Arnold Schwarzenegger has been a long-standing critic of Donald Trump, but he has a bit of advice for the president following the violence that took place in Charlottesville, Va. last weekend.
Earlier this week Trump held a press conference about infrastructure from Trump Tower, which turned into a back-and-forth between the media and the president about Charlottesville. During the gaggle, Trump condemned both the white supremacists and neo-Nazis as well as the Antifa protesters on the other side.
“There are no two sides to bigotry and there are no two sides to hatred. And if you choose to march with a flag that symbolizes the slaughter of millions of people, there are no two sides to that,” Schwarzenegger began in a video posted to his ATTN: video series.
“The only way to beat the loud, angry voice of hate is to meet them with louder, more reasonable voices,” Schwarzenegger continued.
“That includes you, President Trump. In fact, as President of this great country, you have a moral responsibility to send an unequivocal message that you won’t stand for hate and racism.”
Schwarzenegger then delivered a speech as if he were president to give Trump an idea of how he would have handled it.
“As President of the United States, and as a Republican, I reject the support of white supremacists. The country that defeated Hitler’s armies is no place for Nazi flags. The party of Lincoln won’t stand with those who carry the battle flag of the failed Confederacy,” Schwarzenegger said. “Was that that difficult,” he added. “See, I told you.”
The former California governor, who grew up in Austria, then addressed the neo-Nazis, the white nationalists and the neo-Confederates.
“Your heroes are losers,” he began. “You are supporting a lost cause.”
“Growing up, I was surrounded by broken men, men who came home from a war filled with shrapnels and guilt, men who were misled into a losing ideology. And I can tell you: that these ghosts you idolize spent the rest of their lives living in shame and right now, they’re resting in hell,”