Chris Christie ridiculed for refusing to give up on 'old-timey' Donald Duck Trump joke

Chris Christie keeps trying to make his "Donald Duck" nickname stick to Donald Trump.

The former New Jersey governor slapped that sobriquet on the ex-president Wednesday at the second Republican presidential debate, which the GOP front-runner skipped –or ducked, as Christie said by way of explaining the nickname.

“If you keep doing that, no one up here is going to call you Donald Trump anymore," Christie said. "They’re going to call you Donald Duck.”

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The joke landed with a thud, but Christie tried to make the name stick by posting a meme of Donald Duck with Trump's distinctive hair and styling Friday.

His joke met with scorn and ridicule on X, the site formerly known as Twitter, where users responded with a slew of unflattering photos mocking Christie's weight.

"This is beneath you," said X user "Jeff," @Football_expert.

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"Christie calling Trump 'Donald Duck' is so hilariously old-timey," said comic writer Marc Deschamps. "You’re making a reference to a 100-year-old cartoon character when 'Donald Chump' was RIGHT THERE. Amazing."

"The best KFChris McChristie could come up with was Donald Duck," said the Old School Republicans account. "I don’t think an aide thought it up, it’s so dumb that it could only come from the mind of the most unpopular Governor in the history of the United States."