Alexandra Daddario: Ted Cruz calls out rising costs ahead of another Texas winter storm as well as flight tickets to Cancun has skyrocketed 32% due to Hyperinflation

Ted Cruz tweets about rising Cancun flight costs ahead of another Texas winter storm

AUSTIN (KXAN) — As Texas braces for the arrival of another winter storm, Sen. Ted Cruz pointed out that the cost of airfare to Cancun is not the only price rising right now.
Cruz posted Wednesday morning on his personal Twitter account, “Inflation is out of control.” He then listed the words gas prices, food prices and lumber prices next to upward arrow emojis. He concluded the tweet by writing,

“And tickets to Cancun are up 32%!”

… “Let’s Go Brandon”?

The tweet received mixed reactions online. Some Twitter users expressed amusement about the airfare comment, saying it shows Cruz’s sense of humor since it makes light of his trip to Mexico last year at the height of the previous winter storm. He flew with his family to Cancun in Feb. 2021 at a time when millions remained without power and water across the state. He later returned home after much uproar and called the trip “obviously a mistake.”
Cruz previously joked about taking the Cancun trip during remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference a few weeks after last year’s Texas winter storm and again in a November tweet.
This latest social media post also stirred up much of the criticism Cruz faced last year, with people this time describing it as “insensitive,” “unhelpful” and “not funny.” State Rep. Gene Wu, a Houston Democrat, tweeted, “Let’s reminisce about that time you abandoned the state when we were going through a catastrophic natural disaster that took the lives of 700 Texans.”
After Cruz posted his tweet, the word Cancun trended Wednesday afternoon alongside the hashtag #TexasFreeze… More