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President Trump will dine with Heidi and Ted Cruz on Wednesday night at the White House. There's, how to say this, a lot of history between that trio.

My guess is that none of this water under the bridge will be a topic of conversation. They're looking forward to a great dinner, was all White House press secretary Sean Spicer would say when asked whether Trump might apologize to the Cruzesduring the meal.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer was asked about President Trump's upcoming dinner with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and his wife Heidi, during his daily briefing on March 8 at the White House. (The Washington Post)

Apologize for what, you ask? How quickly we forget! Here's a quick review with the worst first! of the long history of awkwardness between Trump and the Texas two.

The implication, of course, was that Trump's wife, Melania Trump, was more attractive than Heidi Cruz. The spill the beans reference was about a previous Trump tweet in which the billionaire businessman threatened to do just that on Heidi Cruz. (He never specified what the beans were.) Trump insisted that the whole thing started with Cruz, who used a nude picture of Melania in an ad. (He didn't. It was an anti-Trump super PAC not affiliated with Cruz.)

Cruz, as you might expect, went bananas. He tweeted this to Trump amid the Melania-Heidi picture kerfuffle.

Cruz was really, really angry. Interviewed the day after the Trump tweet, he absolutely unloaded. He called Trump a sniveling coward and a big New York bully.

Cruz was expected to, finally, endorse Trump in a prime-time speaking slot at the Republican National Convention. And his whole speech seemed pointed to that moment right until he didn't do it.

Ted Cruz was being loudly cheered by many of the delegates at the Republican National Convention on July 20 until he urged voters to "vote their conscience." Photo by Michael Robinson-Chavez/The Washington Post (Peter Stevenson,Sarah Parnass,Jorge Ribas,Alice Li,Dalton Bennett/The Washington Post)

I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father, Cruz told the Texas delegation the following day.

His father was with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to Oswald's being you know, shot. I mean, the whole thing is ridiculous, Trump in an early May interview with Fox News Channel. What is this, right prior to his being shot, and nobody even brings it up. They don't even talk about that. That was reported, and nobody talks about it.

Cruz defended his father, noting that Trump was amoral, a pathological liar and a narcissist of the sort we'd not seen in the country before.

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz attacked rival Donald Trump in Indiana, calling him a "bully," "pathological liar" and a "serial philanderer" after Trump made comments associating Cruz's father with JFK's assassin. (The Washington Post)

The Bible held high he puts it down and then he lies.

8. Lyin' Ted

He'sa liar. I never met a liar like him.

9. Lyin' Ted

He's 'Lyin Ted', that's his name.

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Donald Trump is having dinner with Ted and Heidi Cruz. Here are nine things that might make it awkward. - Washington Post