The day after the second GOP presidential debate, when the previous president had criticized Chris Christie for equating Donald Trump with the Disney cartoon figure Donald Duck, Christie retaliated against Trump.
“I live in his head,” Christie said to Fox News on Thursday morning.
In a notable exchange during the debate on Wednesday, Christie accused absentee candidate Trump of “ducking these things.”
If you keep doing that, nobody up here will call you Donald Trump anymore, he continued the prepared remark. They’ll refer to you as Donald Duck.
The joke didn’t work. The following day, Trump said to Fox News, “Anybody that would come up with that nickname shouldn’t be running for president.”
In spite of this, the former president, who is renowned for giving his rivals amusing nicknames, “knows what I said is true,” Christie remarked on Thursday. “That’s why he spent the majority of the debate last night reacting to what I said and attacking me,”
Trump has skipped both of his opponents’ debates as the front-runner for the GOP nomination for president. Christie again urged him to take the stage despite his significant polling deficit.
He declared, “What he ought to be doing is stepping up on the debate stage & defending his record.
And when asked if it was true that Christie, a former supporter who is now a vocal opponent of Trump, wouldn’t accept an offer to be his vice president, the former governor of New Jersey responded simply: “No chance.”