Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) made several bizarre statements during an interview this week, slamming Christians who write, "Christ is king" online and asserting Jewish people are God's "chosen people" while Christians are not.

"I'm really troubled by how the phrase 'Christ is king' is being used. Look, I agree with the statement Christ is king. Although, it is being used online in a way that is meant to say, 'Screw you Jew.' It is being used in a context very directly to say, 'I hate Jews.' It's almost an online code word. Christ is king is I hate the Jews," he said.

"Look, Jesus was a Jew," the senator went on. "And, by the way, the twisted theology that says Jews are Christ killers, that's been used to justify antisemitism, to justify persecution and murders."

Cruz continued to say that Jesus chose to go to the cross and it was not the Jews that killed him, but the sins of mankind.

He also noted it was technically the Romans who nailed Jesus to the cross and crucified him, saying, "I don't see anyone being angry at the Italians."

"Christ is king is a phrase that seems to have originated online and it's some of kind of the groyper folks that it almost sort of invokes images of the crusade that in the name of Jesus we will conquer everyone else in a way that I don't think is right or biblical," the Texas senator stated.

Later, Cruz attacked journalist Tucker Carlson for promoting "the notion that the promises in the Bible that God makes to Israel are no longer valid," saying, "The Jews are no longer God's chosen people and instead, replacement theology argues that the Christian church has replaced Israel and the Jews as God's chosen people and all the promises in the Old Testament are now invalid."

"I think that is absolutely wrong. If God breaks his promises to the people of Israel, that suggests that God could break his promises to Christians as well and I don't believe God breaks his promises," Cruz said.