--- --- # Chris Christie Did the Ice Bucket Challenge And Here's Video Proof ## Video: It’ll Be A Cold Day: The Ice Bucket Challenge [Watch (HLS stream): It’ll Be A Cold Day: The Ice Bucket Challenge](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/GIHofBBD.m3u8) (1:33)  _Published 2014-08-11. If you’ve seen people all over your newsfeed dumping buckets of ice water on themselves, you’re not alone. The Ice Bucket Challenge is ironically one of the hottest things on social media as it tries to raise money for ALS charities._  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Aug 13, 2014 3:53 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Aug 13, 2014 3:53 PM UTC Chris Christie, New Jersey’s governor and potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate, became the latest high-profile figure to participate in the [“Ice Bucket Challenge](http://time.com/3100272/als-ice-bucket-challenge/)” Tuesday evening. That’s the Facebook trend in which people post videos of themselves getting doused with ice water, then nominate others to do the same within 24 hours or donate $100 to ALS research. In the video posted to Christie’s Facebook page, he’s seen grinning as two of his children, Patrick and Bridget, do the honors. He nominated New Jersey Senator Cory Booker (D), Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, and _Tonight Show_ host Jimmy Fallon to complete the challenge next. Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Senator Robert Kennedy, nominated President Barack Obama to do the challenge, but [a White House spokesperson said](http://time.com/3104483/obama-declines-ice-bucket-challenge/) he will just give money. Other influencers who have completed the challenge include Martha Stewart, Matt Lauer and Lance Bass. Chris Christie Does The Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS on Facebook ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3107529/chris-christie-als-ice-bucket-challenge/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3107529/chris-christie-als-ice-bucket-challenge/"},"headline":"Chris Christie Did the Ice Bucket Challenge And Here's Video Proof","datePublished":"2014-08-13T15:53:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:12:23.799Z","description":"He nominates Jimmy Fallon, Mark Zuckerberg, and Cory Booker to take the plunge next","url":"https://time.com/3107529/chris-christie-als-ice-bucket-challenge/","keywords":["Newsfeed","society"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3107529/chris-christie-als-ice-bucket-challenge/","name":"Chris Christie Did the Ice Bucket Challenge And Here's Video Proof"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"It’ll Be A Cold Day: The Ice Bucket Challenge","description":"If you’ve seen people all over your newsfeed dumping buckets of ice water on themselves, you’re not alone. The Ice Bucket Challenge is ironically one of the hottest things on social media as it tries to raise money for ALS charities.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/GIHofBBD/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-08-11T16:10:55.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/GIHofBBD.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3107529/chris-christie-als-ice-bucket-challenge/","duration":"PT1M33S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3107529/chris-christie-als-ice-bucket-challenge/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```