Donald Trump ‘Plays Checkers, Not Chess’
During an appearance on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said President Donald Trump was “playing checkers, not chess.”
Host Jon Karl said, “And all of this is happening while we have this shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, virtually no funding for anything except ICE. I mean, where is this going? What’s your feeling?”
Christie said: “Well, look, as this continues to impact airport queues. Yes. And as we get closer to this summer, when people go on vacation, you know, it’s going to have to come to a head. And, you know, when you have a 2.5 hour queue at Atlanta, the busiest airport in the country, that’s going to become a huge problem. But look what everyone is saying around the table here is an indication that the president is playing checkers, not This is a guy just looking at what jump he can make today Does it look like there’s a double jump in the other direction So you do what you do with Iran, you know, think about what’s happening with the Strait of Hormuz, you don’t think that what that’s going to force you to do with the gas prices that Donald just talked about is to ease the. sanctions against Russia and Iran, with whom you are going to war.
He added: “I mean, the American people see this stuff. And what I mean on this chart is that it’s about competence. It’s about: Are you competent to run the government and make these decisions? And every time a decision is made, another domino falls. And the president and the people around him don’t take these things into account.”
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