The Cons & Cons of Trump with Gov. Chris Christie
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Hey, everybody. Welcome once again to The Weekly Show. My name is Jon Stewart. It is end of January, I'm going to say, 2025. President Trump has been president forever or an hour. The confusion, the chaos, which I'm assuming is the point, has been stunning. Even for those expecting there to be this kind of, I mean, they said shock and awe. They were coming in with shock and awe, which really is not a phrase that you expect to be deployed on your own country. I was under the impression that it was the kind of thing we would deploy on countries we had hostilities with. But it turns out the hostility is with us. It's the people, the American people that are going to get the shock and awe. And I guess the most recent shock and awe is all the money. Let's just stop the money, just real quick. I'm just going to... You know what? What are we doing there? What are we paying for? Let's just... let's just stop the money real quick and just take a,
take a look at it i imagine you could just keep paying the money and take a look at it while it's happening but but i guess they wanted to stop it they don't see it in motion apparently now they've rolled back they're putting back in i guess meals on wheels and a couple other things that but you know they don't want to kill old people but the rest of us anyway this is it's it's it's a lot it's a fucking lot and uh to help us uh get through it you know uh i can talk with the home team as much as we want. I want to get some insight on somebody who really knows Donald Trump, has spoken out against Donald Trump, has also collaborated. He's done the collabs and spoken out. But let's get to him right now to hopefully get a sense of where this thing may in fact be going and what are some of the darker undertones that are behind it. So without further ado...
Governor Chris Christie, 55th governor. 55th? Yeah. Of New Jersey. Obviously ran for president 2016, 2024.
Governor, what's happening? Exactly what I predicted would happen, John. I mean, you know, I ran for president for a year telling everybody that, you know, this guy has not changed. He's not different. And that character matters. And it matters more than any particular issue. And what we're seeing now in the first, you know, is it now 10 days or so?
Years. I believe years.
Is that, you know, the problem is going to be that not everybody, in fact, not most people will disagree with everything he does. But the underlying problem, in my view, is the pettiness, the vindictiveness, the anger, all those things will inform much of what he does. And it's going to lead to big problems, I think, in the country over the long term.
So why, you know... You've known this about him. How long have you known him for? Many, many years. 23 years. 23 years. Okay. I don't imagine that the pettiness, vindictiveness and anger and those various things that you talk about in terms of character just recently surfaced. That he went through some sort of midlife crisis and ended up With some personality tics that old people get. We've known this for a very long time. And by the way, you were one of his. Boy, he enjoyed making fun of you, right? Oh, yeah. Still does. But in 2016, you helped him. You helped him in the debates and all that. What is it? That keeps people in the orbit. Is it a fear that you will lose your political career if you go against him? Is it a close to power? He makes people supplicants.
How? Well, I think that for different people, it's different things, John. I think both of those factors that you just put up there are the real reasons for lots of different people. For me, back in 2016, I had known him, but not extraordinarily well. I'd known him for a long time, but nobody really gets very close to Trump. But when you are an acquaintance of his,
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