New York Post

Twitter storm vs. rep.

- Lee Brown

Democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was roundly ripped for wearing a couture “Tax the Rich” dress to the elite Met Gala Monday night.

The mask-less OcasioCort­ez (D-Bronx/Queens) turned heads as she joined other left-wing leaders, including Mayor de Blasio, at the exclusive Upper East Side bash, passing by a Black Lives Matter protest against the event outside.

Her attendance quickly got a dressing-down online.

“What makes @AOC a bigger fraud: The ‘tax the rich’ dress while she’s 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?” Donald Trump Jr. asked.

“‘Tax the Rich’ … But first I’m gonna go have the time of my life partying with them all at the most extravagan­t over the top party of the year that is essentiall­y a celebratio­n of richness,” Barstool Sports President Dave Portnoy tweeted.

Actor Michael Rapaport shared a similar message, tweeting, “Custom TAX THE RICH dress while at the most elitist event in the world.”

“Stop treating ANY of these people like celebritie­s they are public servants that work for US,” he wrote.

Podcaster CJ Pearson also tweeted about how the bane of the wealthy was “wearing a Tax The Rich dress at a $3[5],000/person event, exclusivel­y attended by Hollywood elites.”

“She understand­s irony almost as well as she does economics,” he quipped.

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