Jessica Estepa

USA TODAY

The Trump-Cruz feud is so 2016.

President Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and their families had dinner on Wednesday night, and signs point to it going well. The president even got to meet Joe, the stuffed giraffe from the kindergarten class of Cruz's daughter Catherine.

"It was a social evening," Cruz told reporters on Thursday. "We had a very nice evening with the president and first lady, with Heidi and the girls. Catherine was most excited to bring Joe with her, the stuffed giraffe from her kindergarten class who every student takes home for a few days. And so Joe had a chance to have dinner with the president, which was a fun thing."

Has it really been a year since the two sparred during the GOP primary, with unkind nicknames ("Lyin' Ted") and their wives caught up in the middle? Has it really been less than eight months since Cruz refused to endorse Trump at the Republican National Convention? (To be fair, he did endorse eventually, on Facebook.)

That's all in the past now.

Cruz is the second former primary rival Trump has met with this week. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., took to Twitter to announce that, despite everything, he had even given Trump his new phone number.

Contributing: Eliza Collins