John Cornyn panders to Trump (again) with photo in front of burger stand named after the president

The U.S. senator that once branded himself “Big Bad John” is looking less and less like a desperado than, well, one desperate mofo.

Facing what may be the primary fight of his career, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn appears to have entered full Trump-bootlicking mode on social media. On Saturday, the Texas Republican tweeted a photo of himself giving two thumbs up in front of a fast-food business called Trump Burger.

“It’s the last day of Small Business Week so I decided to stop by Trump Burger in Houston!” Cornyn wrote. “Stop by a small business and show your support.”

Something tells us Cornyn was far less interested in celebrating small business than playing to an audience of one — namely the orange-hued hobgoblin whose name adorns the burger stand.

It doesn’t help that the senator’s tweet follows less than two months after he drew online ridicule for sharing an obviously staged social-media snapshot of himself engrossed in the president’s 1987 book The Art of the Deal. There’s that audience of one again.

For those who haven’t been following GOP inside baseball, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a fervent guzzler of the Trump Kool-Aid, has mounted a primary challenge against Cornyn, whom many of the president’s adherents have attacked as a RINO, or Republican In Name Only. Observers expect an ugly and expensive fight in which both men grovel overtime to win Trump’s endorsement.

If Saturday’s post is any indication, expect more clownish online pandering from Cornyn as the race heats up. Anyone wanna guess whether his next tweet is a meme showing him shining Trump’s shoes or laundering the sweaty Jockey shorts the president plays golf in?

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