President-elect Trump ridiculed former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie by sharing a meme suggesting his Republican critic’s appetite is the behind the sudden spike in drone sightings across the East Coast.
Trump posted on Truth Social what appeared to be an AI-generated image of Christie, with five drones hovering behind him, holding red McDonalds bags as the former Garden State honcho prepares to wolf down more than a half-dozen hamburgers.
“We now know the source of the drones over New Jersey,” wrote a social media user purporting to be the image’s creator.
In less than a month, there have been roughly 1000 drone sightings in New Jersey alone, according to state officials, although there have been reports from across the nation about the sudden appearance of mysterious flying objects in the airspace.
The feds, however, have said the drones sightings are actually just misidentified aircraft like helicopters or Cessna planes, and pose no danger to people on the ground.
Christie, a former Trump ally turned critic, in recent years has blamed the incoming president for everything from the spike in antisemitism and Islamophobia to “creating” Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro.
Here’s what we know about the mystery drones hovering over the East Coast
- The drones first made headlines after a medical helicopter was forced to turn around.
- The Biden administration brushed off the drones, claiming most sightings were planes and helicopters mistaken for drones.
- NJ Rep. Jeff Van Drew suggested the drones were coming from an Iranian mothership.
- The Pentagon denied the drones were from Iran or any other adversary.
- A heat map shows the staggering number of sightings over one NJ county.
- Experts say there are only a few possible explanations for the drone sightings.
- Follow along with The Post’s live updates on thedrone sightings.
Trump, meanwhile, has needled his longtime party foe over his weight and eating habits.
In 2023, as the pair vied for the GOP presidential nomination, Trump jeered to people on the campaign trail not to call Christie “a fat pig.”
Trump quipped a year earlier that an image of an obese man at a buffet he posted on Truth Social was “Chris Christie at a Roy Rogers at 11 PM in the evening trying to console himself.”