Ted Cruz can’t help himself. He’s enormously online and won’t stop tweeting, to the point where he’s been busted ignoring his colleagues while tweeting during committee meetings. He also (and this still in the “allegedly” camp) may have once spent late-night time on Twitter while “liking” adult content and then blaming it on a “staffing issue.” Yet Cruz appears to be mostly running his own tweets and often spends the day taking digs at those who don’t share his political views.
He did so on Wednesday while firing a shot at Biden in the realm of international relations. Specifically, Cruz side-eyed Biden’s diplomatic approach to Putin (and Putin being “satisfied”), which is strange, considering that Cruz still backs Trump, and the whole Putin-Trump thing has proven to be enormously sketchy. Cruz also has no room to claim being an effective diplomat either, because when most people think about Cruz and another country, it involves his Cancun debacle or his recent decision to stand in a crumbling home in Israel on Memorial Day. Still, Cruz went there while making a juvenile Twitter joke (with a made-up headline) about how “Biden satisfies Putin.” Naturally, he added an eggplant emoji and, uh, a clown face while adding, “Maybe not the headline they were looking for.”
“Biden satisfies Putin.”
🍆🤡
Maybe not the headline they were looking for. 🤔 https://t.co/lFaqamXXAy
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) July 21, 2021
Naturally, Ted’s use of the eggplant took people’s minds to a place that Ted probably wasn’t “looking for,” either: back to that tweet that he (or someone on his staff) “liked.”
https://twitter.com/JoshNH4H/status/1417977389645279238
https://twitter.com/cameron_kasky/status/1417959225305731075
https://twitter.com/EyesOnTheRight/status/1417966666869260290
https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_/status/1418198994933714950
Did you mean to send this as a DM, Teddy pants? 👀
— Jo (@JoJoFromJerz) July 22, 2021
People also wondered why some politicians (and Cruz, a sitting senator, frequently falls into this camp) decide to behave like stereotypical teenagers.
A sitting United States Senator, ladies and gentlemen. It’s truly sad how damn far we have fallen.
— Ace Panda (@AcePanda83) July 22, 2021
Are you drunk? Why would you post this
— Rachael (@rabiiies) July 22, 2021
That’s not the headline. Also this tweet couldn’t be more unbecoming of a sitting senator
— CJagg (@HillCountree) July 21, 2021
I would say this is beneath you, but you’ve shown there is no bottom.
— Wendy🍄🌻 (@WWSWFBCS) July 22, 2021
https://twitter.com/ExtremelyBi01/status/1417943132235239435
Maybe it’s time to step away from the Twitter, Ted?
Dude, resign and delete your account. Holy Christ.
— Andrew—Author of America Rises On Substack—Wortman (@AmoneyResists) July 21, 2021