WARNING: This post contains images of semi-nude people from a screengrab of Ted Cruz’s twitter account below.
In a two year span of political theater that has already seen a wealth of surreal moments, Ted Cruz has possibly given us the most surreal moment yet. On Monday night someone noticed that the official Twitter account for Ted Cruz had liked a post that you wouldn’t expect to find on the Texas senator’s page any time soon. If it is still available, the top like was from the account “Sexuall Posts” and featured a scene from Reality Kings where a mother enters a room to stumble upon a young couple having furious sex on a couch, leading to her pleasuring herself. It’s a scene that has likely played out on many computer screens over the years, but the “luxury” of Twitter allows us to peek and see what are others are up to, including our elected officials. A final warning for the semi-nude image below:
The image above is genuine and appears on Ted Cruz’s official likes page, right next to where he calls himself “a fighter for liberty.”
While it could be the most normal thing Ted Cruz has publicly done in the past few years, far more than cooking bacon on the barrel of an assault rifle, it’s still not the best look for one of the faces of the GOP. The reactions have pointed this out:
Ted Cruz’s LIKES are LIT AF right now pic.twitter.com/77bCK7AQ2v
— Busted Coverage (@bustedcoverage) September 12, 2017
https://twitter.com/phillyd/status/907463613488578561
https://twitter.com/lolacoaster/status/907467458818088960
https://twitter.com/tvietor08/status/907469391976996865
wow ted cruz needs to chill pic.twitter.com/VqW3SCL2dU
— eric curtin (@dubstep4dads) September 12, 2017
https://twitter.com/pattymo/status/907471362905788416
https://twitter.com/fart/status/907472117502844928
https://twitter.com/jonfavs/status/907467146959245312
9/11 2016: hillary fainted and peter daou coined the phrase "outdoor summer hoops"
9/11 2017: ted cruz honked it to a tweet— sam (@gutterburger) September 12, 2017
Even Cruz’s old college roommate Craig Mazin got in on the act, semi-confirming that this is far the first time the senator has been caught in such a situation:
https://twitter.com/clmazin/status/720259227067920385
https://twitter.com/clmazin/status/907470879851819008
The anticipation for whatever defense is mounted to this like seems to be fairly high, with most ready to hear that either Cruz was hacked in some manner, his intern made a mistake, or a mixture of both somehow.
Ted Cruz's press secretary is going to have a quite a surprise when they wake up tomorrow
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) September 12, 2017
No matter what happens next, this moment has been screenshotted and shared enough that most will remember it for weeks to come or at least until Donald Trump manages to steal the spotlight away.
UPDATE: Just as quickly as the like appeared on the scene, it has faded into the wind. We will always have the memories:
https://twitter.com/natemcdermott/status/907474915703623681
UPDATE #2: On Tuesday Cruz blamed the issue on “staffing issues” and said the liked porn tweet was a “mistake.”