Mazel tov to New Jersey governor and combative boardwalk tough Chris Christie, who has been selected to deliver the keynote speech at Tampa’s Republican National Convention.

Christie told USA Today that the address will include “some very direct and hard truths to people in the country about the trouble that we’re in and the fact that fixing those problems is not going to be easy for any of them.” Yay? Why uplift an audience with optimistic rhetoric when you can bring their financial and/or professional problems to the very front of their minds?

Anyway, the primetime keynote role is a fine consolation prize for Christie, who evidently lost out on the greatest honor of all—recipient of the R.N.C. convention-center Wifi password—to a very, very major man.