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The congresswoman said that the U.S. president is looking to command the western world ‘as his personal sandbox’

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US congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has said that President Donald Trump’s administration is “tearing apart the transatlantic partnership” as its relationship with Europe remains strained.

The New York Democrat, who is a potential 2028 presidential candidate, told the Munich Security Conference: “President Trump has withdrawn from and is looking to withdraw the US from the entire world and turn into an age of authoritarianism to carve out a world where Donald Trump can command the western world and Latin America as his personal sandbox."

Speaking alongside other world leaders, including Czech president Petr Pavel, Ms Ocasio-Cortez called for a return to “rules-based order” and to address hypocrises.

She said: “I think this is a moment where we are seeing our presidential administration tear apart the transatlantic partnership, rip up every democratic norm, and … really calling into question, as was mentioned by Mark Carney at the World Economic Forum, the rules based order that we have, or, question mark, do we have?

“But that does not mean that the majority of Americans are ready to walk away from a rules-based order and that we’re ready to walk away from our commitment to democracy.

“I think what we identify is that in a rules-based order, hypocrisy is vulnerability.”