Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie could have a “psychological drawback” concerning “dimension,” in line with ex-President Donald Trump.
Christie, a former Trump ally who turned considered one of his staunchest Republican critics following the 2020 election, formally introduced that he could be difficult Trump for the 2024 GOP nomination throughout a city corridor occasion in New Hampshire on Tuesday night time.
The previous governor argued that the U.S. was “getting smaller in each manner” as a consequence of more and more sharp political divisions throughout his announcement speech, arguing that the previous president had made the nation “smaller by dividing us.” He additionally accused Trump of being “obsessive about the mirror.”
Trump reacted to Christie’s speech in a Fact Social put up a short while later, mocking the ex-governor’s repeated use of the phrase “small” and implying that he could have critical points with “dimension.”
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“What number of occasions did Chris Christie use the phrase SMALL?” Trump wrote. “Does he have a psychological drawback with SIZE? Truly, his speech was SMALL, and never superb. It rambled everywhere, and no one had a clue of what he was speaking about.”
Christie was additionally a candidate within the 2016 GOP primaries, however dropped out and endorsed Trump after failing to realize important help from Republican voters. Trump predicted on Tuesday that the “failed” ex-governor would undergo an analogous destiny in 2024.
“Laborious to look at, boring, however that is what you get from a failed Governor (New Jersey) who left workplace with a 7% approval ranking after which obtained run out of New Hampshire,” wrote Trump. “This time, it will not be any completely different!”
The previous president’s remark about Christie’s supposed “drawback with dimension” is suggestive of repeated assaults on the ex-governor’s weight by Trump and his allies.
Trump, who’s himself overweight, shared to Fact Social in September a photograph of an chubby man leaning over a buffet and captioned the picture, “Chris Christie at a Roy Rogers at 11 PM within the night making an attempt to console himself.”
Karoline Leavitt, spokesperson for the Trump-aligned Make America Nice Once more Inc. tremendous PAC, mentioned in a tweeted assertion on Tuesday that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, the present GOP runner-up within the 2024 race, is “not prepared for this second” earlier than seemingly going after Christie’s weight.
Leavitt mentioned that Christie would “waste no time consuming DeSantis’ lunch,” prompting right-wing pundit Ben Shapiro to answer that her remark was “additionally simply relevant to lunch on the whole”—a comment that she went on to retweet.
Newsweek has reached out by way of e-mail to the Christie marketing campaign and the workplace of Trump for remark.
