At a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on Thursday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) made jokes about King Louis XIV and President Trump.
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00:00And I thank you, Mr. Chairman, for the opportunity to be here.
00:05Thank you, Your Majesty.
00:08And I will say I did not know that my friend from Massachusetts had acquired the nickname the Sun King,
00:15which the previous Sun King, of course, was King Louis XIV in France,
00:20whose best-known statement was l'état c'est moi, I am the state,
00:25which may explain the differences between Senator Markey and myself on the size of government.
00:32Well, I think President Trump is quoting King Louis very favorably.
00:41That's a fair point, since he did, in fact, tweet out Louis.
00:44Les voix, c'est moi.
00:46I think I saw it.
00:48I didn't know he knew French.
00:48I think he, in fact, did, in fact, quote favorably.
00:53Not even, as you are, you're doing it with a very high risible coefficient.
00:59You're doing it jokingly.
01:01I think he was serious.
01:03Although, I will say this.
01:05I think you gave the president good advice two days ago, acting, we'll call it more like King Louis.
01:11Well, I will note, as you know, I lived three years in Massachusetts,
01:14and I remember my third year of law school, where it snowed in the month of May,
01:19which I thought was positively immoral, and as you noted, the sun is a very good recruiter for the great state of Texas.
01:27I am fond of saying you can't shovel sunshine, and that is a beautiful thing.
01:32And I'll give you some news that the winters in Boston are now six degrees warmer than they were in 1970 because of climate change.
01:41So our ponds don't even freeze over in the winter anymore, much less snowing in May.
01:47So maybe kids from Texas going to law school up in Boston now enjoy May a lot more than they used to.