Trump's infantile fat-shaming post is cut off here because embedding a Trump Truth Social video post in full, in my experience, has always been a technological impossibility. I can't imagine why, except that former U.S. representative and full-time stumblebum Devin Nunes is CEO of the Trump Media & Technology Group.
"... from a failed governor," continued the failed president.
The best part of Trump's fulminations came in his famous, feigned cluelessness: "nobody had a clue of what [Christie] was talking about." In fact, a few onlookers did. And The Bulwark rounded up a few of Christie's quite comprehensible remarks.
The Grift
"Let me tell you something, everybody. The grift from this is breathtaking. It’s breathtaking. Jared Kushner and Ivanka Kushner walk out of the White House and months later get $2 billion from the Saudis? Two billion dollars from the Saudis. You think it’s ’cause some kind of investing genius? Or do you think it’s because he was sitting next to the president of the United States for four years doing favors for the Saudis?"
Retribution?
"If you think he wants to be your retribution, forget it. He's going to be retribution for one person and one person only himself."
Trump ending the war in 24 hours?
"Let me tell you how he would. He'd give Ukraine to Russia...He'd call Zelenskyy and say, 'Hey, guess what? Time to raise the Russian flag up on the pole. We're out of here.'"
Trump’s fiscal record
"He left with the biggest deficit of any president in American history. He said he was going to eliminate the national debt in 8 years. He added $3 trillion to the national debt in 4 years."
Actually, Chris, it was $7.8 trillion.
The Bulwark's Charlie Sykes added that "Donald Trump is never going to get on a debate stage with Chris Christie." So Christie "is going to have to find a different way to punch back" against the toddler's taunts. The decision, to debate or not to debate, is of course up to Trump. But Christie's involvement in the debates, assuming he makes the cut by then — and he probably will — is not up to Trump.
So to Sykes's observation I'll add, Never say say never. The matchup depends entirely on how far Trump has slipped in the polls by debate time. That he will have slipped, and by rather significant margins, I would bet on. All those indictments, you know.