Schwarzenegger: Trump wants to be me

“I think he’s in love with me,” Schwarzenegger said. “I could not be more clear. I think he wakes up in the morning and says, To hell, I want to be Schwarzenegger.”

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Schwarzenegger’s beef with the president kicked off in early 2017, when the former Terminator star took over as Trump’s replacement on The Celebrity Apprentice, which was aptly renamed The New Celebrity Apprentice. The show’s ratings stalled, leading Trump to ask a crowd at the usually somber National Prayer Breakfast to “pray for Arnold.” (Schwarzenegger couldn’t resist a shot back, tweeting: “I wish you the best of luck and I hope you’ll work for ALL of the American people as aggressively as you worked for your ratings.”)

“I don’t think he’s happy in his own skin,” Schwarzenegger said in today’s interview. “I think he wants to be me. He wants to be a great, studly guy that looks good and is muscular, doesn’t have a gut sticking out—all of those things.”

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