Long before his presidential run, a young Ted Cruz sought access to money, power and “world domination.” In video footage shot of teenage Cruz posted to YouTube, the future Texas senator was asked about his life goals.
“Aspirations? Is that like sweat on my butt?” cracked Cruz, smirking at his own bad joke in the 1988 video.
“No no, oh I see, what you want me to do, what I want to do in life. Well my aspiration is to, uh, oh I don’t know, be in a teen t-t film — like that guy who played Horatio. You know he was in `Malibu Bikini Beach Shop,’” he said, referring to the campy 1986 flick, actually titled “The Malibu Bikini Shop.”
He continued: “Well, other than that, take over the world, world domination, you know, rule everything,” the considerably skinnier Cruz said back then. “Rich, powerful, that sort of stuff.”
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