Freshman congresswoman Alexandria Ocasion-Cortez compared President Donald Trump's long-promised border wall to the Berlin Wall during a livestream for her supporters on Friday, complaining about the level of public scrutiny her celebrity has generated.

'No matter how you feel about the wall, I think it’s a moral abomination,' the 29-year-old New York Democrat said. 'I think it’s like the Berlin Wall.'

The Berlin Wall stood from 1961 to 1989 as a Soviet-manded barrier between East and West Berlin, and came to symbolize the Cold War 'Iron Curtain' that separated communist Eastern European countries from the democratic West.

Its purpose was to keep people in East Berlin, the city's communist sector, from fleeing to West Berlin.

Freshman New York Democratic congresswoman alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Friday compared Preisdent Donald Trump's proposed border wall expansion to the Berlin Wall and called it 'a moral abomination'

East German military guards looked on in 1989 as the Berlin Wall came down after 28 years of separating the communist Soviet bloc from the democratic West

President Donald Trum intends to spend $8 million to extend a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico in order to stop illegal immigrants, drug smugglers and human traffickers

President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he will spend nearly $8 billion to extend hundreds of miles of physical walls and fences along the U.S.-Mexico border. The White House says its purpose is to keep illegal immigrants, human traffickers and narcotics smugglers out of the United States.

Ocasio-Cortez describes herself as a democratic socialist.

In another segment of her Friday livestream, which appeared Monday on several conservative websites, she said her newfound fame as a socialist standard-bearer can be uncomfortable.

'Here in DC it’s like, so weird,' she said. 'It's like everybody is like, a spy. Like, it’s so bizarre.'

'It's like – you could go out to get a coffee and the person that's, like, sitting at a table in the corner of the restaurant is like, you know, like –'

A watchtower looked over the Berlin Wall at Checkpoint Charlie, now part of a musuem at the formerly heavily guarded East-West crossing in Berlin

West Berliners crowded in front of the Berlin Wall on November 11, 1989 as they watched East German border guards demolishing a section of the wall

Ocasio-Cortez, 29, also complained about the level of public attention she gets on the streets of Washington, D.C.

Wearing a plain gray sweatshirt, eyeglasses and a smartwatch, Ocasio-Cortez drew her arms close to her chest to mimic someone secretly typing.

'Then they go and, like, they text all of their friends that they saw so-and-so at this cafe and it's like, triangulation.

And it’s super weird,' she added. 'It's just, like, super weird.'

She compared her political fame wandering Capitol Hill or Washington's intimate Navy Yard neighborhood to the scale of New York City, saying it's harder to blend in with the D.C. crowd.

'New York is really interesting,' she said, 'because there's a lot of anonymity out in public.'

The videos of Ocasio-Cortez first appeared on her public livestream and then surfaced on a Twitter account linked to The Daily Wire, a conservative website.

The site posted apartial transcript in which she justifies the Berlin Wall comparison by saying Trump's project is 'like any other wall that is designed to separate human beings and block out people who are running away from humanitarian disaster. It's like – one of the – I just think it's wrong.'

'Seventy per cent of America thinks this is the dumbest idea ever,' she claimed, 'and it's not my problem that the majority of the American public thinks it's a scam, a sham, a monument to white supremacy. It's not my fault.'