Texas councilman Scott Dunn apologizes after he was slammed on social media for calling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a 'bimbo'
A city council member from Texas has apologized after he caused a social media firestorm by calling New York representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a "bimbo" on Twitter. Richardson City Councilman Scott Dunn had responded to a tweet from the candid freshman congresswoman by writing: "The embarrassment is to have bimbos like you with nothing between your ears."
The post received heavy criticism shortly after that and the uproar caused Dunn to finally delete his Twitter account, reports the Daily Mail. This was, however, after his rude comment went viral when users took screenshots of it.
The Dallas Morning News reported that the tweet had been in "defense of the president" and his State of the Union address earlier in the week but it is still not known which specific tweet Dunn was responding to because the post was deleted. Ocasio-Cortez, who is the youngest woman to have ever been elected to Congress, has since become a veritable lightning rod for the public because of her strong criticism of the Republican Party and her own socialist platform. She is yet to respond to Dunn's remarks.