Trevor Noah responded to news that Ted Cruz traveled to Mexico amid a weather crisis in his state of Texas with a biting video highlighting the senator’s past criticism of other politicians.
The clip was shared on Thursday from the Twitter account for The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, the programme he hosts on Comedy Central.
“.@tedcruz welcome back to the US, found these while you were gone,” reads the accompanying tweet.
The one-minute clip consists in a montage of past interviews in which Cruz criticised other political leaders for taking vacations, playing golf, or being otherwise disconnected from the people they represented.
“It’s crazy that we’d be taking a recess,” Cruz says in one of the archive clips, which comes from a 2017 Fox News interview conducted when Republican lawmakers were pushing to repeal and replace ObamaCare. “Let’s not take any recesses. Let’s work every day. Let’s work weekends. Let’s work until we get the job done.”
Another Fox News segment features Cruz criticising “President Obama, Hillary Clinton and the Democratic party” for being “so out of touch with where the American people are right now.”
The video also includes an excerpt from a 2014 interview in which Cruz told Megyn Kelly of Barack Obama: “He goes and plays golf hundreds of times with his buddies. He’s not focused on the people who are hurting.”
Cruz faced widespread criticism after news emerged of his trip to Mexico on Thursday, with some calling for his resignation.
On Thursday, the fourth day of extreme weather, more than 300,000 people remained without power in Texas according to poweroutage.us, a website that tracks power outages across the US. Millions were previously affected. Many have struggled to access food and clean water.
