Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is mocking the Democratic response to President Trump’s Oval Office address on Tuesday, calling the remarks by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) “one of the most frightening things” he’s even seen.

Cruz gave his perspective on the Democratic response to Trump’s prime-time message to the nation in an interview with the Daily Caller published Friday. 

{mosads}”I gotta say, watching the Schumer-Pelosi response was one of the most frightening things I’ve seen,” Cruz says. “You want to talk about a visual? I am pretty convinced that was an actual hostage video.”

“Go back and look at it again,” he adds. “I am virtually certain that Nancy is blinking S.O.S. as Chuck Schumer is talking. They’re hostage to the extreme, the radicals, to the crazies in their party and they’re not listening to the American people.” 

Pelosi and Schumer requested and were granted airtime on all the major broadcast and cable news networks to provide their response to the president’s address after Trump received the same courtesy. 

Trump pressed his case on the need for a wall along the southern border, the funding for which is at the center of the ongoing partial government shutdown, which entered its 21st day on Friday.

The presidential address and Democratic response on Tuesday night were watched by more than 43 million people. 

For context, Trump’s State of the Union address last year had more than 45 million viewers, while former President Obama’s last Oval Office address, in 2014 to talk about the fight against ISIS, generated 34 million viewers.