A year since his aborted family getaway to Cancún during a deadly mass blackout in Texas, Sen. Ted Cruz is trying to preempt late night comics by poking...
Sen. Ted Cruz embraced that philosophy when he posted creepy Zodiac codes on Halloween to signal he was in on the meme linking him to serial murders that ended when he was a toddler.
Now, almost a year since his aborted family getaway to Cancún during a deadly mass blackout in Texas, he’s employing the same tactic to ease the sting as late-night comics sharpen their barbs. On Wednesday, he posted a Tweet complaining that “inflation is out of control.” Prices are up on gas, food and lumber “and tickets to Cancún are up 32%!”Saturday Night Live regularly lampoons him, and the show invoked his Mexican getaway as recently as Jan.