--- title: Donald Trump: Bad Lip Reading Video ofTed Cruz RNC Speech description: This satire of Ted Cruz speaking against Trump is hilarious. canonical: https://time.com/4422480/donald-trump-ted-cruz-bad-lip-reading/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-25T19:57:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:34:46.068Z og:title: Ted Cruz’s Anti-Donald Trump RNC Speech Got the 'Bad Lip Reading' Treatment og:description: Something you don't know about Mr. Trump... og:url: https://time.com/4422480/donald-trump-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’s Anti-Donald Trump RNC Speech Got the 'Bad Lip Reading' Treatment twitter:description: Something you don't know about Mr. Trump... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Ted Cruz’s Anti-Donald Trump Convention Speech Just Got the 'Bad Lip Reading' Treatment 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. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4422480/donald-trump-ted-cruz-bad-lip-reading/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4422480/donald-trump-ted-cruz-bad-lip-reading/"},"headline":"Ted Cruz’s Anti-Donald Trump Convention Speech Just Got the 'Bad Lip Reading' Treatment","datePublished":"2016-07-25T19:57:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:34:46.068Z","description":"\"Then I punched his rib\"","url":"https://time.com/4422480/donald-trump-ted-cruz-bad-lip-reading/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet","viral","ted cruz","Viral Videos","Donald Trump","Republican National Convention"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"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/4422480/donald-trump-ted-cruz-bad-lip-reading/","name":"Ted Cruz’s Anti-Donald Trump Convention Speech Just Got the 'Bad Lip Reading' Treatment"}}]}] ```