Ted Cruz has a mullet
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has made another questionable hair choice.
As former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial wrapped up Friday, observers noted something particularly odd about one of the jurors: His hair. Cruz's salt-and-pepper locks were slicked back in a style that could only be described as a budding Morgan Wallen.
A review of recent photographs of the senator revealed he'd been rocking the heavily gelled look for weeks now.
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And given his past refusal to follow pandemic lockdown rules, his new 'do is probably a deliberate choice and not just Cruz's inability to get to a barber.
The new look comes about two years after Cruz emerged from a congressional recess with a potentially revolutionary beard, and has kept it ever since.
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