'Jaw-Dropping': People Are Stunned By Ted Cruz's Ominous Trump Warning In Decade-Old Clip

A near-decade-old clip of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has resurfaced showing him questioning Donald Trump’s judgment and using an ominous, then-wild hypothetical for why he shouldn’t be president: He could attack Denmark. (Watch below.)

“I don’t know anyone who would be comfortable with someone who behaves this way having his finger on the button,” said Cruz in a clip from the heat of his failed 2016 presidential campaign. “I mean, we’re liable to wake up one morning and Donald, if he were president, would have nuked Denmark. That’s not the temperament of a leader to keep this country safe.”

The clip is bubbling back up as Trump increases his threats to take over Greenland, declaring on Truth Social that “anything less” than getting control of the semiautonomous territory of Denmark would be “unacceptable.”

Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Denmark’s foreign minister, dismissed Trump’s talk following a meeting at the White House, telling reporters that he and the president still have a “fundamental disagreement” over the Arctic island. He also urged the U.S. not to cross the “red lines” of Denmark and Greenland.

The clip of Cruz was filmed just two days after his win in the Iowa caucuses.

At the time, Trump initially congratulated Cruz on the victory but his praise didn’t last long as he soon accused the Texas senator of committing fraud to pull off the W.

Cruz, when asked by a reporter in New Hampshire whether Trump’s comments “cross the line” for him, charged the future president with “losing it” before stressing why the U.S. doesn’t need a “twitterer-in-chief.”

Cruz would later become a fierce Trump ally and defended the president’s lies about his 2020 election loss.

On Wednesday, social media users reacted to the “jaw-dropping” Cruz clip, with one TikToker joking that it “aged well” and a Bluesky user charging the Texas senator with enabling Trump “all the way” to a potential attack.