New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) denied that his wife rolled her eyes at Donald Trump’s remarks about “playing the woman’s card” during his Tuesday night victory speech, accusing the press of being “obsessed with stupid stuff.”
“Being the recipient of more eye rolls from my wife than any human being on earth, that was not an eye roll,” Christie told reporters Thursday at an event in Lawrenceville, according to NJ.com.
Twitter lit up on Tuesday night after Trump said that Democratic rival Hillary Clinton was “playing the woman’s card” and wouldn’t “get 5 percent of the vote” if she were a man. Christie and his wife, Mary Pat, were flanking the GOP frontrunner during his televised address at Trump Tower. Mary Pat Christie looked from side to side and at the floor before giving what appeared to be a pained smile at Trump’s comments.
Christie dismissed this read as “all silliness” while talking to reporters on Thursday, insisting again that it “was not an eye roll.”
“You people are obsessed with stupid stuff,” Christie said, as quoted by NJ.com. “You all should just move on to something else. The whole group of you asking about this, you should be working at TMZ for God’s sake.”
“You all are seeing what you want to see because you all were rolling your eyes at what he said, and you want someone else to agree with you — Mary Pat does not agree,” the New Jersey governor added.
Christie himself became the target of mockery shortly after endorsing the GOP frontrunner, when he appeared to stand stone-faced beside Trump during his Super Tuesday victory speech. Observers joked that Christie looked like he’d been taken hostage by the Trump campaign.
