U.S. Senator Ted Cruz smirks from the stage at the 2021 Student Action Summit. Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Gage Skidmore

Sometimes it’s damn near impossible for people to let you live down your worst moment. Just ask U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz.

Three years after taking a family vacation to balmy Cancun while Winter Storm Uri left his constituents shivering — and some even dying — in their homes, Texas’ junior senator just can’t seem to shake that bad decision.

Take his tweet Sunday sharing a video from Houston retailer “Mattress Mack” offering to help as Hurricane Beryl makes its way to the Texas Coast. Mack is known to Houstonians for opening his furniture stores as shelters during natural disasters.

“Mack is an American hero,” Cruz said. “Stay safe & avoid high water as the hurricane makes landfall.”

Nothing wrong with that sentiment. Unless you happen to have been caught leaving for warmer climes while your fellow Texans endured one of the state’s worst-ever natural disasters.

It didn’t take long for users of the social media platform X to dogpile on Cruz.

“Unlike YOU, Cancun Cruz, Mack actually stays and helps people,” user @JaneSkelton fired back. “Got your flight booked to Cancun for Monday?”

“If this were headed for Teddy’s house, he would be heading for Cancun,” @ProudPenna chimed in.

Meanwhile, political commentator Robert Elisberg skewered Cruz for a “PROFOUND LACK of self-awareness,” adding that the senator’s tweet only serves as a reminder that he “infamously was NOT ‘here’ for Texas during an earlier natural disaster.”

Best of luck next tweet, Ted.

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This article appears in Jun 26 – Jul 2, 2024.

Sanford Nowlin is editor-in-chief of the San Antonio Current. He holds degrees from Trinity University and the University of Texas at San Antonio, and his work has been featured in Salon, Alternet, Creative...