Trump mocks Chris Christie by saying he is not ‘mentally of physically’ fit for office with a photo of him in shorts: Ex-president fires back at his Republican rival saying he shouldn’t be in office
Former President Donald Trump shamed his 2024 GOP challenger Chris Christie by posting a photo of him Monday showing the former New Jersey governor wearing unflattering shorts.
Christie demonstrates dynamic debate, although he remains a distant fifth in the national rankings. In New Hampshire, where he has focused most of his energy, he is now in third place.
Still, his warnings that Trump is a “danger to this country” — as Christie said from a stump in the Granite State on Friday — must have angered the ex-president, who lashed out at him on Instagram. really social.
“Unfit for work, mentally or physically,” Trump wrote in the caption of the photo.
In the photo, Christie stands awkwardly in belted khaki shorts with a white polo tucked in.
Former President Donald Trump disgraced his rival, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, in social media posts Monday, suggesting Christie could not handle the presidency “mentally or physically” and suggesting he was suffering from “TRUMP psychosis syndrome ”
Christie is performing well in debates, but Trump (pictured outside Trump Tower on Monday) is far from the frontrunner. The former New Jersey governor is ranked fifth nationally and third in New Hampshire, where he concentrates the most energy.
“We need strong people who do not suffer from a severe incurable disease, ADD, TRUMP SYNDROME!!!” Trump also suggested.
In addition, Trump highlighted two videos on X in which right-wing conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, a prominent supporter of the ex-president, trolls Christie at the event and mocks his weight.
In one video posted by Loomer last monthshe screams at Christie that he will never become president.
“Overeating may give you a heart attack, but you will never become president,” Loomer shouted.
In another videoLoomer is heard telling Christie, “You don’t need to run for president, you need to get on the treadmill.”
“The proudest moments of my career have been when I’ve had someone like you stand up to me,” Christy told Loomer at the time.
Christie has struggled with his weight throughout his adult life and quietly underwent gastric band surgery in February 2013.
Trump also posted an unflattering photo of Christie on Instagram on Monday. Christie is the most vocal anti-Trump candidate who remains viable in the race, although he ranks a distant fifth in the national polls.
Christie is by far the most vocal anti-Trump candidate who remains viable in the race.
During Wednesday night’s debate in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, the former New Jersey governor called out Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a former U.N. ambassador. Nikki Haley and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy for not speaking out against Trump.
“I look at my watch: the debate has been going on for 17 minutes, and other than your little speech at the beginning, these three are acting as if the race is between the four of us,” Christie noted.
He criticized them for treating the “fifth guy” like the Harry Potter character Voldemort.
“He who must not be named,” Christie said. “They don’t want to talk about it.”
Christie then called Trump “unfit” – the same way Trump reacted to him on Monday, pointing out the ex-governor’s girth.
Trump himself is no stranger to controversy over his weight.
In August, when Trump was booked into the Fulton County Jail on charges related to his plot to overturn the 2020 election, the former president said he weighed 215 pounds and stood six feet three inches tall, the dimensions typically associated with a professional athlete.
Trump previously weighed 239 pounds in 2018 and 244 pounds in 2020.
Even at 239 pounds, Trump attracted skeptics dubbed “pick-ups” who believed that then-White House doctor Ronny Jackson used that weight and said Trump was six feet three inches tall because he was slightly shorter than he was. considered clinically obese. .