Chris Christie

“The plane. Oh, the plane is a gift. It won’t cost us anything. Well, no, it costs us hundreds of millions of dollars to get it up to Air Force One level of operation. Every time he says one of those things—the ballroom won’t cost anybody anything—now we’re talking about them wanting to move a billion dollars to work on the ballroom.”

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Christie pivoted to the Qatari-gifted plane, arguing it would cost hundreds of millions to upgrade and criticizing Trump's claims about costs.

“The American people are starting to catch up to this. You can feel it.”

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Christie closed with a warning to the president that the American people are starting to catch on to his self-enrichment.

“They believe, when they came back and won this election the second time, that that gave them license, that the American people gave them license to essentially go and take whatever they could take over this period of time. And, quite frankly, you know, when you look at the scale of this, here’s another thing apparently that Donald Trump learned from Vladimir Putin during his first term. This is Putin-esque type of corruption and self-enrichment!”

Chris Christie · said date not stated · reported 2026-07-06

Christie said Trump's family believes their election win gave them license to take what they could and called the scale of crypto profits Putin-esque corruption.

“He and his family believe they are entitled to this,”

Chris Christie · said date not stated · reported 2026-07-06

Christie compared Donald Trump's personal profits from cryptocurrency to self-enrichment associated with Vladimir Putin while speaking on ABC's This Week.