Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was defended by the panelists on NCS after she stumbled over a overseas coverage query, with the hosts stating occasions Donald Trump has accomplished the identical
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Donald Trump was ridiculed as NCS devoted half of its information broadcast to calling out the president’s largest gaffes.
NewsNight time host Abby Phillip, 37, criticized the 79-year-old as she defended Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez following her stumble over a overseas coverage query. The New York congresswoman, 36, was requested if the US ought to assist Taiwan if China were to invade whereas showing on the Munich Security Conference.
AOC appeared to battle to discover her reply as she was filmed utilizing filler phrases earlier than giving her response. Many Republicans, together with Vice President JD Vance, slammed AOC for stalling as she spoke, however Phillip as a substitute identified just a few of the occasions Trump has made embarrassing errors lately.
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Speaking on the NCS show on Tuesday, February 17, Phillip stated, “A flub for AOC. But the question is also what happens when the president, the actual president of the United States, does very similar things on the world stage? Listen.”
A montage clip of Trump’s largest gaffes then performed. The video began with a clip from April 2016 through which he combined up 7-Eleven and 9/11, saying, “I watch our police and our firemen down on 7-Eleven, down at the World Trade Center.”
A clip from January 2026 noticed the president confuse Greenland and Iceland. He stated on stage on the World Economic Forum, “When I told them about Iceland, they loved me. The stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland.”
Trump was additionally heard unable to pronounce Thailand in a clumsy second from August 2020. “Shifting production to thigh land and to Vietnam,” he stated as a substitute.
In one other second from September 2025, the president appeared on Fox News and combined up Albania and Armenia. “I solve wars that was unsolvable,” he claimed, providing the instance, “Azerbaijan and Alabania.”
In one other clip, Trump combined up South Africa and South America, whereas one other video noticed him make up a rustic referred to as Nambia, as a substitute of saying Namibia. The NCS montage ended with a clip of Trump complicated the UK with the EU as he spoke a couple of commerce deal in June final yr.
Once the video completed taking part in, Phillip stated, “So look, I’ll give you that AOC probably should have been more ready for that question. But are we gonna really pretend that the actual president of the United States has not made similar or perhaps worse flubs on the global stage?”
Elsewhere within the section, panelist Leigh McGowan defended AOC and stated, “Listen stumbling over your words for 15 seconds is not the same as being incoherent or uneducated on foreign policy. She had a ton of amazing answers in that same interview, which we are not playing in its entirety umm oh uh — which we do not do for the president.”
A clip of the NCS broadcast was shared on X and viewers have been fast to criticize Trump. “These aren’t even the bad ones… There are many worse ramblings from him,” one particular person fumed, suggesting the video montage may have been longer.
Another posted, “AOC stumbles a line and it’s a week‑long symposium. The actual President does a full NCS Gaffe Cinematic Universe on the world stage and everyone’s like, ‘Anyway…’ The double standard is doing parkour.”
“A “flub” is human. What matters is patterns and consequences,” a 3rd viewer identified. “If we’re going to nitpick one politician’s words, we should hold the same energy when the president does it — especially on the global stage where it affects diplomacy, markets, and national credibility. Consistency isn’t partisan… it’s accountability.”