As he nears the end of his stint as New Jersey’s governor, Politico is taking a look back on Chris Christie's political career. It’s a fine article, with plenty of quotes from New Jersey’s bully-in-chief, but there was one tidbit that caught our eye. During the 2016 election this story went viral and Chris Christie was widely mocked:
Governor Chris Christie, of New Jersey, another of Trump’s opponents early in the campaign, has transformed himself into a sort of manservant, who is constantly with Trump at events. (One Republican told me that a friend of his on the Trump campaign used Snapchat to send him a video of Christie fetching Trump’s McDonald’s order.)
Needless to say, the idea that Chris Christie was reduced to fetching McDonald’s hamburgers (which Trump is known to prefer) for Donald Trump was hilarious and of course, everyone on Twitter and beyond laughed loudly. Turns out, it wasn’t true. An aide to Donald Trump’s campaign created the fake news story with the sole purpose of humiliating New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. From Politico:
There was the time Trump told a large crowd in Christie’s home state that the governor would no longer eat Oreos. There was the time The New Yorker reported an aide saying that Trump had made Christie fetch him McDonald’s, a nugget that instantly went viral. (Sam Nunberg, a former Trump aide, told me he made up the story to embarrass Christie—and that it spread like wildfire. “The sad reality is that it was believable,” Nunberg said, chuckling.)
Nice friends y’all keep. You deserve each other. You really do.