“Saturday Night Live” directed Ted Cruz about his now-infamous trip to Cancun during the “Weekend Update” segment.
The show previously hurried the situation during the cold open sketch of the situation, which mocked the Texas senator for leaving on vacation while residents of his state endured icy temperatures, power outages and a lack of heat and other basic resources. .
Cruz, R-Texas, told Sean Hannity that he lost power in his home for two days before choosing to travel and admitted that he ‘almost immediately’ started getting second thoughts after boarding his flight. has. Yet the presenters of the “Weekend Update,” Colin Jost and Michael Che, took Cruz almost immediately at stake during the parody news segment of the sketch program.
“Well, if you hate Ted Cruz, it’s been a great week,” Jost began. “And if you like Ted Cruz, then you’re Ted Cruz.”
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The host continued with a mockery of Cruz explaining that he had simply flown to Mexico for the night to drop off his daughters for a trip with friends to be a ‘good dad’.
The host of ‘Weekend Update’ slapped Ted Cruz on his trip to Cancun.
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‘Cruz initially issued a statement saying he was only going on holiday because his daughters let him go and if you think it’s bad to throw his daughters under the bus, Cruz wants you to know that the statement is his wife’s idea, ‘Jost added. . “I love it, after he left Texas, he came back in a Texas flag mask like nothing happened. It’s like Jared and Ivanka walking down ‘I Love New York’ shirts in 5th Avenue. ‘
Che next time addressed the Texas senator, adding, “Cruz would have returned from Mexico earlier, but it took him about 40 minutes to get out of a hammock.”
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He continues: Many Texans are without heat or clean water after pipes froze in the extreme cold. “Young man, these kinds of things will never happen in New York,” said people who have never lived in the projects. ‘
Jost seems to be moving on from Cruz’s topic, and has pres. Briefly explain Joe Biden’s recently released immigration plan, which would give millions of immigrants without documents an eight-year path to citizenship.
“I do not know if this is such a good idea,” Jost said as he posted a photo of Cruz on the screen again. “I mean, have you seen the people coming in from Mexico these days?”
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The “Weekend Update” segment did not focus entirely on Cruz. The duo also clashed a bit with the New York government, Andrew Cuomo, who was caught up in a scandal surrounding allegations that his government withheld the coronavirus deaths in the nursing home.
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“Andrew Cuomo, who looks like all the Goodfellas at the same time, hopes to legalize marijuana next month,” Che explained later in the segment. “Cuomo hopes marijuana will provide New Yorkers with a safe, effective way to forget about nursing home supplies.”