His comments went over her head. Update to this story.
Via Daily Wire:
U.S. Ambassador To Germany Richard Grenell slammed Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Monday after she compared Nazi Germany to global warming in a recent speech.
Grenell’s comments on Fox News’ “FOX & Friends” came after Ocasio-Cortez said at a campaign event on Friday that the blueprint the United States used to defeat Nazi Germany is the same blueprint that needs to be used to defeat global warming.
“It’s never okay, it’s never acceptable to minimize the Holocaust and the murder of six million Jews,” Grenell said. “Just note to anyone who is speaking publicly — never compare it to anything because nothing can be as horrific as 11 million people, six million Jews murdered.”
Grenell has a strong record of fighting against Nazism as he played a key role in the Trump administration’s deportation of “95-year-old Jakiw Palij — the last known Nazi collaborator living in the United States — at his home in Queens, New York,” over the summer.[…]
The 28-year-old socialist, who is the Democratic nominee for New York’s 14th Congressional District, made national headlines in July after she referred to Israel as the “occupiers” of Palestine in an embarrassing PBS interview that went viral; she later admitted: “I am not the expert on geo-politics on this issue”