--- title: Ted Cruz Gets A Bad Lip Reading That Is So, So Good description: What was that, Senator? canonical: https://time.com/4244497/ted-cruz-bad-lip-reading/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-02T15:13:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:30:38.857Z og:title: Ted Cruz Gets A Bad Lip Reading That Is So, So Good og:description: What was that, Senator? og:url: https://time.com/4244497/ted-cruz-bad-lip-reading/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ted Cruz Gets A Bad Lip Reading That Is So, So Good twitter:description: What was that, Senator? twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Ted Cruz Gets A Bad Lip Reading That Is So, So Good by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Mar 2, 2016 3:13 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Mar 2, 2016 3:13 PM UTC Texas Senator Ted Cruz wants to reignite the promise of America and, according to this video, that begins by sticking garden gnomes in a building. The geniuses behind [Bad Lip Reading](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC67f2Qf7FYhtoUIF4Sf29cA) have turned their attention and impeccable lip reading skills onto the Republican presidential hopeful and the results are impressive. In what will undoubtedly not be a new campaign slogan, Cruz takes aim at “juicy Americans.” In this clip, the senator hates freckles, loves to twerk and likes to pass the time lighting camp cabins on fire and running away. His wife swears that Cruz is always the first one to say, “Let’s go out and eat hair!” That would certainly reignite the promise of America. Ted Cruz Gets A Bad Lip Reading That Is So, So Good ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4244497/ted-cruz-bad-lip-reading/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4244497/ted-cruz-bad-lip-reading/"},"headline":"Ted Cruz Gets A Bad Lip Reading That Is So, So Good","datePublished":"2016-03-02T15:13:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:30:38.857Z","description":"What was that, Senator?","url":"https://time.com/4244497/ted-cruz-bad-lip-reading/","keywords":["Newsfeed","2016 Election topic","politics","ted cruz","Viral Videos","2016 Republicans"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"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":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4244497/ted-cruz-bad-lip-reading/","name":"Ted Cruz Gets A Bad Lip Reading That Is So, So Good"}}]}] ```