At Trump's insistence, Christie ordered meatloaf
Gov. Chris Christie dished on one of the more trivial yet intimate aspects of his lunch with President Trump at the White House earlier this week while guest hosting a sports-talk radio show Thursday morning.
The appearance on WFAN 660-AM’s "Boomer & Carton Show," where he is a regular, came on the heels of an appearance Wednesday night on a baseball-themed television program in New York. Getting paid to talk about sports, he told the hosts there, is “certainly one of the things that I hope I'll have a chance to consider when I get out and stop being governor.”
Trump invited Christie and his wife, Mary Pat, to join him for lunch in the White House on Valentine’s Day, prompting the question Thursday morning how one orders food in the president’s private dining room.
"This is what it's like to be with Trump,” Christie said. “He says, ‘There's the menu, you guys order whatever you want.’ And then he says, ‘Chris, you and I are going to have the meatloaf.’”
“I’m telling you, the meatloaf is fabulous,” Trump said, as Christie told it.
So Christie ordered the meatloaf.
“It’s emasculating,” host Craig Carton joked in response. “Another man tells you what you eat and you eat it? Not acceptable. I don’t care who he is.”
Mary Pat, according to Christie, ordered pumpkin ravioli. Professional tennis player and model Genie Bouchard and model Kate Bock were also in the studio to comment on the lunch.
In a ceremony Wednesday to sign a sweeping anti-addiction law, Christie said that he had met with Trump to discuss ways to fight drug abuse, among other topics that he did not specify. Questioned about whether he might be in line for a job, like drug czar or surgeon general, Christie replied, “We did not talk about any job directly related to or indirectly related to the drug issue.”
Speculation about what jobs Trump may have offered Christie in his administration, and whether Christie may join the administration in the future, has been rampant for weeks.
Of course, Christie could decide on a gig outside of politics, perhaps in the media, when his second term as governor ends in January. His name has been mentioned as a potential replacement next year for Mike Francesa, who hosts an afternoon sports-talk show on WFAN.
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