Schwarzenegger calculates: Trump is "worst president of all time"

Schwarzenegger does the accounting
Trump is "worst president of all time"

The storm on the Capitol is going too far for Arnold Schwarzenegger. The former governor of California addresses his fellow American citizens with a speech. In it he gives the US president a miserable testimony – and draws parallels to the 1938 Jewish program in Germany.

After the storm on the Capitol, Arnold Schwarzenegger called on the Americans in a message on Twitter to overcome the division of the country. In a speech "to my fellow Americans and friends around the world," the former action actor and ex-California governor said, "We have to heal together from the drama that just happened. We have to as Americans heal."

President Donald Trump attempted a coup "by misleading people with lies," said the 73-year-old. "President Trump is a failed leader. He will go down in history as the worst president ever." But America will overcome these dark days and come back stronger, "because we now understand what we have to lose". If President-elect Joe Biden is successful, "the nation will be successful," said Schwarzenegger, who, like Trump, is a member of the Republican Party.

Schwarzenegger, who was born in Austria, drew parallels between the storming of the Capitol in Washington and the Jewish pogrom in Germany in 1938 on the "Kristallnacht", the "night of the broken glass", as he said. "Wednesday was glass broken day here in the US." Supporters of President Donald Trump demonstrated on Wednesday in the political center of Washington against the certification of the presidential election results. Some forcibly entered the Capitol.

Schwarzenegger said the mob not only broke the windows, "they broke the ideas we took for granted. They trampled on the principles on which our country was founded". Schwarzenegger was nevertheless optimistic. In "Bild am Sonntag" he said that staying power was one of the things he loved about the USA. "Whenever you think that's it, the Americans get up again. Like a phoenix from the ashes." According to Schwarzenegger, Trump's behavior cannot be explained by his own account: "I spent time with Donald. I have never seen him as he is now."

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