“Plumbing catastrophe” be damned. Texas Senator Ted Cruz is feeling cheeky.

While his state slowly recovers from a deadly infrastructure disaster triggered by extreme weather, Sen. Cruz played for laughs on Friday at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida (watch above).

“I gotta say, Orlando is awesome! It’s not as nice as Cancun, but it’s nice,“ Cruz told the crowd. The booing was audible. Others laughed. The Texas Senator was criticized for flying to Cancun last week as his constituents struggled with food shortages, lack of heat, and lack of running water.

Cruz’s routine meandered into mockery of prominent Democrats, “Bernie’s wearing mittens and AOC is telling us she was murdered,” he said.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ quaint choice of gloves at Joe Biden’s Presidential Inauguration was the subject of viral memes. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, of New York, recently said she was afraid she wouldn’t survive the deadly January 6th insurrection at the Capitol. Rep. Ocasio-Cortez is a sexual assault survivor and a frequent target of extremist vitriol. Not exactly funny. He failed to mention that AOC raised nearly five million dollars to help Texans recover from last week’s historic storm.

Cruz also made fun of public health guidelines experts say will help end the pandemic.  “Now they’re saying, everybody can get immunized, we can have herd immunity everywhere, and we’re going to wear masks for the next 300 years,” Cruz told the audience. “And by the way, not just one mask, two, three, four. You can’t have too many masks. How much virtue do you want to signal? This is just dumb.”

Earlier in the day, CPAC organizers were jeered for encouraging attendees to wear face masks.

Cruz does not have a stellar track record when it comes to pandemic commentary. In July, the 2024 presidential hopeful proclaimed, “I guarantee you, the week after the election suddenly all those Democratic governors, all those Democratic mayors, will say, ‘Everything is magically better. Go back to work, go back to school.’ Suddenly, the problems are solved.”

Since the election, the U.S. death toll from the pandemic has more than doubled.

At last year’s CPAC, then-Vice President Mike Pence told the crowd of influential conservatives that the risk of Covid-19 “remains low” for Americans. That didn’t age well.

Meanwhile, as Cruz looks to 2024, he didn’t mind throwing in some rather flattering references to the man who has so often disparaged him before, Donald Trump.