Ted Cruz Tried To Roast Himself Over The Cancun Fiasco, And It Backfired In His Face

Ted Cruz is a master of self-owning without intending to do so, like when The Princess Bride superfan tried to feud with Cary Elwes and, well, lost. And like when he recently went on TV to discuss the CDC on masks, and his anti-mask shenanigans came back to bite him in the butt. And like when he decided that a devastating (and deadly) ice storm in Texas was a good time to fly to sun-drenched Cancun while his constituents literally froze. Well, it seems that Ted still doesn’t get it because he thought it was a good idea to show he had a sense of humor about the Cancun fiasco.

“Awesome!” Ted tweeted about a Houston ABC News affiliate’s story about how “[t]his airline can hook you up with a cheap flight to sunny Cancun or even Las Vegas!”

Let’s just say that Ted’s decision to roast himself or “joke” or whatever he was doing didn’t go as he’d planned, unless he planned for it to backfire in his face. That’s exactly what happened, especially when people reminded Ted that the ice storm not only stopped Texas in its tracks, but the death toll, including an 11-year-old boy who perished from hypothermia, reached at least 111 and possibly more.

https://twitter.com/seekupTx/status/1394810345135517701

https://twitter.com/larsp2740/status/1394710950595399685
https://twitter.com/NoahMF/status/1394710591625912320
https://twitter.com/brandyleah1/status/1394713067485683717

As of now, Ted hasn’t responded to the criticism, and if he follows his usual pattern of not speaking to his constituents on Twitter, his silence on the subject will stand.