A bizarre ‘choose your fighter’ video of female House Democrats has gone viral after conservatives on social media ripped it apart for being ‘cringe.’
The video was put together by influencer Sulhee Jessica Woo, who was invited to Washington this week to be on hand for President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress.
Woo, known online as the ‘Bento Box Queen,’ first posted video of herself in the boxer pose outside the Capitol Building – and had Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Lauren Underwood, Katherine Clark, Judy Chu, Jasmine Crockett and Susie Lee follow suit.
The video was labeled ‘choose your fighter’ and included positives and negatives for each woman, including that AOC was a ‘trekkie’ and Crockett was ‘not a morning person.’
The cutesy video cued groans from conservatives.
‘We’re never going to lose again – are we?’ mused YouTuber Benny Johnson, who had grabbed the video from Karli Bonne’s X account, who had commented ‘…Meanwhile the cringe continues.’
CNN’s Jake Tapper also chimed in. ‘The best part about this is presumably this is precisely to reassure their voters that they’ve figured out how to be an effective opposition party,’ Tapper posted to X.
By Thursday evening the @WhiteHouse’s official X account got involved.
‘America chose its fighters last November,’ a video said, depicting Trump, first lady Melania Trump and members of the Cabinet including Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and FBI Director Kash Patel.
Crockett acknowledged to DailyMail.com on Thursday that Democrats are trying to figure out how show that they’re ‘real people.’
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (left) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (right) were among the House Democratic women who appeared in influencer Sulhee Jessica Woo’s ‘Choose Your Fighter’ video, which prompted groans and eyerolls from conservatives online
The viral ‘Choose Your Fighter’ video was created by influencer Sulhee Jessica Woo (right), who goes by Bento Box Queen online. Woo was visiting Washington to take in President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress
‘I think that there are those that consistently say the Democrats are elitist and things like that,’ she said on Capitol Hill. ‘They look at us almost as robots, as if we don’t have personalities.’
‘But I do think that the caucus as a whole is trying to figure out, how do we show people that we are real people, right?’ she added.
Crockett said she’s personally had an easier go at this because ‘I’ve never really turned on the politician side.’
‘And so I’ve consistenly been able to go on podcasts and look like I was very natural, because I was very natural,’ Crockett said.
The Missouri Democrat made waves last May when she got in a shouting match with GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, calling her a ‘bleach blonde, bad built, butch body’ after Greene mocked Crockett’s ‘fake eyelashes.’
More recently she told Elon Musk to ‘f*** off’ in a viral video.
‘But I think that a lot of us are trying to figure out, how can we let people know that we’re not just elected people, but we are real people who have real families and real children, and we have the same concerns that you do?’ Crockett continued.
‘And honestly, can we have a little fun?’ the Democratic lawmaker added. ‘I didn’t like the jumping, I’m gonna be honest. I didn’t like the jumping. … My dancing was good, though, my dancing, I didn’t get no shade on my dancing.’
Rep. Judy Chu was among the female House Democrats who participated in the now-viral video. Conservative influencers branded it ‘cringe’ with one asking: ‘We’re never going to lose again – are we?’
The Democratic identity crisis was especially on display this week after some of their antics during Trump’s speech to Congress were criticized, even by members of their own party.
Former Biden White House official turned MSNBC host Symone Sanders voiced her frustrations during the speech, as Democratic lawmakers held up black signs critical of Musk and some Trump policies.
‘Why are democrats just sitting there? The signs are not landing. It is giving bingo! Sigh,’ she wrote.
Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman agreed with Sanders’ take.
‘A sad cavalcade of self owns and unhinged petulance,’ Fetterman commented. ‘It only makes Trump look more presidential and restrained.’
‘We’re becoming the metaphorical car alarms that nobody pays attention to – and it may not be the winning message,’ the Pennsylvania senator added.
Fresh polling also found that just 10 percent of Americans believed Democrats had a ‘good strategy to respond to Trump and it’s working.’