EXCLUSIVE: Chris Christie's beach trip makes Mad Magazine's 2017 Dumb issue

What, Chris Christie worry?

Gov. Christie will be featured in Mad Magazine’s upcoming “20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2017” issue. The magazine cites Christie’s trip to the beach after closing state parks due to a budget shutdown.

Christie and his family went to a state-owned retreat on Island Beach State Park in Berkeley during the July 4 weekend. It was deserted because of the shutdown.

“After eight years of bluster and bullying – not to mention the Bridgegate scandal and a doomed Presidential bid – New Jersey residents have learned that Governor Chris Christie is the kind of guy they wouldn’t want to hang out with, even if it was on a vast expanse of beach,” Mad Magazine said. “It’s clear that Christie no longer gives a --- about what his constituents think of him. Maybe what he needs is a long vacation, far away from the voters he’s screwed and alienated during his failed administration.”

More: ROTTINO: Christie’s day at empty beach may foreshadow future

Christe does get a whole page in the issue, illustrated by Robert Parada. It’s spoofing a Sandals resort ad. For Christie, it’s called “Scandals.”

“Exhausted from defending your indefensible actions? Take a break at … SCANDALS,” Mad said. “Enjoy the kind of privacy you can only get from closing down all state beaches! Soak up heat you haven’t experienced since the early days of Bridgegate!

Feel your stress level drop faster than your approval rating! Scandels. Because you’re a lame duck and you don’t give a ---! Abuse your power while you can! Book now!”

But first, Christie will be checking out “Springsteen on Broadway.”

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The issue, which features Donald Trump and Alfred E. Neuman playing golf in a nuclear holocaust on the cover, is online on Friday, and it hits newsstands on Tuesday, Dec. 12.

Visit www.madmagazine.com for more.

Chris Jordan: cjordan@app.com; Twitter: @chrisfhjordan

The 20 dumbest things of 2017 according to Mad are:

1. Team Trump colludes with Russians

2. Bill O’Reilly

3. United Airlines Passenger Removal

4. White Supremacist March

5. Academy Award Show Screw Up

6. Trump on Twitter

7. Sean Spicer, White House Press Secretary

8. Trump vs. Kim Jong-Un

9. Mike Pence Won’t Dine Alone with a Woman

10. Trump Bans Transgender Soldiers

11. Trump’s Muslim Travel Ban

12. Harvey Weinsten

13. Chris Christie Closes Jersey Beaches

14. Bill Maher and Kathy Griffin’s Tasteless Jokes

15. Alex Jones

16. Kyrie Irving Says the Earth is Flat

17. White House Staff Firings

18. Mad fold-in feature

19. NFL Blackballs Kaepernick

20. Trump’s Response to Puerto Rico