Benny Johnson says Vance-Rubio 2028 'dream team' will crush AOC after Munich gaffe: 'Keep yapping'

WASHINGTON, DC: Conservative commentator Benny Johnson delivered a sharp takedown of Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's (D-NY) remarks at the Munich Security Conference on Fox News.

According to Johnson, a potential 2028 Republican ticket featuring Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio would be an unstoppable "dream team" that could crush Ocasio-Cortez's presidential ambitions. 

Benny Johnson blasts AOC over Munich remarks

On Fox News, Johnson described Ocasio-Cortez's Munich appearance as a disastrous "coming out party" for 2028. "This was a '28 coming-out party for AOC and it didn't go well," he declared.

"JD Vance and Marco Rubio would be the DREAM TEAM. It would be Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal. It would be Dennis Rodman and Michael Jordan, that is for sure," Johnson said. "And who would they be facing exactly? AOC, who has no idea what a 'Taiwan' is. She has no idea where Venezuela is on a map because they don't teach geography in bartending school!"

"This was one of the most humiliating displays I have ever seen. She waited for 27 seconds, an excruciating 27 seconds, to answer the question, what is a Taiwan precisely?" he quipped.

Johnson encouraged her ambitions while questioning her honesty. "And she's going to be running. So I say, like, let her keep going! ... AOC can't even tell you where she's from. She's not actually from the Bronx. She's from a place called Yorktown Heights, a leafy, rich suburb in upstate New York. So if she's lying about that, she's dishonest about a lot of things. But the one thing that she's absolutely being dishonest about is that she's not running in 2028."

"It's been a nightmare. Even the New York Times and Politico are calling it a nightmare. So keep going, baby. Keep going. We love it. AOC, keep yapping!" he concluded.

AOC faces backlash over Munich Security Conference gaffes

Ocasio-Cortez's troubles stemmed from a panel question on Taiwan's defense. Asked by Bloomberg's Francine Lacqua, "Would and should the US actually commit US troops to defend Taiwan if China were to move?" she paused for about 27 seconds before delivering a rambling response.

"Um, you know, I think that this is such a, you know, I think that this is, this is of course a very longstanding policy of the United States," she began. "What we are hoping for is that we want to make sure that we never get to that point, and we want to make sure that we are moving in all of our economic research and our global positions to avoid any such confrontation and for that question to even arise," she said.

That said, the gaffe wasn't isolated. Ocasio-Cortez's Munich appearance included several other blunders.

She incorrectly described Venezuela as lying “below the equator” (the country is entirely north of it), confused the Trans-Atlantic Partnership with the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and botched a history lesson on the Spanish origins of American cowboys.