On Monday night, Jimmy Kimmel gleefully took aim at one of his favorite targets, Ted Cruz, the Republican senator from Texas who bent the knee to Donald Trump after he accused Cruzâs father of killing JFK and called his wife ugly.
You see, Cruz, who also helped spread the Big Lie that led to the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection and tried to escape to the Four Seasons in Cancun when his home state was in the midst of a deadly weather crisis, has been angry-tweeting at the Sesame Street character Big Bird for tweeting that heâd been vaccinated.
âSpeaking of blowhards picking fights, have you been following the Twitter feud between Ted Cruz and Big Bird?â asked Kimmel.
âAfter the FDA approved the vaccine for children ages 5 to 11, Big Bird tweeted, âI got the COVID-19 vaccine today!ââyou know, Big Bird is, like, a 6-year-oldââMy wing is feeling a little sore, but itâll give my body an extra protective boost that keeps me and others healthy,ââ the host explained. âAnd Ted Cruz, who desperately just wants to be noticed, lashed out. He wrote, âGovernment propaganda⌠for your 5-year-old!ââ
Yes, Ted Cruz, who is 50 years old, got all performatively worked up over a tweet from a kidsâ show puppet.
âThis is how they think: If the government says it, itâs propaganda. If Congress does it, itâs socialism. If the executive branch does it, itâs fascism. If the president says it, heâs a dictator. And if the media says it, itâs fake news. The elections are rigged. The deep state runs the world. And Big Bird is working for Merck now,â cracked Kimmel.
And then, the kicker: âItâs interesting because not only is Ted Cruz vaccinated himself, Ted Cruz was born with an immunity that protects him from contracting any friends. But the truth is, I think maybe Tedâs still sore about Big Birdâs most recent book: Big Bird Visits Cancun to Find Ted Cruzâs Balls. Spoiler alert: He never finds them.â
