Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger came to the late Sen. John McCain’s defense after President Trump spent the last week attacking his old critic.
Schwarzenegger, 71, the Austrian-born politician who rose to fame with the U.S. by his roles in “Conan the Barbarian” and the “Terminator” movies, said the type of vitriol coming from the president is unbecoming of the office.
“[McCain] was just an unbelievable person,” Schwarzenegger told the Atlantic. “So an attack on him is absolutely unacceptable if he’s alive or dead — but even twice as unacceptable since he passed away a few months ago. It doesn’t make any sense whatsoever to do that. I just think it’s a shame that the president lets himself down to that kind of level. We will be lucky if everyone in Washington followed McCain’s example, because he represented courage.”
Schwarzenegger, who also spent his early years a body-builder and fitness icon in the 1970’s and 1980’s, also took a jab at Trump’s physique, sarcastically saying Trump is in great shape.
“I know he must be working out every day because he’s so unbelievably in shape,” Schwarzenegger quipped.
McCain, who graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1958 and was a naval aviator and prisoner of war during the Vietnam War, died in August 2018 due to brain cancer after serving more than 3 decades in the U.S. Senate.
