AOC roasted over post about Colombia tariffs and coffee prices that 'aged like hot milk'

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., weighed successful connected President Donald Trump's ongoing tariff feud with Colombian President Gustavo Petro – but not each societal media idiosyncratic bought her comments.

The spat betwixt Trump and Petro began erstwhile the Colombian person refused to accept 2 deportation flights implicit the weekend, prompting Trump to unleash retaliatory measures. Both satellite leaders threatening to rise tariffs connected imported products by 25% to 50%, and Trump ordered a question prohibition and visa revocations for each Colombian authorities officials.

"I was conscionable informed that two repatriation flights from the United States, with a large fig of Illegal Criminals, were not allowed to land in Colombia," Trump wrote connected Truth Social. "This bid was fixed by Colombia’s Socialist President Gustavo Petro, who is already precise unpopular amongst his people."

"Petro’s denial of these flights has jeopardized the National Security and Public Safety of the United States, truthful I person directed my Administration to instantly instrumentality the pursuing urgent and decisive retaliatory measures."

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AOC gave her instrumentality connected the Trump-Petro feud successful an X station connected Sunday. (Reuters)

In an X station connected Sunday, Ocasio-Cortez insisted that American consumers are the lone enactment that wage tariffs.

"To ‘punish’ Colombia, Trump is astir to marque each American wage adjacent much for coffee," the New York congresswoman said successful a post. "Remember: WE wage the tariffs, not Colombia."

"Trump is each astir making ostentation WORSE for moving people Americans, not better," she added. "He’s lining the pockets of himself and the billionaire class."

Petro appeared to beryllium a instrumentality of AOC's post, reposting it connected his ain X account.

While tariffs bash person the imaginable to inflate prices, the importer, which is the institution oregon entity bringing the goods into the U.S., volition wage the existent tariff to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

But inflated prices are not guaranteed – sometimes, tariffs tin trim the satellite terms of an entity arsenic suppliers unreserved to clasp entree to the ample U.S. market. It is imaginable that java suppliers successful antithetic countries, specified arsenic Vietnam and Brazil – which nutrient much java than Colombia – would little oregon support their prices.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., slammed Trump for threatening Colombia's president with tariffs.  ( Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Ocasio-Cortez's tweet racked up implicit 47,000 likes from supporters arsenic of 8 p.m., but received scorn from Trump supporters and tariff advocates.

"World record. 35 minutes and the tweet already aged similar blistery milk," the societal media relationship Catturd wrote, referencing Petro's contiguous connection to transport Colombian migrants connected his statesmanlike plane.

"Who wants to archer her that determination are different countries that export coffee, not conscionable Columbia," California State Assembly Bill Essayli wrote. 

Conservative commentator John Cardillo echoed Essayli's sentiment, suggesting that the South American state "should instrumentality their amerciable aliens back."

"Plenty of different nations turn java beans," Cardillo wrote connected X. "We tin bargain the java from them."

Activist Adam Lowisz responded to Ocasio-Cortez by insisting that the Democratic person "doesn't recognize however tariffs work."

"Coffee from Colombia volition summation successful price, truthful we volition acquisition java from suppliers successful different countries who bash instrumentality backmost their illegals," the blimpish X idiosyncratic wrote. "Businesses volition hesitate to put successful Colombia immoderate further if they proceed to beryllium atrocious actors."

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Colombia's President Gustavo Petro offered up his ain statesmanlike level for deportation flights aft Trump threatened the state with tariffs and more. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

Fox News Digital reached retired to Ocasio-Cortez's bureau for further comment.

Fox News Digital's Kyle Schmidbauer contributed to this report.