Former California governor, Austrian-American actor and bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger (73) has joined the wave of condemnation of Donald Trump (Trump, 74), calling him out for violence at the Capitol in Washington.
Schwarzenegger, in the style of the Terminator, sent a message to Trump. He called him the worst president ever.
In a seven-minute video he recorded for his YouTube channel, he compared Wednesday’s events to Crystal Night in 1938, which marked the rise of Nazi Germany.
– I grew up in Austria. I am very aware of Crystal Night. It was a night of savagery against the Jews performed in 1938 by the Nazi equivalent of “Proud Boys.” Wednesday here was “broken glass” right in the United States. The broken glass was on the windows of Capitol Hill. But the mob not only shattered the windows of the Capitol, they shattered the ideas we took for granted – the actor and politician began his post.
Schwarzenegger then told a personal story from his childhood in Austria. Born in 1947, he remembers the aftermath of World War II and the impact he had on his family.
– I have never shared it so publicly because it is a painful memory. But my father would come home drunk once or twice a week, he would scream and hit us and scare my mother. I did not consider him totally responsible because our neighbor did the same to his family – he said.
President Trump is a failed leader
He added that his experience of growing up in Europe showed him “first hand how things can get out of control”. He then condemned Trump, saying he “sought a coup by deceiving people with lies”.
“My father and our neighbors were also seduced by lies, and I know where such lies lead,” Schwarzenegger continued.
– President Trump is a failed leader. He will go down in history as the worst president ever. The good thing is that it will soon be as irrelevant as an old tweet, ”he said.
Defense of democracy
The video ended by wishing well-elected President Joe Biden (78) and encouraging all Americans to stand behind him.
“President-elect Biden, we stand with you today, tomorrow, and forever in defense of our democracy from those who would threaten it,” Schwarzenegger said.
