Chris Christie

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The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart · The Cons & Cons of Trump with Gov. Chris Christie · 30 Jan 2025 podcast

So this is all just a fucking episode of The Apprentice? It's all a TV show.

It's all a TV show, John. Look, John, what have you heard him say about the way he makes selections for positions?

The greatest compliment he feels like he can give to anyone, which he said about Pete Hegseth, for instance, was he's out of central casting. And so for anybody to think that this is anything other than that, but with real-life ramifications, has not watched him over this period of time. Now... There will be things that he will do that I will agree with philosophically.

But the problem for me is I cannot rationalize away the character mistakes, the pettiness, the vindictiveness, and all the rest of it by saying, yeah, but I agree with him on what he's doing on fill in the blank, whatever it might be. And that's where you have a lot of Republicans right now are rationalizing it that way. Well, I agree with this, but I don't like him.

And I disagree with him personally, but I feel like I agree with many of his policies, so I'll be with him. The problem is that he does things like this, pulls the security detail from Mike Pompeo. Now, that is nothing but pettiness and vindictiveness colored with absolute mortal danger.

Here's Pompeo as CIA director and secretary of state who executes an order from the commander in chief in alignment with our system and gets Soleimani assassinated. The Iranians now say we're going to kill Pompeo and a couple of other folks too, John Bolton, Brian Hook. And as a result, the intelligence community says we need to give these guys security.

Because they didn't jump through hoops to support Donald Trump, he's now pulled it and said, hey, they have money. They can buy their own security. Well, that may or may not be true. I don't know the financial circumstances of those three guys. But what I will tell you is having had public security and private security, public security is much better. Because they have access to intelligence.

They have access to information that private security guys just don't have. To me... That's the essence of the problem here, is that no matter what he may do from a policy perspective that you agree or disagree with, he will always revert back to pettiness, vindictiveness.

First off, I'd say they overplayed and over litigated the character things on Trump, especially in the 24 campaign. Um, The people who were not going to vote for Donald Trump on the character issues already determined they're not going to vote for Donald Trump. The people that the Democrats had to persuade were the people you and I were just talking about who said like, look, I get that.

But the government sucks and you guys are running it and it sucks. And what's your answer to that? And neither Biden nor Harris during this last cycle had an answer to that, nor did Chuck Schumer, nor did any of the rest of them because their answer to all that was, yeah, but Trump will be worse. Well, you know what they figured out? People went, eh, maybe not.

Because you guys aren't giving me an alternative. And I think that the problem is that there is two things going on inside the Democratic Party. There is an unresolved conflict within the Democratic Party from the very progressive wing of the party to the more traditional Democrats about who's going to run the show and who's going to write the playbook. They haven't resolved that problem.

And they all papered it over. And you've got to have the fight inside the Democratic Party to what is it that we stand for governmentally? What do we believe in? What would we do for people to deal with that disconnect and the discontent that's going on? They haven't answered those questions.

You're right. They don't right now. And that's the problem with having gone back to Biden. Going back to Biden in 20 was a reaction to Trump. It was like, okay, he's the guy who will be least offensive and will make Trump the focus. But he won. I mean... Well, but won what? Then he came in. The presidency. Right, but no, but John, this is what I mean. Like...

When he got there, he started to go much more progressive than he had talked about during the campaign.

Let me finish the thought. All right. It was cognitively dissonant for people. They didn't believe that's who Biden was either outside the party or inside the party. So he got the worst of both worlds. The people inside the party who were progressive never trusted him. They didn't think he was one of them. The people outside the party who were more moderate said, son of a bitch. He lied to us.

He is a progressive. He got absolutely sandwiched politically and now no one knew who he was. And the worst thing in politics to be John is to be perceived to be inauthentic and Trump's power. is that people believe what he believes, what he says.

Correct. I totally agree that he is a transactional speaker, right? Whatever gets him, you know, the old song, whatever gets you through the night. For Trump, that's the way he speaks all the time. Whatever gets him through this moment. But my point on the Democrats is they were in the worst possible space they could be.

They didn't have a game plan, as you mentioned, an offering to the American people substantively, and they were viewed as inauthentic. Well, shit, what's going to happen then? People want common sense. They want a common sense articulated alternative to what they're being presented with. And in the absence of one, They'll vote for the group that they think looks most authentic.

Now, the challenge for Republicans to not make it seem like it's going to be all like hearts and flowers and it's going to be easy. When you've got a three or four vote majority in the House, two right now, everybody's a king. And whatever's happening right now, remember, it's all been executive orders. Not a thing has happened through Congress. He's basically nullified them. Right, at the moment.

But he's not going to be able to do that on the tax law. He's not going to be able to do that on real substantive changes to immigration.

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