(CNN) Nancy Pelosi didn't get to where she is without learning how to troll with the best of them. And in an interview with USA Today released Monday, the speaker of the House again turns her gaze to the most famous/infamous freshman House member in recent memory: New York's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Asked about the difficulties of governing a caucus in the House that is being challenged at every turn by AOC and others like her -- liberals elected in the past few cycles who are deeply skeptical of the party establishment -- Pelosi said this: "While there are people who have a large number of Twitter followers, what's important is that we have large numbers of votes on the floor of the House."

Now, Pelosi didn't mention AOC by name. But you'd have to be a real dummy to not understand who she was talking about. Ocasio-Cortez has 3.9 million Twitter followers , by far the most of any House member -- including Pelosi ( 2.4 million followers ). And AOC is an active Twitter user -- often employing the social media site to call out what she believes to be unfairness within the Democratic Party or to push back on media stories about her.

Pelosi's not-so-subtle shot at AOC isn't an isolated event either. In February, she was asked about the "Green New Deal," a sweeping legislative proposal that Ocasio-Cortez has been closely aligned with that aims to address the challenges of climate change. "It will be one of several or maybe many suggestions that we receive," Pelosi said dismissively. "The green dream, or whatever they call it, nobody knows what it is, but they're for it, right?"

Yeaaaaaah.

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