09-07-2025
Ted Cruz Missing Again During Texas Emergency
No, that isn't a 4-year-old headline.
If I may jog your memory, back in February 2021, Texas and other parts of the Central and Southern United States experienced a massive winter storm that knocked out power plants and left residents without heat or electricity for several days. Hundreds of people were killed.
As the state quite literally froze over and his constituents went without basic necessities, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and his family booked a flight to Cancún, Mexico, and stayed at the Ritz-Carlton. The New York Times reported that in a group text with friends and neighbors, Cruz's wife, Heidi, revealed she wanted to escape their "FREEZING" house.
Here he is at the Cancún airport to board a flight home:
Now, it's 2025, and the weather just keeps intensifying. Texas just experienced another devastating natural disaster with severe flooding over the Fourth of July weekend. And Ted Cruz home.
The Daily Beast reported that Cruz, who has served Texas in the US Senate since 2013, was sightseeing in Athens, Greece, when the flooding began. To be completely fair, he was already out of the country this time, but the outlet stated that he was still sightseeing with his wife a full day after 20 girls were reported missing from a summer camp in hard-hit Kerr County.
Over on r/politics, user OtmShanks55 posted an article from the New Republic about Cruz's absence, and people cut right to the jokes.
The original poster called Cruz a "banana slug" and said they thought the "headline was a joke."
Someone joked that this is the "Ted Cruz Weather Warning System" at work...
...and someone replied that with the way things are going, we might actually have to rely on that pretty soon.
Someone asked, "Is that guy always on vacation?" Others criticized his delay in returning home.
There were name puns.
Lots of them.
This person cut him a LITTLE slack, but wondered why Cruz would be out of town for the Fourth of July in the first place.
And finally, most people just have one little word to say:
What do you think? Sound off in the comments.
