Riley Gaines fires back at 'self-absorbed, misogynistic socialist' AOC over transgender sports stance

'OutKick' host Riley Gaines joined 'Fox & Friends' to discuss her public feud with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, virtue-signaling from the far-left and an upcoming TPUSA event with Erika Kirk and Vice President JD Vance. 

Riley Gaines clapped back at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., in the latest edition of her OutKick podcast, "Gaines for Girls," after their recent social media feud.

The two went back and forth in a spat that stemmed from AOC saying if Gaines had put "all this anger into swimming faster [she] wouldn't have come in fifth place" in the 2022 NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships.

Gaines mentioned that she is in the "roughly 2%" of people who competed in Division I athletics and that "there are only eight women … who make the final and are All-Americans in their event." The person she tied with was Lia Thomas, a transgender swimmer who won the national title in the 400-meter freestyle the day prior.

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Riley Gaines and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., sparred on social media on Oct. 27, 2025. (IMAGN/Getty Images)

"If they think fifth place is bad, what in the world do they think about 462nd? Because that's what Will Thomas placed amongst the men just 12 months prior," Gaines responded, calling Thomas by the former UPenn swimmer's birth name.

"This comment is just so snide. It's basically that same tired idea we've heard from the Democratic Party and those who support men stealing our opportunities and our spots on the podium over and over and over again, that women aren't allowed to be angry when we're screwed over, and if we are, then there's something wrong with us as women, as female athletes," Gaines continued. "And also, this