Presidential candidate Chris Christie responded to former President Donald Trump’s criticism on Wednesday, calling his 2024 competitor a “juvenile” and a “baby.”
Fox News’s Bret Baier asked Christie, who served as governor of New Jersey from 2010-2018, to react to Trump’s Truth Social post made after he announced his candidacy.
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“How many times did Chris Christie use the word SMALL? Does he have a psychological problem with SIZE? Actually, his speech was SMALL, and not very good. It rambled all over the place, and nobody had a clue of what he was talking about,” Trump wrote. “Hard to watch, boring, but that’s what you get from a failed Governor (New Jersey) who left office with a 7% approval rating and then got run out of New Hampshire. This time, it won’t be any different!”
“He’s a juvenile. He’s a baby,” Christie said. “Only children talk like that.”
He then claimed that Trump had offered him several positions within his administration, pointing out the apparent change in the former president’s opinion of him. “He never said that about me when he offered me White House chief of staff,” Christie said. “He never said that about me when he offered me secretary of Homeland Security, twice. Never said that about me when he offered secretary of labor. I wasn’t any of those things then.”
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“The minute you speak out against him, Bret, you know what he does? He lashes back out like a child,” he continued. “And if you or I were raising that child, we would send them to their room, not to the White House.”
Christie, who entered the race on Tuesday, is polling at 1% among likely Republican primary voters, per Morning Consult. Trump is leading the pack with 56%. Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is the only other candidate to reach double-digit support, boasting 22%.
