‘The Daily Show’ host Trevor Noah takes a jab at ‘Senator Cancun’ from Texas

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is arguing with someone again on Twitter, and this time it’s whoever’s behind the “The Daily Show” feed.

On Wednesday, “The Daily Show” posted a video of host Trevor Noah talking about the 2020 Census results, explaining how New York lost a seat and Texas gained two. The caption read, “The 2020 Census: New York gets screwed out of a House seat, Texas is the big winner, and we’re back in the 1930s.”

In the video, Noah says the American population grew at the slowest rate since the 1930s. He believes it’s because immigration is down and the birthrate is falling – here, he shows a picture of Cruz, joking that the photo of the senator is the reason for the decline in the birth rate.

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Cruz wasn’t keen on the jab, so he tweeted the video, writing that “Trevor Noah whines that people are fleeing high-tax blue states & moving in droves to low-tax states like Texas, where the jobs are.”

“The Daily Show” clapped back, using Cruz’s highly criticized trip to Cancun, which he took during a time many of his constituents were freezing and without power during the devastating Texas snowstorm. 

“Not sure I’d be using the words ‘fleeing’ and ‘Texas’ in the same sentence, Senator Cancun,” the tweet from “The Daily Show” reads.

Texas’ junior senator didn’t mention the trip when he responded to the comment (of course), writing instead: “I wear your scorn with pride. I remember when the Daily Show was funny.”

“And with that, Ted Cruz has officially fought back harder against a tweet from a late-night show than he ever did when Trump called his wife ugly,” “The Daily Show” responded, ending the back-and-forth online argument.

We can’t say for sure it’s Noah behind those tweets from “The Daily Show,” but he’s been known to criticize Cruz on his show. So, we wouldn’t be surprised.