Report: Chris Christie Fetched Trump’s McDonald’s Order
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, accompanied by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, left, takes questions from members of the media during a news conference on Super Tuesday in Palm Beach, Fla., on March 1st, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
The New Yorker has a fascinating article this week on the Republican Party’s Donald Trump dilemma: What should Republicans do about the outsider who has captured their party’s presidential nomination this year?
For the most part, they’ve fallen in line. Even John McCain — who Trump mocked for being a prisoner of war — has fallen in line and endorsed Trump. The only holdouts are the Bush family, basically. But the article also contains an anecdote about Chris Christie — Trump’s top surrogate on the campaign trail — that is too good not to share.
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.)
This raises several questions, which I shall elaborate on below:
- They were at McDonald’s? Isn’t part of Trump’s appeal that he is a super-rich guy who only enjoys the finest things in life? McDonald’s isn’t even the best fast food restaurant.
- “A sort of manservant” is an excellent phrasing, Ryan Lizza of The New Yorker.
- And it’s not really just a joke! Who can forget when Trump told Christie to “get on the plane” or Christie’s face when he stood behind Trump or the fact that he had to say “No, I wasn’t being held hostage” at a Trump election-night event?
- You can save on Snapchat, right? If anyone has video of this, please release it to the public.
- Again: McDonald’s?
This is only the beginning. We have five more months of hilarious Chris Christie stories to look forward to.
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