--- title: Ted Cruz Slams Cartoon Showing His Daughters as Monkeys description: He criticized the Washington Post's online editorial cartoon as a "tasteless attack" canonical: https://time.com/4159946/ted-cruz-daughters-cartoon-monkeys/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-23T14:30:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T13:36:31.246Z article:section: Politics og:title: Ted Cruz Slams Cartoon Showing His Daughters as Monkeys og:description: He criticized the Washington Post's online editorial cartoon as a "tasteless attack" og:url: https://time.com/4159946/ted-cruz-daughters-cartoon-monkeys/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt503ab5982ea3feb5/698876ac3c163964db45b528/ted-cruz-daughters.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Ted Cruz og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ted Cruz Slams Cartoon Showing His Daughters as Monkeys twitter:description: He criticized the Washington Post's online editorial cartoon as a "tasteless attack" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt503ab5982ea3feb5/698876ac3c163964db45b528/ted-cruz-daughters.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Ted Cruz Slams Cartoon Showing His Daughters as Monkeys by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Dec 23, 2015 2:30 PM UTC  Republican presidential candidate and Sen. Ted Cruz, holds his daughters Catherine, left, and Caroline at a "Rally for Religious Liberty," Aug. 21, 2015, in Des Moines, Iowa. Republican presidential candidate and Sen. Ted Cruz, holds his daughters Catherine, left, and Caroline at a "Rally for Religious Liberty," Aug. 21, 2015, in Des Moines, Iowa.Paul Sancya—AP by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Dec 23, 2015 2:30 PM UTC Sen. Ted Cruz launched an “emergency” appeal seeking to raise $1 million in 24 hours in response to a Washington _Post_ online editorial cartoon depicting his two young daughters as dancing monkeys. The Republican presidential candidate also criticized the paper for its “tasteless attack” on his children. “My daughters are not FAIR GAME,” he wrote in a fundraising email sent late Tuesday. “I’m sickened … I knew I’d be facing attacks from day one of my campaign, but I never expected anything like this.” Cruz accused the “liberal media” of attempting to “attack and destroy me (and my family) by any means necessary.” [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/ted-cruz-blasts-washington-post-cartoon-daughters-monkeys-n484901?) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4159946/ted-cruz-daughters-cartoon-monkeys/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4159946/ted-cruz-daughters-cartoon-monkeys/"},"headline":"Ted Cruz Slams Cartoon Showing His Daughters as Monkeys","datePublished":"2015-12-23T14:30:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T13:36:31.246Z","description":"He criticized the Washington Post's online editorial cartoon as a \"tasteless attack\"","url":"https://time.com/4159946/ted-cruz-daughters-cartoon-monkeys/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic","ted cruz"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt503ab5982ea3feb5/698876ac3c163964db45b528/ted-cruz-daughters.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt503ab5982ea3feb5/698876ac3c163964db45b528/ted-cruz-daughters.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Ted Cruz","caption":"Ted Cruz","creditText":"Paul Sancya—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4159946/ted-cruz-daughters-cartoon-monkeys/","name":"Ted Cruz Slams Cartoon Showing His Daughters as Monkeys"}}]}] ```