During his recent interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, an interview that sucked the air out of the GOP debate and gave Trump a chance to go through his plans for what he will do if he wins the presidency without the usual sort of badgering and interference he gets from the mainstream media and corporate press, Trump managed to sneak in a few characteristically funny moments.
One was when he and Tucker took turns poking fun at former Fox News Channel host Christ Wallace, who Tucker said he was not friends with and Trump skewered as being a bad imitation of his father, Mike Wallace.
Another was when Trump tore into Chris Christie and Asa Hutchinson, both of whom pledged during the GOP debate that they wouldn’t support Trump as the nominee if he was convicted of a crime but also the GOP nominee.
Speaking about Asa Hutchinson, the former Arkansas governor who vetoed a bill which would have prohibited “gender-affirming care” for minors, Trump said, “Well, I don’t want to really use names, but it wouldn’t matter too much — a guy, I call him Ada Hutchinson. It’s Asa but I call him Ada.” Trump did not explain why he calls him Ada, but the likely intent was to demean the weak, former governor by calling him the wrong name.
Continuing, Trump shredded the RINOf former governor, calling him “weak and pathetic.” Trump said: “He’s a weak and pathetic and he was — I never understood the guy. … He was the governor of Arkansas. Not a very popular guy.”
Trump then turned from Asa Hutchinson, the sheep in sheep’s clothing, to Chris Christie, who he described as being nasty. Trump said, “He’s nasty always has been.” Continuing, Trump hammered Christie, saying that he’s unpopular with everyone and is only running so he has an opportunity to attack Trump.
Explaining that, Trump called him a “lunatic” and “savage maniac,” and said, “A guy like Chris Christie, the guy left with an 8% — think of it — an 8 percent approval rating in New Jersey. Now he’s running for president. And he runs solely on the basis ‘oh, let’s get Trump.‘”
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Continuing, Trump explains that Christie is acting like a jilted ex-lover, feeling “hurt and betrayed” because he wasn’t trustworthy enough to get a job in the first Trump Administration. He said, speaking about Christie, “I’ve been friendly with him over the years, but I couldn’t give him a job because I just never trusted him very much.”
Trump. continuing on that point of view, also said that he would make better personnel decisions this time, saying, “Before I didn’t know Washington. But guys like Bill Barr were terrible. I mean, they were. I would say Bushies. I say that with respect to the Bush family, but they were Bushies, and it just didn’t work out for us.”
Watch the interview here:
Ep. 19 Debate Night with Donald J Trump pic.twitter.com/ayPfII48CO
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) August 24, 2023
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