Arnold Schwarzenegger compares US Capitol mob to Nazis

Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger compared the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol to the Nazis and called President Donald Trump a failed leader who “will go down in history as the worst president ever.” 

The Republican said in a video he released on social media on Sunday that “Wednesday was the Night of Broken Glass right here in the United States.” In 1938, Nazis in Germany and Austria vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses during an attack that became known as Kristallnacht or “the Night of Broken Glass.”

“The broken glass was in the windows of the United States Capitol. But the mob did not just shatter the windows of the Capitol, they shattered the ideas we took for granted,” he said. “They trampled the very principles on which our country was founded.” View the post here.

Trump’s approach might seem new, but Arnold Schwarzenegger tried it first. It was a disaster.

The following article by Evan Halper with the L.A. Times was posted on their website January 13, 2017:

President-elect Donald Trump’s move into the Oval Office reminds many in Sacramento of the tumult Arnold Schwarzenegger faced as he went from celebrity outsider to California governor. (Thomas Samson / AFP/Getty Images)

President-elect Donald Trump may have mocked the rocky debut of successor Arnold Schwarzenegger in the faux boardroom chair of “The Celebrity Apprentice,” but as he makes his own start in the Oval Office, Trump may find he has a few things to learn from his reality TV replacement.

Long before Schwarzenegger inherited the role of firing underperformers on camera, he was the one selling voters on a pledge to fire an underperforming government. Few politicians are better acquainted than Schwarzenegger with the fickleness of an electorate that propels an outsider with an outsized personality into high office. Continue reading “Trump’s approach might seem new, but Arnold Schwarzenegger tried it first. It was a disaster.”