Ted Cruz Provides the Humor Break We All Need in Hilarious Quip About Why He Grew His Beard

By Sister Toldjah | 4:30 PM on July 30, 2019

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Subcommittee Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks as Federal Aviation Administration Acting Administrator Daniel Elwell, National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Robert Sumwalt, and Department of Transportation Inspector General Calvin Scovel appear before a Senate Transportation subcommittee hearing on commercial airline safety, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, March 27, 2019, in Washington. Two recent Boeing 737 MAX crashes, in Ethiopia and Indonesia, which killed nearly 350 people, have lead to the temporary grounding of models of the aircraft and to increased scrutiny of the FAA's delegation of a number of aspects of the certification process to the aircraft manufacturers themselves. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Subcommittee Chairman Ted Cruz, R-TX, speaks as FAA Acting Administrator Daniel Elwell, NTSB Chairman Robert Sumwalt, and DOT I.G. Calvin Scovel appear before a Senate Transportation subcommittee hearing on commercial airline safety, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, 3/27/19, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

As Red State‘s Brandon Morse wrote earlier today, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was besieged at LAX over the weekend by loud protesters who oppose his anti-open borders stance. Cruz remained unfazed, even smiling and laughing as he posed for pictures while the organized mob yelled at him in the background.

That humor carried over into today, when the Senator noticed a news report about how Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) had decided to grow a beard so people would stop confusing him for his twin brother and 2020 presidential candidate Julian:

Reporters were thrown off by the pair at last month’s Democratic presidential debate in Miami, when the brothers entered the media room afterward in similar suits.

And at a candidates’ forum in April, organizers mistakenly used a photo of Joaquin.

Julian took it in stride, saying it was OK because his brother is “better-looking.”

But Joaquin has come up with a solution to the hairy situation: He’s growing a beard.

“I hadn’t shaved in, like, five days, and I thought I’ll just go ahead and grow it, you know?” Joaquin, who reps the San Antonio area, told The Post.

Cruz responded to the report by saying he understood the frequent mix-ups, because he grew a beard to stop being confused with Kevin Malone from “The Office” series:

Same, but Kevin Malone https://t.co/xDSQVfJKm9

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) July 30, 2019

Twitter users got a big kick out of the quip and responded:

The best gif of all time pic.twitter.com/OOT66LV1T3

— Jessica Fletcher (@heckyessica) July 30, 2019

Here’s the video that .gif came from:

pic.twitter.com/Pi3bbNPPao

— Cam Edwards (@CamEdwards) July 30, 2019

Of course, there was a Grayson Allen reference:

pic.twitter.com/JckomgXk7Y

— Jose Melendez (@JoseMelendezTX) July 30, 2019

And a Zodiac killer reference:

Is that why they still haven’t figured this out? pic.twitter.com/5CWoVNjzs9

— LiterallyTinaFail⚒🇮🇱🇺🇸 (@KristinBoymom) July 30, 2019

Brandon even got in on the fun:

That is fascinating. pic.twitter.com/kOnOjMWmBT

— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) July 30, 2019

There have been other instances of Ted Cruz look-alikes written about on the Internet, which you can scroll through here.

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