Four MORE times Christie, Trump said the other’s not ‘suited to be president’

Friday, when New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced he was endorsing Donald Trump for president, we told you about plenty of times the two — who've described each other as friends — suggested the other wasn't fit to lead.

It's a tonal about-face for Christie, who in the endorsement said Trump "will do exactly what needs to be done to make America a leader around the world again."

That's a bit of a shift from Christie's comments in August that "Donald’s a great guy and a good person. But I just don’t think that he’s suited to be president of the United States. I don’t think his temperament is suited for that and I don’t think his experience is.”

For all of the comments we found — fairly quickly — in which the two suggested the other shouldn't lead, we missed a few. He's a handful more that didn't make it into our earlier piece.

'Deeply troubled' New Jersey

Christie and Trump largely went easy on each other in the first few months of their campaigns. But as Christie's poll numbers (temporarily) started to surge in New Hampshire, where the governor spent in excess of 70 days in 2015, Trump struck back:

That was after the influential Union-Leader gave Christie its endorsement. The paper that backed Christie also wrote that Trump insults New Hampshire residents' intelligence, and compared him to the megalomaniacal adult bully "Biff" from "Back to the Future" (incidentally, the screenwriter says Trump was the character's inspiration).

Trump called the paper's publisher a "lowlife" in return.

Another side note on that whole affair: The publisher, Joe McQuaid, told Politico Friday Christie swore he'd never endorse Trump.

'Hurts the credibility of the presidency'

At a January campaign stop in Keene, N.H.'s Lindy's Diner, Christie, enjoying a milkshake, said Trump's "great line" about building a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, and forcing Mexico to pay for it, was an unsupportable – and damaging – one.

"When you do that, it hurts the credibility of the presidency," Christie said, according to a report by CNBC.

"I don't think it would be in the best interests of our party to have someone I don't think would be an effective president as the nominee," Christie said. "That's why I'm running."

New Jersey a 'disaster state'

At a campaign appearance in late December, Trump questioned why New Hampshire voters would want to vote for Christie, who he said couldn't win re-election in New Jersey given his current ratings.

"You know the people in New Jersey want to throw him out of office," Trump said.

"You're feeling my pain"

In a January campaign appearance in Iowa, Christie said he couldn't imagine Iowans would want to support Trump.

"It is almost impossible for me to believe that Iowans — Iowans — are going to give Donald Trump the Iowa caucus," Christie said, according to reports at the time. "I see the polls. I know, I've seen them, but I just have an impossible time believing" he'd win.

One person attending the event, Gary Swanson, said he and his wife started off as Trump supporters, but were put off when "Trump said he could shoot someone in the street and not lose a single voter. But he lost two right then and there."

"I can't imagine that man as president of the United States, with all the outrageous things that he has come up with," Swanson said, according to the report. "It's just unbelievable."

"Yeah, you're feeling my pain right now," Christie said.

Bonus: Trump wrong on Muslims, Christie 'weak' in response

In this example, the two didn't exactly say the other shouldn't be president — but they made it pretty clear how far apart they were on one of Trump's most notable comments of the campaign.

Remember all the controversy over Trump's assertions that he saw, on television, thousands of Muslims celebrating in the streets of Jersey City after Sept. 11, 2001 (assertions that were widely debunked, although there was footage of Muslims celebrating overseas in Palestinian territories, and unconfirmed reports of smaller groups, including one from a police officer)?

Christie's initial refutation of Trump's comments didn't sound absolute: “I think if it had happened I would remember it, but there could be things I forget too," the governor said.

But a week later, he put much more force behind those comments (and said his earlier remarks were never meant to hedge):

“The fact is, people can say whatever they like,” Christie said. “But the facts are the facts, and that did not happen in New Jersey that day, and it hasn’t happened since.”

Here's what Trump had to say in response:

Bonus: 'The difference between someone who has experience protecting America and someone who doesn't'

We did mention this one in Friday's piece, but it's always better to hear it from the source's own mouth. Here's what Christie had to say on December's installment of "Ask The Governor" about Trump's proposal to ban all Muslims from entering America.