Chris Christie (left) and Donald Trump.
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Chris Christie tore into Donald Trump after the former president poked at his weight.The former New Jersey governor scoffed at Trump ‘like he’s some Adonis.”Christie, once Trump’s ally, has made going after him a central component of his campaign.
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie brushed off Donald Trump’s taunts about his weight, pointing out that the former president and his one-time ally is no perfect picture of health either.
“Oh, like he’s some Adonis,” Christie told Fox News’ Howard Kurtz on “Media Buzz” when asked about Trump and his allies poking fun at him about his weight.
Christie added that his struggles with weight are something that he shares with “tens of millions” of other Americans. Besides, he added, Trump should really take a look in the mirror.
“You know what it is? It’s like a child, a bully on the schoolyard who teases you, makes fun of you,” Christie said. “But here’s my message to him: I don’t care. I don’t care what he says about me. I don’t care what he thinks about me. And he should take a look in the mirror every once in a while — maybe he would drop the weight thing off of his list of criticisms.”
Christie, whose endorsement of a major moment for Trump in 2016, called his former ally a “petulant child” who is unfit to be president again. Christie has made his 2024 campaign center on a full-frontal attack on Trump, something he argues some of the other Republican hopefuls are unwilling to do.
“Some of them have a strategy that goes like, Donald Trump is just gonna disappear … maybe by legal action or whatever, and I’ll just inherit his voters,” Christie said. “Some of them are just unable to do it, Howie, and some of them are afraid of him. Some of them have future aspirations beyond the presidency that they want to do.”