Arnold Schwarzenegger Calls Trump 'Little Fanboy', Press Conference With Putin 'Embarrassing'
Arnold Schwarzenegger took to Twitter on Monday evening to slam Donald Trump for his "embarrassing" press conference with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland.
He started off a Twitter video by saying “President Trump, I just saw your press conference with President Putin, and it was embarrassing.”
“I was asking myself when you are going to ask him for an autograph or a selfie or something like that,” he said adding that Trump stood in front of Putin like a “little wet noodle” and a “little fanboy."
He also slammed Trump for siding with Putin on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. “You literally sold out with this press conference our intelligence community, our justice system, and, worst of all, our country. You’re the president of the United States. You shouldn’t do that. What’s the matter with you?” he said.
Referring to the strong policies former President Ronald Reagan maintained toward Russia, he said, “What happened to the strong words and the strength of Ronald Reagan when he stood there at the Berlin Wall and said 'Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall'?”
He concluded the video by asking “What happened to all that?”
The actor-turned-politician had criticized the president and his policies in the past as well. In a Facebook video in June, Schwarzenegger mocked Trump's coal policy and asked him to abandon his desire to "rescue the coal industry."
"So President Trump, I know you really want to be an action hero, right? So take it from the Terminator, you're only supposed to go back in time to protect future generations. But your administration attempts to go back in time to rescue the coal industry, which is actually a threat to future generations," he said.
While speaking against Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy, he said, "As an immigrant, I know the magnetic power of America's greatness, as a former border Governor, I know the importance of securing our border and fixing our absurdly broken immigration system. As an American, I know that kids shouldn't be pawns while the 'adults' figure it out.”
In March, the ex-California governor said he is happy that Trump had only made one trip to his state. “I don’t think that he’s been good for California, I don’t think he cares about California and I think California doesn’t care about him,” he said at the time.
During an interview with CNN in the same month, Schwarzenegger said that The Republican Party is “dying at the box office."
"The reason why I said it was because their policies were such that they were not really including everybody, so that they have everybody interested, like for instance women. A million women left within a few years because we did not address as a party health care issues. We didn't address education issues. We didn't address environmental issues,” he said. "Those were three issues that were very important to women, and we were losing them because we were not addressing those issues. So I was telling them, I said, 'Look, the way you're going by being so anti-health-care reform and being so anti-environment and stuff like this, we are losing and we're dying at the box office.”
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