Ted Cruz warned Donald Trump, his fellow Republican, that he would face a “bloodbath” in the November midterm elections if prices continued to rise, prompting the president to respond, “fuck you, Ted,” the US senator told donors, according to a secret recording of the private conversation obtained by Axios.
Cruz reportedly delivered the reality check to the president in a phone conversation after Trump unveiled sweeping tariffs a few months after returning to the Oval Office in early 2025. The president was unhappy, Cruz said – and yelled and cursed in a conversation with Republican senators.
“Mr President, if we get to November of [2026] and people’s 401(k)s are down 30% and prices are up 10–20% at the supermarket, we’re going to go into election day, face a bloodbath,” Cruz said he told the president, according to Axios. “You’re going to lose the House, you’re going to lose the Senate, you’re going to spend the next two years being impeached every single week.”
Only 34% approve of how Trump has handled the cost of living while 64% disapprove, according to a recent New York Times/Siena poll. There is also evidence the economy may be motivating those who voted for Trump in 2024 but now disapprove of him, according to the Times.
Mr President, if we get to November of [2026] and people’s 401(k)s are down 30% and prices are up 10–20% at the supermarket, we’re going to go into election day, face a bloodbath
Wow, I agree with something Ted Cruz said. That doesn’t happen often.
fuck you, Ted
And I agree with something Trump said? On the same day, no less. What are the odds?
Thirty percent? Is that all it would take?
You ever talked a weed republican? Stingiest people on earth. I could see them not voting.
(They used to be called ‘libertarians’ but its clear now they don’t give a shit about rights, just weed)
To be fair, I don’t know if there’s a person on earth who doesnt want to say “Fuck you Ted” to Ted Cruz. Hate Trump, don’t blame him for that one though.
Even a broken clock hates Ted Cruz as they say
There’s not a single person on earth?? That’s a bit of an exaggeration. The people of Texas continue voting for “Fled Cruz”…
Flyin’ Ted
he recently fled to california, to avoid “freezing to death” so he can shed his reptilian skin.
“Erm actually that silly statement you made factually incorrect, allow me to provide you with adequate data to disprove your assertion” -your pedantic ass
Chill. No one’s correcting you, I’m highlighting the absurd fact that the idiot Republicans in Texas actually approve of Cruz! We’re all being silly here…
Yee yee im just having fun
I’m sure many of us would prefer, “Fuck you, Raphael.”
hard to say it to a person who is the zodiac killer.
"[Y]ou’re going to spend the next two years being impeached every single week.”
Ted Cruz has more faith in Democrats than I do.
They shouldn’t impeach Trump every week. Some weeks we should impeach Noem, Clarence Thomas, Besset, Hegseth, Mike Johnson, and a bunch of others.
The WH has become a sieve and I’m here for it.
I just wish the Whitehouse was boring again.
Remember the days when sex between consenting adults was a scandal?
I wish it was a crater.
Your wish is 1/3 of the way fulfilled.
Don’t amplify this greasy shit-weasel’s attempt to distance himself from the fascist regime he’s been taint-suckling for years. The only next Cruz headline that is relevant will be “Cruz resigns in humiliation and disgrace…”
Nah, the next Presidential election is going to be Cruz vs Newsom
cruz neither feels shame, disgrace or humiliation he has a kink for it.
Trump is losing the narrative. He spent so much time talking about Biden and Obama policies and how he was going to fix them, and then when he implemented his fixes and they didn’t work, he just doubled down that they did because back then, his sycophants just believed anything he said. Now that everyone can see him for what he is, he can’t hide behind the lies anymore. Even my parents, who were staunch supporters of his during both elections, have gone quiet. Couple that with the current state of ICE, his threats to Canada and Greenland (and Iceland by idiot-proxy), and the glossing of the Epstein files, there is a lot of ammo against the Republicans going into Midterms. Its no wonder he keeps pawing around the idea of skipping them entirely. He’s running out of time before falling over the cliff. Trump got away with what he did because he was a useful idiot. However, they overfed the beast and he got fat. Now he’s gotten too large and is blocking the progress that the GOP thought it was going to make. How long before they stuff his bloated political corpse full of dynamite and blow him off the beach?
Add to that prez is losing his mind, such as it was. He lost what little internal screen he had, falls asleep at national televised meetings, and is being led by the project 2025 people in the party that got him to betray his america 1st, (as if there was any doubt to us,) and his populist rhetoric stops where the plutocracy starts, as the party keeps him occupied to not upset interests that would help his popularity.
Look at mamdami, or petro of colombia, enemies of the party, they left him alone with each for 20 minutes and he is best pals with them, as his handlers face palm and distract him elsewhere, look at that shiny trophy!
Obviously gerrymanders give them advantage but they are getting too greedy, not leaving enough margin, which is how they lost 2018. But they do plan on cheating every way they can. Of dishonoring results. And the opposition is chosen to be weak and responds to r fake populism by copying them instead of their own popular rhetoric. Sold out and we all know it.
So while they should lose the house, we are still bereft of popular leadership, of a leader that can build and run a political machine, and promises to restore the republic.
There is also evidence the economy may be motivating those who voted for Trump in 2024 but now disapprove of him
“Single issue voters have been stung by the other thing he said he would do, but they didn’t listen to, because wasn’t that one thing they were bothered about.”
you’re going to spend the next two years being impeached every single week.
What a wonderful dream!
Raphael Cruz is learning about leopards eating faces.
I love it when the GOP base fractures!
This screams for Untergang Hitler video.
We all know Raphael doesn’t have a spine, if he’s willing to say this, it means trump has already lost massive support not only from Republicans but the donors who back them.
Fuck the WHOLE GOP
Is Raphael still in California, or has he returned to TX now that the storm is over?
did his skin stopped molting? im pretty sure cold blood animals dont survive freezing temps very well.
Trump don’t care
“You’re going to lose the House, you’re going to lose the Senate, you’re going to spend the next two years being impeached every single week.”
And maybe, just maybe this time, Republicans who are getting soured on by what Trump is doing, may not protect him. McConnell will not be there this time to protect Trump.
I hope so, but I’m not optimistic. Starting in 2016 the GOP centered their entire platform around Trump. Candidates completed to be the most dedicated Trump supporters. Republicans who weren’t on board either resigned or were largely replaced at the polls with MAGA candidates. They can’t abandon him; it would be a total identity crisis. They are going to ride the Trump train to the bitter end.
especially if trumps/krasnov handler is funding him and all the gop.
instead they are trying to use gop-lite in the DNC to do it, so the Rs dont look bad in the houses.
