Quotes by Senator Ted Cruz on Donald Trump
#TedCruz 3/25/16: "Trump’s consistently disgraceful behavior is beneath the office ❲of President❳." » #Cruz 4/19/18: "❲That Trump has❳ distressed members of the…establishment is not a bug but a feature." Click To Tweet
Quotes by Senator Ted Cruz on Donald Trump
THEN
2016

- Feb 3, 2016
Business Insider, Feb 3, 2016
'Trump-er tantrum': Ted Cruz suggests Donald Trump is so unstable that he'd 'nuke Denmark'
- Feb 3, 2016
NBC News, Feb 3, 2016
Ted Cruz: Donald Is Throwing a ‘Trumpertantrum’
- March 22, 2016
Pic of your wife not from us. Donald, if you try to attack Heidi, you're more of a coward than I thought. #classless https://t.co/0QpKSnjgnE
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 23, 2016
- March 23, 2016
Donald, real men don't attack women. Your wife is lovely, and Heidi is the love of my life. https://t.co/pprXhIMzUT
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 24, 2016
“Our spouses and our children are off-bounds. It is not acceptable for a big, loud New York bully to attack my wife… When he gets scared, he lashes out. And he insults and attacks whoever is standing near him… Donald does seem to have an issue with women… Donald doesn’t like strong women. Strong women scare Donald. Real men don’t try to bully women. That’s not an action of strength. That’s an action of weakness. That’s an action of fear. That’s an action of a small and petty man who is intimidated by strong women. Real men don’t do that.”
- March 24, 2016
CBS News, March 24, 2016
Cruz calls Trump 'sniveling coward' and says 'leave Heidi the hell alone'
- March 25, 2016
Donald Trump’s consistently disgraceful behavior is beneath the office we are seeking and we are not going to follow https://t.co/BG9IHd1Oqg
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 25, 2016
- March 25, 2016
Facebook, March 25, 2016
Facebook Post
- March 29, 2016
Nominating Donald Trump would be a train wreck. It would be handing the White House over to Hillary Clinton. #GOPTownHall
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 30, 2016
“I’m going to tell you what I really think of Donald Trump. This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies with practically every word that comes out of his mouth. And in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology textbook, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. He accuses everybody on that debate stage of lying. And it’s simply a mindless yell. Whatever he does, he accuses everyone else of doing. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist. A narcissist at a level I don’t think this country has ever seen.
“Donald Trump is such a narcissist that Barack Obama looks at him and goes, ‘Dude, what’s your problem?’ Everything in Donald’s world is about Donald. And he combines being a pathological liar, and I say pathological because I actually think Donald, if you hooked him up to a lie detector test, he could say one thing in the morning, one thing at noon and one thing in the evening, all contradictory and he’s pass the lie detector test each time. Whatever lie he’s telling, at that minute he believes it. But the man is utterly amoral…
“The man is utterly amoral. Morality does not exist for him. It’s why he went after Heidi directly and smeared my wife, attacked her. Apparently she’s not pretty enough for Donald Trump. I may be biased, but I think if he’s making that allegation, he’s also legally blind.
“But Donald is a bully. You know, we just visited with fifth-graders. Every one of us knew bullies in elementary school. Bullies don’t come from strength, bullies come from weakness. Bullies come from a deep, yawning cavern of insecurity. There is a reason Donald builds giant buildings and puts his name on them everywhere he goes.
“And I will say there are millions of people in this country who are angry. They’re angry at Washington, they’re angry at politicians who have lied to them. I understand that anger. I share that anger. And Donald is cynically exploiting that anger, and he is lying to his supporters. Donald will betray his supporters on every issue.
“If you care about immigration, Donald is laughing at you. And he’s telling the moneyed elites he doesn’t believe what he’s saying. He’s not going to build a wall. That’s what he told The New York Times. He will betray you on every you issue across the board. And his strategy of being a bully in particular is directed at women. Donald has a real problem with women. People who are insecure, people who are insecure about who they are – Donald is terrified by strong women. He lashes out at them…
“The president of the United States has a bully pulpit unlike anybody else. The president of the United States affects our culture. I ask the people of Indiana, think about the next five years if this man were to become president. Think about the next five years, the boasting, the pathological lying, the picking up ‘The National Enquirer’ and accusing people of killing JFK, the bullying. Think about your kids coming back and emulating this.
