

The offensive cartoon should not be surprising given that the Post editorial cartoonist, Ann Telnaes, won an award from Planned Parenthood. “Seems like a better idea for a cartoon: Hillary and her lapdogs,” Cruz wrote on Twitter. Now, Cruz has released his own cartoon - this one depicting Hillary Clinton and showing the New York Times and Washington Post as her lapdogs: Within an hour, Ted Cruz took to Twitter to bash the classy display from The Washington Post cartoonist, noting that his daughters Caroline & Catherine are out of your league. Stick w/ attacking me–Caroline & Catherine are out of your league,” Cruz tweeted Tuesday with a link to the cartoon. Ted Cruz's two daughters will have to quarantine for seven to 10 days after returning from their now-infamous trip to Cancun - and they will miss classes at their pricey private school.

The monkeys represent Cruz’s daughters Caroline, 7, and Catherine, 4. The animated cartoon featured a Santa Claus-costumed Cruz winding a music box as two leashed monkeys danced in elf costumes. The Washington Post retracted the editorial cartoon after Cruz scolded the newspaper and a massive conservative backlash online. The cartoon depicts his grade-school daughters as dancing monkeys for their appearance in a presidential campaign ad Cruz ran talking about conservative Christmas book selections. In the ad, Cruz reads aloud parody versions of popular. After a controversial cartoon the Washington Post carried on Tuesday that depicts pro-life Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz’s children as monkey, Cruz is responding with his own cartoon. Ted Cruz responded to a racist cartoon about his daughters published by the Washington Post with an animal-themed cartoon of his own.
