Speaking on ABC’s This Week on Sunday, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said President Donald Trump just had what he called one of his worst weeks in office.
The comments came during a roundtable discussion led by host Jonathan Karl. The panel focused on several controversies tied to Trump, including his plan to rename the Kennedy Center after himself, his reaction to the killing of Rob Reiner, and a prime-time speech that failed to shift public opinion.
Karl set the tone with a blunt question.
“Even by Trump standards, this was an erratic, chaotic week,” Karl said. “Renaming the Kennedy Center, the stuff he did at the White House, the prime-time speech. What’s going on?”
Christie responded with sarcasm before laying out his criticism.
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“Merry Christmas to you, too, Mr. President,” Christie said, tongue in cheek. “Look, this is a pretty strange week. Just think about it.”
Christie then listed the events he said defined the week.
“He sends out that disgraceful post on the murder of Rob Reiner and his wife Michele,” Christie said. “Then he puts his name on the building named after an assassinated president. Then he gives a frenetic national TV speech filled with inaccuracies, and really sounded like he was yelling at the American people that they don’t get how great he’s done so far.”
Christie also mocked plaques Trump placed beneath presidential portraits at the White House.
“And then he puts these plaques out underneath the presidential pictures he’s put on the colonnade, filled with things that you could tell just from reading that he wrote them himself,” Christie said.
Karl jumped in with a short comment.
“Read like Truth Social posts,” Karl said.
“It did,” Christie concurred.
After that exchange, Christie turned to the bigger picture.
“Look, he does all of this, Jon, in a week where 60% of the people in the country say the economy is no better under him than it was under Joe Biden,” Christie said.
He also pointed to foreign policy failures.
“The war continues to rage on in Ukraine that he said he was going to settle in 24 hours,” Christie said. “And [Vladimir] Putin continues to manipulate him to deteriorate the 80-year NATO alliance.”
Christie said Trump is also losing support inside his own party.
“And twice now, in the past month, you’ve seen Republicans break from him on Capitol Hill, on both the Epstein files and ACA subsidies, to sign discharge petitions to repute both the speaker and the president,” he said.
Christie ended with a warning.
“It’s not a strange week, Jon, it’s an awful week!” Christie added. “And the president better wake up to the fact that going to Rocky Mount, North Carolina, is not going to solve his problems, and that he better start solving the American peoples’ problems or our party is going to have a big problem come November.”
🔥THANK GOD PRESIDENT TRUMP KICKED RINO CHRIS “KRISPY KREMES” CHRISTIE OUT IF MAGA.
Sitting here bashing Trump on Reiner, The Kennedy Center, The Plaques, NATO & The Economy.
The President knows a COMPROMISED UNIPARTY ASSET when he sees one. pic.twitter.com/WK8w2Oi1U0— Johnny St.Pete (@JohnMcCloy) December 21, 2025
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