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Christie: When You Go Out To Dinner With Trump ‘It’s An Exhausting Experience’ [VIDEO]

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According to Chris Christie, going to dinner with Donald Trump is an ordeal, “when you go out to dinner with Donald Trump, which I’ve done on a number of occasions, it’s an exhausting experience.”

Christie, appearing on “Morning Joe” Monday, stated that Trump speaks in a “stream of consciousness,” which leads to statements like, “‘You know, you know what I’m really good at that nobody writes about? What I’m really good at, military. I’m good at that. I’m a tough guy, right, right?’ And everybody cheers.”

Christie commented, “Well, okay, I don’t know exactly what that means but what people are relating to is the fact they don’t like what’s going on in Washington right now.”

Joe Scarborough: You’re talking about Donald right now. They see a guy that is punching back.

Chris Christie:  Listen, they see somebody who has never been any part of it. I think that’s more of it than anything else. Because you listen to some of the things Donald says sometimes and think people don’t really, aren’t really hearing that. I mean, I was watching him the other night on Friday night when I got to Iowa and he’s just kind of stream of consciousness talking and he says, “You know, you know what I’m really good at that nobody writes about? What I’m really good at, military. I’m good at that. I’m a tough guy, right, right?” And everybody cheers. Well, okay, I don’t know exactly what that means but what people are relating to is the fact they don’t like what’s going on in Washington right now. They hate it. They don’t like this president and what he’s done, they don’t like Congress and what they’re about and it’s about both parties. So that’s what they don’t like. I think it’s less about him than it is about the situation.

Scarborough: You’ve dealt with him through the years, right?

Christie: I’ve been friends with Donald for 13 years.

Scarborough: He’s a fun guy.

Christie: Listen, when you go out to dinner with Donald Trump, which I’ve done on a number of occasions, it’s an exhausting experience. Right? It is. I mean that in the nicest way.

Scarborough: What people don’t know about Donald is, and this is what Hillary said, they went to his wedding because he’s fun. But it’s just like — it is stream of consciousness. And they go, ‘Oh, by the way, this reminds me, these are the same type of chick peas that we have over in Scotland at my course, greatest course in the world.’

Christie: Fabulous.

Scarborough: And it is stream of consciousness. But you leave there with a smile on your face because he is, he is charged up.

Christie: And exhausted.

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