Well, well, well… Donald Trump may have a frenemy in his camp. While Ted Cruz has been very supportive of the President publicly, it seems he’s not quite as enthused about him behind closed doors. In recently leaked audio, the senator allegedly had a good ol’ fashioned bitching session about Trump and JD Vance.
Ted Cruz criticized POTUS and the VP
In a leaked recording obtained by news outlet Axios, Cruz is allegedly heard dissing Trump and Vance (who has a new nickname, BTW). The audio, which was reportedly caught in mid-2025 when Cruz was talking to Republican donors.
In it, he reportedly critiques Trump’s economic agenda and raises doubts about Vance’s political independence. He tore into the President’s tariff plans and said they could damage the country’s economy, reports Axios.
In one part of the recording, Cruz allegedly recounts a time he gave the President a stark warning. He reportedly said: “Mr. President, if we get to November of [2026] and people’s 401(k)s are down 30 percent and prices are up 10–20 percent at the supermarket, we’re going to go into Election Day, face a bloodbath. 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.”
Trump’s alleged reply was “F*ck you, Ted.”
Cruz also reportedly claimed he and several GOP senators confronted Trump during a late-night call that quickly blew up. “It did not go well,” Cruz reportedly told donors, saying Trump was yelling and cursing at lawmakers.
Cruz’s office apparently didn’t question the authenticity of the audio. But they did emphasis his loyalty to Trump. A statement to Axios read: “Senator Cruz is the president’s greatest ally in the Senate and battles every day in the trenches to advance his agenda.”
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