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Friday, 3 February 2017
Schwarzenegger proposes job swap after Trump takes jab at Apprentice ratings
The former California governor, who hosts reality show, said people
could ‘sleep comfortably again’ if he replaced Trump, who asked crowd to
pray for low ratings
Arnold Schwarzenegger
has told Donald Trump that the two men should swap jobs so “people can
finally sleep comfortably again” after the US president joked about his
TV ratings at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday.
The Terminator star and former governor of California has replaced
Trump as the host of what is now called The New Celebrity Apprentice.
Before being sworn in as president last month, Trump attacked his
successor’s ratings for the first episode of the show, tweeting: “Wow,
the ratings are in and Arnold Schwarzenegger got ‘swamped’ (or
destroyed) by comparison to the ratings machine, DJT.”
During Thursday morning’s National Prayer Breakfast, an annual faith
gathering of religious leaders and members of Congress, Trump returned
to the theme:
They hired a big, big movie star, Arnold Schwarzenegger, to take my
place. And we know how that turned out. The ratings went right down the
tubes. It’s been a total disaster. And Mark [Burnett, the creator of
Apprentice] will never, ever bet against Trump again.
He then called on religious leaders to pray.
“I want to just pray for Arnold, if we can, for those ratings,” said the president.
In response, Schwarznegger took a dig at Trump in a Twitter video:
“Hey Donald, I have a great idea. Why don’t we switch jobs? You take
over TV, since you’re such an expert in ratings, and I’ll take over your
job, and then people can finally sleep comfortably again,” he declared,
raising his eyebrows at the camera.
Within 30 minutes, Schwarzenegger’s post had 10,000 retweets.
The ratings of Celebrity Apprentice have dropped this year, down 16% this week in the 18-49 age demographic, a season low.
As a Republican governor of California from 2003 to 2011,
Schwarzenegger focused much of his political career on increasing clean
energy and climate change mitigation.
Before last year’s election, he said he would not vote for Trump,
making it the first time he didn’t vote for a GOP candidate since
becoming a US citizen in 1983 after he emigrated from Austria.
The former professional bodybuilder also publicly criticized Trump’s travel ban this week, calling it “vetted badly”.
“To go and ban people who have a green card, that means that the
United States of America has given you permission to work here
permanently and you are on the way to permanent citizenship … I was in
that position … It’s crazy, it’s crazy and makes us look stupid when the
White House is ill-prepared to put this kind of executive order out
there,” he told entertainment TV host Mario Lopez on Extra.
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