On her May 9, 2016 show, TBS host Samantha Bee unloosed a foul-mouthed tirade against GOP Senator Ted Cruz, who had days earlier dropped out of the 2016 presidential race:
“We were all blindsided by Ted Cruz suspending his campaign, no one more than me. I think you know what that man meant to Full Frontal [starts clips from past shows]: Ted Cruz, Princeton’s unwanted fetus. Fish-faced horseshit salesman. The world’s only unlikeable Canadian.... Self-described human....Half-melted Reagan dummy. Unflushable toilet clog.”