President-elect Donald Trump has brutally harassed former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie with a meme about drone sightings over his home state.
Trump shared an apparent AI-generated image of Christie eating McDonald’s, with drones in the background carrying bags from the fast food chain.
His post, which was posted on his Truth Social platform and X, comes after widespread reports of drones in the skies over multiple states, including The Garden State.
Christie, who was running to become the Republican Party’s presidential candidate, has remained silent about the drone sightings over his state and has not commented on them.
A wave of footage of the drones has emerged since they were first spotted last month, and this week some of the clearest video footage is emerging in New Jersey.
Video taken at shows in Somerset County three ‘mysterious drones in the sky’, two of which move extremely close as if interacting with each other.
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy said the drones are “very advanced” and explained: “As soon as we spot them [the drones]they become dark.”
“I don’t blame people for being frustrated,” Governor Murphy continued, adding that he had spent most of last Sunday coordinating the issue with both the White House and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in hopes of getting answers to get.
Trump shared an apparent AI-generated image of Christie eating McDonald’s, with drones in the background carrying bags from the fast food chain
His message, posted on his Truth Social platform, comes after widespread reports of drones in the skies over multiple states, including The Garden State
Christie has been quiet about the drone sightings over his state and has not commented on them until now
New York Governor Kathy Hochul also denounced the Biden administration’s bumbling response to the crisis, telling the White House that the bizarre episode has “gone too far.”
The Democrat spoke out after the drones forced Stewart Airfield to close its airspace for more than an hour on Friday, releasing a statement saying the FBI “must intervene.”
Hochul’s call comes after New York Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer and New Jersey Senators Cory Booker and Andy Kim sent a letter to the FBI, the FAA and Homeland Security asking for clarity on the situation.
The letter urged an urgent briefing as lawmakers, all Democrats, called on Biden to address the situation and reveal the mysterious source of the drones.
They noted that “communities in the New York City area and northern New Jersey have reported several incidents of attributable drone sightings at night since late November, alarming both residents and local law enforcement.”
“The potential safety and security risks posed by these drones in civilian areas are especially relevant given recent drone incursions on sensitive military sites in and outside the continental United States over the past year,” the letter said.
The Biden administration has maintained that the drones do not pose a threat to public safety and do not pose a threat to the security of the country.
A wave of footage of the drones has emerged since they were first spotted last month
Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey went to X to share his own story about the drones after going out at night with local police to observe the UFOs.
“We were driving to Round Valley Reservoir and the officer pointed to lights moving low over the tree line. Sometimes they were solid white light, others flashed red and green,” Kim wrote in a thread with multiple videos of the drones.
While some say the drones are likely just planes and helicopters, Kim dismissed this theory, saying his group used a flight tracker to note where the tracked aircraft was.
“We often saw about five to seven lights at a time that were low and not associated with any aircraft that we could see on the tracker app,” he continued. “Some floated while others moved along the horizon.”
Kim said police told him they saw the drones every evening, and that they only seemed to emerge after dark and were gone before dawn.
Anger on Capitol Hill reached a fever pitch after John Kirby, the White House National Security Communications Advisor, insisted the public had nothing to fear but admitted officials were still struggling to confirm some reports.
More than 3,000 reports of drones have been spotted on the East Coast in recent weeks, with officials admitting they are unsure of their origins. Pictured: About nine of the drones flying from the Atlantic Ocean on December 5
The FBI has received more than 3,000 tips since the first sighting on November 18, with reports of varying levels of credibility surfacing in at least twelve New Jersey counties, as well as eastern Pennsylvania and Orange County, New York.
As hysteria began to spread across the country, Trump called for more transparency.
He demanded that the drones flying over several US states be shot down by the Biden White House after days of mysterious sightings in the skies.
Trump did not directly address the observations about his club, but urged action from Joe Biden and the administration in a Truth Social post on Friday.
This was rejected by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who said the government does not have the authority to neutralize the drones.
Mayorkas echoed previous comments from Kirby, suggesting that some of the reports could be cases of mistaken identity involving manned aircraft.
Trump is known for taking shots at Christie with the two trade blows during their presidential candidate campaigns.
During a campaign stop in New Jersey earlier this year, he told his supporters, “Christie, he’s eating right now. He doesn’t care.’