Jimmy Kimmel recruited “RuPaul’s Drag Race” star Trixie Mattel to mockingly promote Sen. Ted Cruz’s new book (R-Texas) “Unwoke” on Thursday.
Kimmel thought his longtime foe’s new written effort could do with some extra promotion following reports the senator’s campaign spent $150,000 on copies of a previous tome.
Trixie Mattel held a “Drag Queen Storytime” ― the concept of which is a flashpoint in the conservative culture wars ― with some children, who yawned and appeared bored during a passage in which Cruz whined about “woke, Neo-Marxist ideas.”
A fake excerpt explained the real reason Cruz ditched Texas for Cancun amid a deadly winter storm.
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“We learned nothing today,” one child said.
Trixie later gave them all copies of “Unwoke” to take home, which they promptly dumped in the trash.
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Cruz responded to the clip on X, formerly Twitter.
“Awesome!” he wrote, thanking Kimmel for buying “at least NINE copies of my new book” ― even though they ended up in the bin.
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