Laura Loomer has received backlash after deciding to mount an unsolicited, bottom-of-the-bunker attack on Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC). Not for her policy. Not for her politics. But for her body. Yes, in 2025, Loomer is still clinging to the 2006 mean girl manual, and social media ate her up for it.
On Sunday, Loomer posted a clip of AOC endorsing Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor. Ocasio-Cortez appeared on X (formerly known as Twitter) dressed in a fierce red dress, looking robust, confident, and, heaven forbid, like an actual human woman. But Loomer, clearly threatened by a Latina progressive icon claiming her voice on something meaningful, chose to comment on her weight.’
“Yikes. AOC has put on at least 50 pounds since she was elected to Congress,” Loomer tweeted. “She’s becoming enormous,” she went on before adding AOC like the limelight-hungry parasite that she is.
The Internet Was Not Having It
Loomer’s attempt at a viral fatphobic moment failed the instant it went live. The comments transformed into a cyber-roast so fiery it could char her credibility to smithereens, what there is of it. On Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram, everybody dragged Loomer for filth and not just for the comment but for being the kind of has-been troll who mistakes meanness for staying in the game.
She was accused of obsessing over Ocasio-Cortez’s figure instead of her policies.
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Come on. This is not about weight. This is about Loomer getting defensive because of the presence of a strong woman she can’t silence into submission. And when you’re a loser congressional candidate, a professional Twitter victim, and a card-carrying conspiracy theorist, cheap shots are all you can use because you have nothing else.
AOC, Unbothered as Always
While AOC hasn’t responded directly to the post, her track record is that she’s too busy fighting for healthcare, housing, and climate justice to bother with Loomer’s pathetic efforts at body policing. That’s, after all, a sitting U.S. Congresswoman who has built her career around dismantling structural oppression and being relentlessly grilled about everything from her lipstick to her dance.
And yet, amidst it all, she remains one of the best progressive voices in American politics. Meanwhile, Loomer is. well, Loomer. The human version of a 3 a.m. Facebook comment thread.
When Politics Is Just Jealousy in a Cheap Wig
This incident isn’t an isolated moment of poor judgment. It’s a symptom of the right-wing influencer industrial complex. They don’t actually want to debate ideas. They want to go viral off the backs of women doing real work. Loomer wasn’t debating tax policy. She wasn’t asking about Mamdani’s platform. She was lashing out like a bitter ex who can’t stand to see their rival glow up.
It’s giving envious. It’s giving flop era. It’s giving Wi-Fi signal-wielding washed MAGA Barbie.
What Loomer can’t possibly understand and probably never will is that power isn’t measured in weight. AOC can walk into Congress wearing sweatpants and still be casting a shadow on Loomer with the weight of her policy influence and cultural influence.
So, while Loomer stays home playing keyboard warrior, AOC continues to build the future of American politics.
And that, Laura, is what hurts.
