s no hypocrisy happening on AOC’s part simply because she wore the clothes provided for her during a photoshoot:

If a socialist has one spoon they would not be a better socialist if they started eating with their hands. The idea is to find the people who have a thousand spoons locked in the attic of their mansion at the center of a spoonless town

— your friend, Dracula (@Remember_Sarah) October 29, 2020