Brett Cooper says AOC's egg freezing and split from fiancé are calculated political moves ahead of a potential presidential run.
- August 13, 2026
AceShowbiz - Brett Cooper is doubling down on her claim that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's public decision to freeze her eggs isn't about family planning—it's a calculated rebrand ahead of a future run for president. Days after Cooper made the remarks on her show, news broke that Ocasio-Cortez and her fiancé, Riley Roberts, had split after 15 years together, a breakup Cooper says she predicted.
"I don't think that this public egg-freezing journey is really about them wanting to have kids. It is a political strategy," Cooper said on the latest episode of The Brett Cooper Show. "She's using this so she can move to the middle and connect with voters in her base."
According to Cooper, Ocasio-Cortez's advisers have identified a problem with her current image. "A rabid, childless, pro-abortion activist might not really resonate with a lot of normal Americans. So what is the solution? She needs to move a little bit more to the middle. She needs to be relatable, a little bit more normal, like a normal woman. So she decides to publicly go through egg freezing, and probably eventually go through IVF, and she's documenting all of it on Instagram."
The split between Ocasio-Cortez and Roberts was confirmed yesterday, and Cooper had already told her audience it was coming, arguing on the same episode that Roberts didn't fit the image Ocasio-Cortez needed for a national run. "She wasn't positive that an intercultural, interracial relationship would be the right fit for her. Was this the right relationship for her, or was it maybe not the right relationship for her brand? Would it have been better for her brand if she had been a lesbian and had a Black wife? Considering that she spent the last decade telling us all that straight white men were the devil, that they were Nazis, that they were toxically masculine…She has the whitest man imaginable. He's a freaking ginger. And she's saying, 'After 11 years, I don't really know if I want to marry somebody that's white.' Oh my god, this man needs to leave her."
Cooper also flagged the unusual timing of the couple's decisions, noting they've been together for 15 years without tying the knot. "They're not married yet. They've been together 15 years, and they're still hemming and hawing about when and how to have children. There was a much simpler way to go about this: Maybe you have the kids when you're a junior congresswoman, before you're thinking about running for president."
The conservative commentator believes this is just the beginning of Ocasio-Cortez's political evolution. "It is only a matter of time until AOC runs for president. I don't know if it's going to be in 2028 or four years after that or four years after that, but in our lifetime, AOC will be running... Crazy cat ladies don't become president. But a woman who pushed off having kids so that she could fight for America? Yeah, that might be crazy enough to work."
Ocasio-Cortez, a progressive Democrat from New York, has long been speculated as a potential future presidential candidate, though she has not confirmed any such plans. Her public profile and policy positions have made her a polarizing figure, and Cooper's remarks add another layer to the ongoing debate about her political future.
As the story continues to develop, all eyes will be on Ocasio-Cortez to see if Cooper's predictions come to fruition. For now, the split and the egg-freezing announcement have sparked widespread discussion, with Cooper's commentary fueling further speculation.