Actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger took to X today to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris and rebuke former President Donald Trump.
Schwarzenegger, a moderate Republican, announced that he would be “voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz” this week.
However, Schwarzenegger’s endorsement was tepid. His 700-word statement focused more on the case against Trump than support for Harris.
“The Terminator” star’s social media post was replete with negative words like “don’t,” “can’t,” “not,” and “isn’t” — which appeared 11 times in total.
Schwarzenegger criticized the state of U.S. politics today but reserved his harshest words for the Republican presidential nominee. Trump, he warned, “will divide,” “insult,” and “find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been.”
Schwarzenegger called on Americans to “close the door on this chapter of American history.” The “only way to do that,” he stated, “is with Harris and Walz.”
The bodybuilder-turned-actor endorsed former Ohio Gov. John Kasich for president in 2016. He has never joined the Trump bandwagon.
In fact, in 2021, after the January 6 Capitol riot incited by then-President Trump, the Austrian-born Schwarzenegger posted a heartfelt video that went viral in which he compared the insurrection to the 1938 Nazi Kristallnacht pogrom.
The rioters, Schwarzenegger said, “shattered the ideas we took for granted” and “trampled the very principles on which our country was founded.”
In that 2021 video, Schwarzenegger proclaimed Trump “a failed leader” and said that he would “go down in history as the worst president ever.”
However, he also prematurely predicted the end of Trump’s political career, stating that the then-outgoing president “soon will be as irrelevant as an old tweet.” Trump today is effectively tied with Harris in the presidential race, with election day less than a week away.
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