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Donald Trump Told Chris Christie to Lose Weight: ‘You Gotta Look Better to Be Able to Win,’ Book Claims

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Chris Christie wrote that Trump asked him to wear a longer tie to help him appear skinnier.
In his forthcoming book, former White House transition team chairman Chris Christie claimed that Donald Trump once told him he needed to lose weight in order to make strides in the political world.
Trump told Christie at a dinner in 2005, “You gotta look better to be able to win,” Christie wrote in his new book, Let Me Finish, The Guardian reported on Tuesday based on an advance copy it obtained ahead of the January 29 release date.
Christie, a former New Jersey governor, wrote that Trump addressed him as if he were a contestant in the Miss Universe pageant, a competition that the future president owned. Christie also wrote that Trump again approached him about his weight during the 2016 presidential campaign, asking him to wear a longer tie to help him appear skinnier.
Christie made an unsuccessful bid for the Republican presidential nomination and afterward, in the summer 2016, tried to become Trump’s vice presidential running mate.

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