That's because Cruz's mutant X-Men power is his ability to say and do the completely wrong thing at the absolutely worst time in the most flippant way possible. Worst of all, this happens often when he attempts to make what he considers to be "jokes."
Cruz's latest attempt to be the best at being the worst Ted Cruz he can be landed on Twitter over the weekend. During a visit to Midland, he spotted a neon sign for a restaurant called the Cancun Grill, and because he has a cellphone and no ability to discern the difference between a self-effacing joke and trolling his constituents, you can guess what happened next.
Cruz posed for a photo with that big grin across his "What if Wolfman Jack couldn't grow facial hair?" face, raised his hand to draw attention to the sign and had someone take his picture.
He's also doing what comedians would call a "callback" but for the worst reason because, again, he's Ted Cruz.I’m in Midland, TX today, and guess what I found!#Cancun 🌴🌴 pic.twitter.com/mKEBy75xiU
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) May 19, 2023
Way back in the brutal winter of 2021, when Texas went through a devastating snowstorm that knocked out the state's neglected power grid, Cruz thought that would be the perfect time to take a tone-deaf vacation to Cancun. People in Texas and almost all the rest of the states found it in poor taste — to say the least — that a so-called enemy of the elite would book a trip to a tropical climate while many of his constituents had to spend an average of a week without power or adequate heating, among dozens of other problems that followed. The Texas Department of State Health Services later determined that the winter storm caused the deaths at least 246 people, and that's a low estimate.
When Cruz realized people would actually be upset that he'd leave the country during one of his state's most dire emergencies, he passed the buck to his own wife and kids. He said he flew back home and wasn't going to Cancun to stay. No, no, he was just dropping off his family, who wanted to go on vacation during the winter storm. Because when people ask you for a ride to the airport, they mean the airport at their international destination. Sorry, our travel etiquette is lacking.
The Cruz-iest part of his Cancun Grill tweet is that this isn't the first time he's tried to reference Cancun as a joke in that "Hey, remember this shitty thing I did?" kind of way. A month after the storm, while parts of the state still had trouble accessing drinkable water, he joked during his keynote speech at the Conservative Political Action Committee conference in Florida, "I gotta say, Orlando is awesome. It's not as nice as Cancun. But it's nice."
Why didn't Cruz just stay in Cancun?
