{"id":749403,"date":"2021-09-13T21:50:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T01:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=749403"},"modified":"2021-09-13T21:51:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T01:51:01","slug":"aoc-mocked-criticized-after-wearing-tax-the-rich-dress-to-elitist-met-gala-branded-a-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aoc-mocked-criticized-after-wearing-tax-the-rich-dress-to-elitist-met-gala-branded-a-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"AOC Mocked, Criticized After Wearing \u2018Tax The Rich\u2019 Dress To Elitist Met Gala, Branded A \u2018Fraud\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faoc-mocked-criticized-after-wearing-tax-the-rich-dress-to-elitist-met-gala-branded-a-fraud%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=749403&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/AOC-2-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"e12o35pe0 css-1jo504w\" readability=\"40.24064171123\">\n<p>Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY) faced intense backlash and mockery online on Monday evening after attending the Met Gala, an event where individual tickets reportedly cost $30,000, in a designer dress that stated, \u201cTax The Rich.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.8397790055249\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW \u2013 Democrat Rep. AOC wears a &#8220;Tax The Rich&#8221; dress at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MetGala?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MetGala<\/a>, where a ticket costs $30,000 to attend.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/V9B7UGoGX5\">pic.twitter.com\/V9B7UGoGX5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/disclosetv\/status\/1437566054805524482?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 13, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIndividual tickets are reportedly priced at $30,000 a piece, a far cry from when [Vogue editor-in-chief Anna] Wintour first took over the running of the event in 1995 when they were just $1,000,\u201d Newsweek <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/met-gala-ticket-cost-money-raised-1627921\">reported<\/a>. \u201cThen there are the tables, typically bought by brands and fashion houses. These reportedly start at $275,000.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AOC was widely mocked and criticized online, including by her supporters, for the stunt, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ej Dickson<\/strong>, senior writer at Rolling Stone, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/yCSZz\">tweeted<\/a>: \u201cAm I the only one who thinks this is really f***ing stupid[?] 1) The dress is ugly, 2) She\u2019s at a $35k per person event and this isn\u2019t nearly the own she thinks it is. 3) The dress is ugly. I mean I love her but come on this is so dumb. Peak girl boss s**t.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Glenn Greenwald<\/strong>, a progressive blogger, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1437582324976300032\">tweeted<\/a>: \u201cLots of people commenting snidely on the lack of masks and social distancing in this opulent indoor event in the middle of a pandemic but \u2014 as was true of Obama\u2019s indoor bash \u2014 COVID wasn\u2019t invited to the #MetGala and these are the sophisticated people who aren\u2019t in danger.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX)<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanCrenshawTX\/status\/1437586722800418822\">tweeted<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019m not even mad at the lack of self awareness or hypocrisy anymore. At this point it\u2019s just hilarious. These people are a giant joke.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Donald Trump Jr.<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DonaldJTrumpJr\/status\/1437576536958423042\">tweeted<\/a>: \u201cWhat makes @AOC a bigger fraud: The \u201ctax the rich\u201d dress while she\u2019s hanging out with a bunch of wealthy leftwing elites or the lack of masks after spending the past 18 months as one of the biggest authoritarian mask Karens in the country?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>This is a developing news story, refresh the page for updates.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY) faced intense backlash and mockery online on Monday evening after attending the Met Gala, an event where individual tickets reportedly cost $30,000, in a designer &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}