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# Ted Cruz’s Anti-Donald Trump Convention Speech Just Got the 'Bad Lip Reading' Treatment

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by 

[Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/)


## Ashley Hoffman


Jul 25, 2016 7:57 PM UTC

by 

[Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/)


## Ashley Hoffman


Jul 25, 2016 7:57 PM UTC

The satirical group Bad Lip Reading has given [Ted Cruz’s](http://time.com/4244497/ted-cruz-bad-lip-reading/) Republican National Committee speech the full treatment in a video posted Monday.

In the manipulated footage, Cruz isn’t great at takedowns. But he does his best, deploying a garden variety of random one-liners to make Donald Trump look terrible from: “he put meth on my fork once,” to “that guy is grosser than a demon hellcat.” The crowd just looks on with confusion or utter disgust.

In reality the Texas Senator [declined to endorse Trump](http://time.com/4419216/donald-trump-cruz-booed/), but in this parody video, singing, dissing and earning a black belt in creepy laughs, fake Cruz is a face-palm a second.

Watch below.

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