Ted Cruz's College Roommate Says Senator Has Been 'Pathetic Since 1988'

By Emma Nolan

Senior Reporter

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Ted Cruz's college roommate Craig Mazin has said the Republican senator has been "pathetic since 1988" in a heated Twitter exchange.

A Hollywood screenwriter, Mazin has aired his views on his former roommate several times—and he doesn't paint a flattering picture of the lawmaker.

Mazin, who is known for his work on HBO's Chernobyl, waded into a Twitter spat between Cruz and Hollywood actor Ron Perlman.

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Cruz, in defense of his GOP colleague, Jim Jordan, challenged Perlman that he couldn't beat Jordan in a wrestling match, which led to Mazin criticizing the former Republican presidential candidate for engaging in a Twitter argument.

Not holding back, Mazin replied to one of Cruz's tweets where he called the Hellboy actor a "racial justice warrior," calling him "pathetic" and telling him to do his job "with dignity."

He wrote: "You're a United States Senator, @tedcruz. Stop sh***ing out of your mouth and do your job with dignity oh who am I kidding you've been this pathetic since 1988, and you will remain this pathetic until you're gone."

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The pair lived together during their freshman year at Princeton University in 1988. The Hangover 2 screenwriter openly despises Cruz and has quite the history of disparaging him on Twitter.

In 2016, Mazin tweeted: "I'm starting to feel like the U.S. should pay me reparations for my freshman year," when the New York Times published an opinion piece titled The Brutalism of Ted Cruz.

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Ahead of the 2016, presidential election, he tweeted: "Don't you hate it when you wake up and read about your jerk freshman year roommate running for President? We've all been there, right?"

In 2017, when Cruz was involved in a Twitter scandal because his account liked a pornographic tweet, Mazin did not hold back eviscerating his former roommate online.

One of his tweets from the time reads: "Sadly, the fact that Ted Cruz jacks off to mediocre porn spam is the most human thing we can say about him. This is actually his high point."

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He also hit out at Cruz for supporting a ban on sex toys in Texas, writing: "Ted Cruz thinks people don't have a right to 'stimulate their genitals.' I was his college roommate. This would be a new belief of his."

Mazin has been dishing out the anti-Cruz tweets for the best part of a decade.

During Cruz's 2012 senatorial campaign, Mazin wrote: "My freshman year college roommate Ted Cruz is going to be elected Senator. In case I hadn't made it clear, he's also a huge a**hole."

Another choice tweet from 2013 reads: "One thing Ted Cruz is really good at: uniting people who otherwise disagree about everything else in a total hatred of Ted Cruz."

Cruz has never publicly spoken about Mazin's tweets about him, and they avoided each other at a Princeton reunion in 2017.

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