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 Republican rival Chris Christie by posting a photo of him on Monday showing the former New Jersey governor wearing unflattering shorts.

Christie has had a dynamic debate performance, although he still ranks a distant fifth nationally. In New Hampshire, where he has focused most of his energy, he currently sits in third place.

Still, his warnings that Trump would be a “danger to this country” – as Christie said from the tree stump in the Granite State on Friday – must have irritated the ex-president, who attacked him on Instagram. and Truth Social.

“Not fit for office, mentally or physically,” Trump said in the caption of the photo.

In the photo, Christie is in an awkward pose, sporting belted khaki shorts and a white polo tucked into them.

Christie has had a strong debate performance, but Trump – pictured outside Trump Tower on Monday – is the distant frontrunner. The former governor of New Jersey is ranked fifth nationally and third in New Hampshire, where he is putting most of his energy.

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In addition, Trump highlighted two videos on X in which right-wing conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, a prominent supporter of the ex-president, targeted Christie at an event and mocked his weight.

In one video, posted by Loomer last monthshe shouts at Christie that he will never become president.

“You might have a heart attack if you eat too much, but you'll never be president,” Loomer shouted.

In another videoLoomer can be heard telling Christie, “You don't have to run for President Fata**, you need to get on a treadmill.”

“The proudest moments of my career have been opposing someone like you,” Christie told Loomer at the time.

Christie has struggled with his weight throughout his adulthood and quietly underwent gastric band surgery in February 2013.

Trump also posted the unflattering photo of Christie on Instagram on Monday. Christie is the most vehemently anti-Trump candidate who remains viable in the race even as he ranks a distant fifth nationally

Christie is by far the most vehemently anti-Trump candidate who remains viable in the race.

During Wednesday night's debate in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, the former governor of New Jersey called out Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a former UN ambassador. Nikki Haley and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy for not taking up the fight against Trump.

“I'm looking at my watch now, we're seventeen minutes into this debate and apart from your little speech at the beginning, these three have behaved as if the race is between the four of us,” Christie noted.

He condemned them for treating the 'fifth man' like the Harry Potter character Voldemort.

“He who shall not be named,” Christie said. “They don't want to talk about it.”

Christie then called Trump “unfit” – the same criticism Trump leveled at him on Monday, pointing to the ex-governor's size.

Trump himself is no stranger to controversy over his weight.

When Trump was booked into the Fulton County Jail in August on charges related to his plot to overturn the 2020 election, the ex-president said he weighed 215 pounds and was 6 feet tall, measurements that would normally reserved for a professional athlete.

Trump previously weighed 239 pounds in 2018 and 244 pounds in 2020.

Even when he weighed 239 pounds, Trump attracted skeptics known as “girthers” who believed that Dr. Ronny Jackson of the White House used weight and said Trump was 6 feet tall because he would be just under the level considered clinically obese. .