Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) made history on Thursday when she became the youngest-ever member of Congress. But trolls on the internet have tried to take the honor away from her.
As she was being sworn in on Thursday, a video of the representative dancing Breakfast Club style on a rooftop with friends in college leaked on a bunch of conservative Twitter accounts. While the video attempts to shame and bash Ocasio-Cortez’s character, it instead backfired and went viral.
According to the Huffington Post, the video was made when Ocasio-Cortez was a student at Boston University in 2010. It depicts her and several other Boston University students recreating the iconic dance scene from The Breakfast Club. According to Bustle, the dance was a popular internet meme at the time and other people created similar videos. The tweets attached to the video read, “Here is America’s favorite commie know-it-all