--- ---  # Ted Cruz Talks Music, _Star Wars_ and Running Over Donald Trump on _Jimmy Kimmel Live_ by [Nash Jenkins](https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/) ## Nash Jenkins Mar 31, 2016 9:36 AM UTC  by [Nash Jenkins](https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/) ## Nash Jenkins Mar 31, 2016 9:36 AM UTC Senator Ted Cruz is in southern California this week for a campaign fundraiser, and on Wednesday night, he stopped by _Jimmy Kimmel Live._ Kimmel came at him with a string of arbitrary questions, and we ended up learning quite a lot about the Republican presidential candidate: for instance, he’s seen every _Star Wars_ film, and his favorite breakfast cereal is Mueslix. His first concert was Men at Work, the Australian new wave group behind “Down Under;” he went with his mom. A few years later, he saw Pink Floyd live, where he encountered a uniformed police officer smoking a joint. Kimmel also asked Cruz whom he disliked more — President Barack Obama or his opponent in the Republican primary, Donald Trump. “I dislike Obama’s policies more,” Cruz said. “But Donald is a unique individual.” He also suggested that he might be inclined to run over this “unique individual” with an automobile. “If I were in my car and getting ready to reverse and saw Donald in the backup camera, I’m not confident which pedal I’d push,” he said. Ted Cruz Talks 'Star Wars' and Donald Trump on Jimmy Kimmel ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4277431/ted-cruz-jimmy-kimmel/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4277431/ted-cruz-jimmy-kimmel/"},"headline":"Ted Cruz Talks Music, Star Wars and Running Over Donald Trump on Jimmy Kimmel Live","datePublished":"2016-03-31T09:36:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T16:21:01.477Z","description":"His first concert was Men at Work; he went with his mom","url":"https://time.com/4277431/ted-cruz-jimmy-kimmel/","keywords":["2016 Election topic","Barack Obama","Television","Jimmy Kimmel","ted cruz","jimmy kimmel live","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt16b482e2f0d9d630/69888d263c163997c445ca63/screen-shot-2016-03-31-at-4-51-52-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nash Jenkins","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt16b482e2f0d9d630/69888d263c163997c445ca63/screen-shot-2016-03-31-at-4-51-52-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2016-03-31 at 4.51.52 PM","caption":"","creditText":"","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/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4277431/ted-cruz-jimmy-kimmel/","name":"Ted Cruz Talks Music, Star Wars and Running Over Donald Trump on Jimmy Kimmel Live"}}]}] ```