“For people in Indiana who long for a day when we were nice to each other, when we treated people with respect, when we didn’t engage in sleaze and lies – and I would note one of the lies he engages in, listen, Donald Trump is a serial philanderer, and he boasts about it. This is not a secret. He’s proud of being a serial philanderer.
“I want everyone to think about your teenage kids. The president of the United States talks about how great it is to commit adultery, and how proud he is, describes his battles with venereal disease as his own personal Vietnam. That’s a quote, by the way, on the Howard Stern show.
“Do you want to spend the next five years with your kids bragging about infidelity? Now, what does he do? He does the same projection. Just like a pathological liar, he accuses everyone of lying. Even though he boasts about his infidelity, he plants in David Pecker‘s ‘National Enquirer’ a lie about me and my family, attacking my family. He accuses others of doing what he is doing. I will tell you, as the father of two young girls, the idea of our daughters coming home and repeating any word that man says horrifies me.
“That is not who America is. And I would say to the Hoosier State, the entire country’s depending on you. The entire country is looking to you right now. It is only Indiana that can pull us back. It is only the good sense and good judgment of Indiana that can pull us back. We are staring at the abyss.”
- May 3, 2016
CNN, May 3, 2016
Transcript: Cruz Rants Against Trump; Indiana Votes.
- July 21, 2016
Business Insider, July 21, 2016
Ted Cruz defends RNC speech in epic tirade: I won't back Trump 'like a servile puppy dog'
#TedCruz 5/3/16: "Donald ❲Trump❳ is a bully… Bullies don’t come from strength, bullies come from weakness." » #Cruz 4/19/18: "Trump’s strong stand against North Korea put Kim Jong-un back on his heels." Click To Tweet
NOW
2018

“The same cultural safe spaces that blinkered coastal elites to candidate Trump’s popularity have rendered them blind to President Trump’s achievements on behalf of ordinary Americans. While pundits obsessed over tweets, he worked with Congress to cut taxes for struggling families. While wealthy celebrities announced that they would flee the country, he fought to bring back jobs and industries to our shores. While talking heads predicted Armageddon, President Trump’s strong stand against North Korea put Kim Jong Un back on his heels.
“President Trump is doing what he was elected to do: disrupt the status quo. That scares the heck out of those who have controlled Washington for decades, but for millions of Americans, their confusion is great fun to watch.”
April 19, 2018 -
Time, April 19, 2018
Donald Trump by Ted Cruz
Oct 22, 2018 -
Ted Cruz Senate race campaign rally in Houston, which Trump attended to support Cruz.
NPR, Oct 22, 2018
From 'Lyin' Ted' To 'Beautiful': How Trump And Cruz Found Political Love
#TedCruz 5/3/16: "❲Donald Trump’s behavior is❳ not who America is…We are staring at the abyss." » #Cruz 4/19/18: "Talking heads predicted Armageddon ❲if Trump became President❳." Click To Tweet
Context
Ted Cruz called Donald Trump a “snivelling coward” after Trump repeatedly branded Cruz as a liar and attacked and insulted his wife:
Lyin' Ted Cruz just used a picture of Melania from a G.Q. shoot in his ad. Be careful, Lyin' Ted, or I will spill the beans on your wife!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 23, 2016
Lyin' Ted Cruz denied that he had anything to do with the G.Q. model photo post of Melania. That's why we call him Lyin' Ted!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 23, 2016
"@Don_Vito_08: "A picture is worth a thousand words" @realDonaldTrump #LyingTed #NeverCruz @MELANIATRUMP pic.twitter.com/5bvVEwMVF8"
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 24, 2016
Cruz’s extended, May 2016 blistering condemnation of Trump came hours after Trump called Cruz’s father “disgraceful” and implied that his father may have been involved in John F. Kennedy’s assassination.1CNN, May 3, 2016
Cruz unloads with epic takedown of ‘pathological liar,’ ‘narcissist’ Donald Trump
retrieved 10/14/18
Trump in response said “Lyin’ Ted Cruz really went wacko today. Made all sorts of crazy charges. Can’t function under pressure – not very presidential.” Donald Trump Jr. characterized Cruz’s attack as “an impressive meltdown… Desperate but impressive. Reminded me of my 3 year old coming off a sugar high.”
Wow, Lyin' Ted Cruz really went wacko today. Made all sorts of crazy charges. Can't function under pressure – not very presidential. Sad!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 3, 2016
That was an impressive meltdown… Desperate but impressive. Reminded me of my 3 year old coming off a sugar high. https://t.co/3lqwHIRWo6
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) May 3, 2016