This OpEd in today’s Washington Post reminded me of the very first story (aka diary), Too bad the Republicans can’t nominate The Trumpinator which I posted on Daily Kos. You can read a summary of the Schwarzenegger OpEd in The Guardian here.
While most of Schwarzenegger’s OpEd addresses Trump’s climate change denial there’s no doubt about what he feels about the president as evidenced by his introductory paragraphs (my emphasis).
California has been a leader in the fight to clean our air since one of my heroes, Ronald Reagan, was our governor.
The Trump administration, for some reason, is hellbent on reversing decades of history and progress. Whether it is political pettiness, shortsightedness or just plain jealousy, I couldn’t tell you.
I can tell you that it’s wrong. It’s un-American. And it’s an affront to long-standing conservative principles.
Let’s hope we will hear more from this Republican celebrity.
Here’s what I wrote in March of 2016:
Can you imagine him debating Trump today? Here’s what I wrote on March 23, 2016
Too bad the Republicans can’t nominate the Trumpinator. Just think, were it not for two words in Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution, Republican and former Mr. Universe, two term governor of our largest state, world renown movie star, and the man selected to replace Donald Trump as host of “Celebrity Apprentice" Arnold Schwarzenegger could be running for president. Take out the words “natural born” from our Constitution and it could have happened.
Adding to his appeal is the fact that Arnold has actually governed; but he also fathered a child with the family housekeeper showing he is truly a man of the people as opposed to Trump who only has had affairs with supermodels.
Of course Trump couldn’t discredit him with the birther attack, and even if he could, who would care since Austria last I knew was a mostly white country.
I can visualize a debate where one candidate is a real actor, one who can effect an ominous presence and a voice that would prompt urinary incontinence in his competition.
I can hear in my head Schwarzenegger saying things like “whose finger do you want on the nuclear button, mine or one of these guys” or for that matter, “who do you really want going mano a mano with Putin, tiny fingers Donald, sweaty Cruz, or Conan the Destroyer?"
Finally, can you imagine Trump trying to stand on the same stage with him and try to dismiss his candidacy by calling him little Arnold?
I wonder if the Terminator ever thinks about all this.