AOC mocks Stephen Miller’s height while discussing shutdown: 'Never seen him, but he looks 4′10″'

WASHINGTON, DC: Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took a jab at White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, as she called him a "clown" while urging her supporters to "laugh" at "insecure" conservative critics.

The 35-year-old Democratic Rep slammed Miller on her Instagram live on Sunday, October 5, while discussing claims made by the right-wing critics about the government shutdown.

AOC takes jibe at Stephen Miller for his height

AOC said during her Instagram live, "The point is that they are scrapping and grasping at straws because they have nothing else," while dismissing claims that Democrats’ push for health care for undocumented immigrants caused the shutdown.

Taking a jab at Stephen Miller, she said, "Laugh at them! Stephen Miller is a clown! I’ve never seen that guy in real life, but he looks like he’s, like, 4′ 10″."

Moreover, she continued her critique of Miller, ranting for another minute.

"And he looks like he is angry about the fact that he’s 4’10”. And he looks like he is so mad that he is 4′10″, that he has taken that anger out on at any other population possible," AOC said.

She added, "Like, laugh at them! Laugh at them."

AOC, one of the leading voices of the Democratic Party, talked about the dangers of authoritarianism and urged her audience to "be strong for one another".

"Yes, the resistance to authoritarianism is very real. The risks of abuse of power are very real, but one of the most powerful cultural things that you can do to a political movement that is predicated on the puffery of insecure masculinity – that’s what this is about," she said.

AOC says men with 'insecure masculinity' should be made fun of

AOC acknowledged that the issue with these men was less about toxic masculinity, but rather "insecure masculinity", and mentioned that the antidote would be to poke fun at them.

"People talk about toxic masculinity, let’s put that to the side for just one second, this is about insecure masculinity, and one of the best ways that you can dismantle a movement of insecure men is by making fun of them," she said.

AOC continued, "By having secure men who aren’t afraid of successful people around them, who are good dads, who have strong values, also participating in that as well. So, that’s what I have for that."

She also responded to a viewer who chimed in, "short kings are great", and clarified that her jabs were not aimed at height itself but at what she called overcompensation driven by insecurity.

"Absolutely...I’m not here to make fun of anyone’s anything, but the way people overcompensate over their own stories is what I’m talking about there. So thank you for the clarification. I appreciate that," AOC added.

She also mentioned, "Shout out to our short kings. Someone said, 'not short kings, short troll'. That’s correct, there’s a difference."

AOC says Trump wants to 'make sure kids are dying' with government shutdown

During an MSNBC appearance, AOC said that President Donald Trump "one day" decided to "just make sure that kids are dying", all while the government remains in shutdown limbo.

"I will say, because I saw some senators speculating about this, and I saw some Republican members of Congress saying, 'Oh, well, if we have this shutdown, it’s because of AOC'," she said.

AOC continued, "Well, if that’s the case, my office is open and you are free to walk in and negotiate with me directly, because what I’m not going to do is tolerate four million uninsured Americans because Donald Trump decided one day that he wants to just make sure that kids are dying because they don’t have access to insurance."

Stephen Miller responds to AOC's height jibe

The senior White House aide appeared on 'The Ingraham Angle' on Monday, October 6, as the clip played showing AOC declaring that Miller is "angry" over his height.

Miller, who is 5'10" tall, laughed after Laura Ingraham described him as AOC’s “favorite target” and reacted to the clip. "Well, we knew — we knew that her brain didn’t work, now we know their eyes don’t work," he said.

He added, "The — I mean she’s just, she’s a mess, right? What a trainwreck! What a trainwreck!"

Meanwhile, the White House also didn’t waste time responding to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s charge.

Spokesperson Kush Desai told the New York Post, "If AOC really cared about America’s kids, she would stop drumming up baseless hysteria and tell her fellow Democrats to reopen the federal government and restore confidence for the millions of children who rely on WIC and other federal programs."