Beached Boy: Meme King NJ Gov. Chris Christie Complains That ‘Beachgate’ Hurt His Children

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Thursday that the ‘Beachgate’ scandal last month in which he was photographed on a public beach that he himself had closed as part of a government shut down — an event that turned Christie into a viral meme — “hurt” his children.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Why do New Jersey residents dislike Chris Christie so much? Because he’s an elite, whining crybaby who cannot take responsibility for his ridiculous actions. When his own kids came to him, rightly knowing that the entire Christie family is responsible for causing ‘Beachgate’, he deflected and blamed social media meme makers. (Note To self: if you’re going to close the beaches on the 4th of July, don’t get photographed sunning your massive frame on the beach in a too-small beach chair. This is not rocket science.)

“They were more hurt by this latest episode than they’ve been hurt by anything else that has happened in the eight years and they don’t understand people’s unfairness and, quite frankly, their ignorance,” an apparently unrepentant Christie said during a New Jersey radio show, according to NJ.com.

Christie had closed all public beaches and parks for the Fourth of July weekend after the state legislature was unable to reach a budget agreement. However, his tough stance backfired spectacularly when the governor and his family were pictured sunning themselves on a public beach outside the governor’s residence by a helicopter rented out by NJ Advance Media.

Christie was widely criticized for his tone-deaf move, and to make matters worse, the image of Christie in a t-shirt and baseball cap, sunning himself in a deckchair, quickly became a viral sensation — with keen Photoshoppers placing the relaxing governor in a wide range of unlikely spots.

Funniest one so far!@GovChristie #BeachGate pic.twitter.com/aWIVU6sqOY

— Shelly🙋🏻shamefully (@shellbell_xo) July 13, 2017

Life is like a few too many boxes of chocolate. #beachgate #chrischristie pic.twitter.com/bzLUdOrWVb

— Russ Alberts (@yournameisruss) July 3, 2017

But Christie said his children blamed themselves, and he had to correct them to remind them they weren’t to blame for his political faux pas.

“They came to me and said, ‘It’s our fault, we should have just told you that we would have just told all of our friends to go away.’ And I said to them, no, this was my decision. You’re not the adult. I am,” he said.

Christie was once one of the Republican Party’s rising stars, winning in a deep blue state and then winning re-election. But a series of gaffes at home and on the national stage, as well as the 2013 ‘Bridgegate’ scandal in which members of his staff closed lanes on the George Washington Bridge to hurt a political rival, has sent his popularity plunging to historic lows — almost certainly guaranteeing a Democrat will replace him when his term is up in 2018. source

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