In a duel of egos, Hollywood’s Arnold Schwarzenegger has taken the fight with President Trump to a new level.
Addressing Trump’s slaps at the Terminator’s low rated stint as the replacement host of Trump’s and NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice, Schwarzenegger said the president “wants to be me.”
In an interview with Men’s Health, the wrestling and movie star and former California governor said, “He’s in love with me. That’s the reality of it. With Trump, he wants to be me.”
The interview, provided to Secrets, comes on the heels of Schwarzenegger’s criticism of Trump’s stand on climate change.
Wow, the ratings are in and Arnold Schwarzenegger got “swamped” (or destroyed) by comparison to the ratings machine, DJT. So much for….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2017
But to Men’s Health, Schwarzenegger described a friendlier time when the two were media stars.
New by @Schwarzenegger in @PostOpinions : Trump can’t erase a decade of clean air progress with a Sharpiehttps://t.co/RzmSP8mJAE
— Washington Post PR (@WashPostPR) September 8, 2019
He told the magazine:
“I don’t think he fears me. But I remember that in the old days, when we went to the wrestling matches, the way he admired people with bodies, and the way they would jump around in the ring, and to perform physical stunts and stuff like that – he had great admiration for that. He asked me, How do you do that, with the movies? I mean, it’s so believable. He drilled down to specific questions that fascinated him. It was about How do you sell something? Like, a scene. How do you go and act out a scene so that I get affected emotionally? He was fascinated by that. How do you do this when you do interviews – that you penetrate through it and you then are totally believable?”
