{"id":491623,"date":"2026-02-26T12:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/491623\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T12:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:49:14","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-has-1-blunt-question-for-ted-cruz-after-trump-praise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/491623\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel Has 1 Blunt Question For Ted Cruz After Trump Praise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis is the big difference between Trump supporters and everybody on the other side,\u201d Kimmel said. \u201cThe worse Trump is, the harder MAGA-land works to tickle his little pumpkinets.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Kimmel aired a supercut video that included Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/topic\/katie-britt\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Katie Britt\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"699ff7f5e4b0100c25473b32\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"\/topic\/katie-britt\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"feed\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Katie Britt<\/a> (R-Ala.) praising the speech as \u201cmasterful,\u201d Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/topic\/jim-jordan\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Jim Jordan\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"699ff7f5e4b0100c25473b32\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"\/topic\/jim-jordan\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"feed\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jim Jordan<\/a> (R-Ohio) calling it \u201cby far the best one,\u201d and MyPillow guy\/conspiracy theorist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/topic\/mike-lindell\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Mike Lindell\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"699ff7f5e4b0100c25473b32\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"\/topic\/mike-lindell\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"feed\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mike Lindell<\/a> declaring it \u201cepic.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>And longtime Kimmel nemesis Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/news\/topic\/ted-cruz\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Ted Cruz\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"699ff7f5e4b0100c25473b32\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"\/news\/topic\/ted-cruz\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"feed\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ted Cruz<\/a> (R-Texas) called it a \u201cmajestic speech,\u201d which left the host laughing. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe still doesn\u2019t like you, Ted,\u201d he said through the chuckles. \u201cForget about it. He\u2019s never gonna like you. No one does.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>But Cruz has become a staunch Trump supporter anyway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wonder if when Ted Cruz goes home at night, he looks in the mirror and throws up,\u201d Kimmel asked. <\/p>\n<p>See more in his Wednesday night monologue: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThis is the big difference between Trump supporters and everybody on the other side,\u201d Kimmel said. \u201cThe worse&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[12,88,90527,17114,9669,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-491623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-jim-jordan","11":"tag-jimmy-kimmel","12":"tag-ted-cruz","13":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}