Ted Cruz opens CPAC speech saying ‘Orlando isn’t as nice as Cancun’ as he mocks fury over trip & slams cancel culture
TED Cruz opened his CPAC speech by saying “Orlando isn’t as nice as Cancun” as he mocked the fury over his trip in a speech blasting cancel culture. “I gotta say, Orlando is awesome. It’s not as nice as Cancun. But it’s nice,” Cruz said on Friday morning. He was speaking to fans at the […]
TED Cruz opened his CPAC speech by saying “Orlando isn’t as nice as Cancun” as he mocked the fury over his trip in a speech blasting cancel culture.
“I gotta say, Orlando is awesome. It’s not as nice as Cancun. But it’s nice,” Cruz said on Friday morning.
He was speaking to fans at the Conservative Political Action Conference when he made the controversial comments.
Cruz and his family came under fire after they stayed at the $300-a-night Ritz Carlton resort in Cancun, Mexico, while Texas was under extreme weather conditions.
The senator vacationed with his wife Heidi, 48, and their daughters, Catherine, 12, and Caroline, 10.
After dashing to the luxury resort, Cruz landed back in Texas on Thursday and had a police escort at the airport.
Protesters held signs stating “24 dead” from the winter storm – a number that significantly rose after.
Speaking to reporters outside his house, Cruz admitted he made a mistake and insisted he was “just trying to be a dad.”
“It was obviously a mistake and in hindsight I wouldn’t have done it,” Cruz said.
On Saturday, Cruz was mocked for posting several photos of himself on Twitter delivering water to residents with the hashtag #TexasStrong.
In three images, Cruz is pictured loading packs of water into people’s cars, however it is not known exactly where and when the photographs were taken.
But social media users called his bluff and described Cruz’s move as “an embarrassment”.
“GTFOH. This guy Ted Cruz is an embarrassment to Texas and anyone with a brain. He must really think his constituents are dumb as hell,” tweeted Bruno Amato, who is running for Congress in 2022.
Meanwhile furious parents at St John’s school in Houston have demanded the senator’s girls should quarantine when they return from Mexico – leaving them unable to study as they cannot learn online in isolation.
During Cruz’s CPAC speech, he also took the opportunity to lash out at the media.
“The media desperately, desperately wants a Republican civil war,” he said.
“Liberty is under assault and what are we going to do? I will tell you: We will fight!”
People in the crowd then started chanting “freedom” and cheered Cruz on.
He also mentioned close ally Trump, saying: “Let me tell you this right now, Donald J Trump ain’t going anywhere.”
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Trump is set to make his first post-presidential appearance at the conservative gathering this weekend.
Ian Walters, spokesman for the American Conservative Union, confirmed that Trump will be speaking at the group’s annual Conservative Political Action Conference on Sunday.
Trump is expected to talk about the future of the Republican Party, as well as to criticize President Biden’s efforts to undo his immigration policies, according to a person who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the plans.