--- title: Jimmy Kimmel Slams Ted Cruz for Porn Tweet Scandal VIDEO description: Watch Jimmy Kimmel roast Ted Cruz for 'liking' a 'porn video' from an explicit Twitter account during the opening monologue of Live! canonical: https://time.com/4939334/jimmy-kimmel-ted-cruz-porn-tweet/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-13T15:24:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:47:12.548Z og:title: Jimmy Kimmel Lays Into Ted Cruz for 'Stepmom Porn' Tweet Debacle og:description: "He’s a family values guy" og:url: https://time.com/4939334/jimmy-kimmel-ted-cruz-porn-tweet/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfd2cc695558730aa/6988dd9fab6d776e426afcb4/ted.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Ted og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jimmy Kimmel Lays Into Ted Cruz for 'Stepmom Porn' Tweet Debacle twitter:description: "He’s a family values guy" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfd2cc695558730aa/6988dd9fab6d776e426afcb4/ted.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jimmy Kimmel Lays Into Ted Cruz for 'Stepmom Porn' Tweet Debacle With Mock Ad  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 13, 2017 3:24 PM UTC   by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 13, 2017 3:24 PM UTC The [Internet has been abuzz](http://time.com/4937060/ted-cruz-twitter-like-porn-reactions/) about [Ted Cruz](http://time.com/4837096/ted-cruz-cubs-owner-tom-ricketts-lookalike/) since the Texas senator’s official Twitter account “liked” an explicit tweet Monday night, and now [Jimmy Kimmel](http://time.com/4937240/kristen-bell-irma-on-kimmel/) has gotten in on the action. During the opening monologue of Tuesday’s episode of _Live!_, the host slammed Cruz for ‘liking’ a ‘hardcore porn video’ from account @SexuallPosts. “The video is from a genre known as ‘stepmom porn,’ which is, oh, he’s a family values guy,” Kimmel joked. “Just think, if only he’d done something this perverted during the campaign, he might be president right now.” Cruz has [attributed the fiasco to an inadvertent “staffing issue,”](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/09/12/after-tedcruz-liked-a-porn-tweet-sen-ted-cruz-blamed-a-staffing-issue/?utm%5Fterm=.9dc9db29536f) saying “it was a mistake.” However that didn’t stop Kimmel from airing a fake super PAC ad aimed at making it clear where Cruz stands on adult entertainment. “Do you really believe this Princeton educated man is so unaware of how to indulge his sexual urges in a healthy way he memorized the name of a Twitter porn handle so he could come back later and watch the videos without following the account itself,” the voiceover questions. 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