Whoopi Goldberg tells Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez she stopped supporting her when Freshman ‘dismissed’ older Dems

THE View host Whoopi Goldberg told freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez she “lost” her support by seemingly dismissing older people who she felt “didn’t do enough.”

Goldberg, 64, told Ocasio-Cortez, who turned 30 in October, said on Wednesday it’s “bothered” her that younger politicians seem to shoot down older women like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.

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Whoopi Goldberg told Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez it ‘bothered the hell’ out of her to hear the freshman rep seemingly dismiss older Democrats[/caption]

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AOC said it’s not that older and younger Democrats are divided, but rather ‘disconnected’[/caption]

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AOC appeared on The View on Wednesday morning[/caption]

She said the two were the “only chicks in the room for years” and had to deal with plenty of problems.

“I feel like, I love young people, I was one once, but you’re on my shoulders,” Goldberg said. “We have carried this fight.”

“I’ve been upset about it for a long time,” she said, getting confirmation from co-host Meghan McCain, who acknowledged Goldberg has felt this way.

“To sort of hear it sound like you were dismissing us bothered the hell out of me.”

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 79, and AOC, 30, had clear tensions last year[/caption]

Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign for U.S. Congress was seen as a “shake up” to the status quo when she beat 20-year incumbent, 57-year-old Rep. Joe Crowley, D-N.Y., in an upset victory in 2018.

Referencing an idea from her “sister,” Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Ocasio-Cortez said: “We’re not divided, we are disconnected.”

“The way that we connect is by sharing honestly our takes with each other,” and told the hosts, “I think there’s a lot of incentive to blow up disagreements in the party as like, huge fights.”

Last year, it was clear there was tension between Pelosi, 79, and Ocasio-Cortez.

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AOC pictured in New York City ahead of her appearance on The View[/caption]

Pelosi in July warned House Democrats about the big divisions between centrist members, like her, and more liberal members, like Ocasio-Cortez and her “squad” ahead of the 2020 election.

She said during the closed-door meeting that without unity, “we are playing completely into the hands of the other people.”

“We’re a family and we have our moments. You got a complaint? You come and talk to me about it. But do not tweet about our members and expect us to think that that is just OK.”

Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff at the time compared more moderate Democrats to 1940s segregationists.

Then, AOC accused Pelosi of “singling out” her and fellow “squad” newcomers, all women of color.

But later that month, Pelosi denied there was ever “any hatchet” to bury with Ocasio-Cortez and praised the 30-year-old as “gracious,” calling anything that happened between the two “family differences.”

On Wednesday, Ocasio-Cortez dispelled any ideas of bad blood when she called Pelosi the “mama bear” of the Democratic Party.

She also praised older members of the Democratic Party, “women like Barbara Lee, Jan Schakowsky, Maxine Waters and my chairman Elijah Cummins, may he rest in peace and in power.”

“Part of I think youth and culture has always been seen and cast as rebellious, but ultimately we are not a movement that is disconnected from our past.”

Ocasio-Cortez added, “We are part of the long movement of ancestors and elders that we should always acknowledge.”

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