New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie may be joining the Trump administration after all.

The governor and early Trump ally has been telling friends and staff he is taking an administration gig, according to reporting from the New York Post.

'Trump told him to be patient,' the Post's source said. 'Christie will only take something where he is answerable to the president.'

However, White House officials are shooting down the Post's reporting, with a Trump aide telling Axios that it's '100 percent wrong.'

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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (center) visited with the new president in Washington this week and talked about the opioid epidemic. He's pictured with Press Secretary Sean Spicer (left) and his wife Marty Pat (right)

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, photographed at President Donald Trump's inauguration, said in November he planned to finish out his term. But now there's new chatter he might join the administration in some capacity

'The Christie chatter is, as always, generated by Christieland,' the source told Axios.

Mike DuHaime, a Christie adviser, also told Axios that the reporting was 'absolutely not true.'

And then there's the part where Christie vowed to stay in office through his term, which doesn't end for another 11 months.

In November at an event at the New Jersey Capitol, Christie said: 'I'm completing my term.'

He did offer a caveat, however.

'Now, I will tell you that if something extraordinary happens in the world where my service is needed, I will consider any requests that are made,' he said then. 'That's not being equivocal about it. That's understanding what the real world is. But I want you to all take a deep breath and relax.'

Trump met with Christie and his wife Mary Pat at the White House this week.

Memorably, the new president told the governor they were ordering meatloaf.

'This is what it's like to be with Trump,' Christie said after the experience when he was co-hosting a New York sports radio show. 'He says, "There's the menu, you guys order whatever you want." And then he says, "Chris, you and I are going to have the meatloaf."'

Christie said the president found the White House meatloaf to be 'fabulous.'

During their meeting, the president and governor discussed the opioid epidemic, which could be the genesis for the job chatter.

Axios is reporting that the the White House is thinking of putting together a drug task force, in order to deal with the nation's drug problem, a 'big scourge in Trump country,' Mike Allen pointed out.

'There is some preliminary talk of [Christie] participating in [and perhaps chairing] an independent outside "opioids task force" along with many others while he remains governor,' a White House aide told Axios.