Capitol invaded: Schwarzenegger attacks Trump, a “failed leader”

A new voice is rising in the United States against Donald Trump. Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Republican governor of California, commented in a video on Twitter about the violence on Capitol Hill, which he called an attempted coup by the president. The actor, born in Austria in 1947, evokes in passing the Nazi past of his father in this message which has gone viral, in which he compares the assault of pro-Trump demonstrators on the seat of Congress to the “Kristallnacht” of 1938 in Germany, the night of the Nazi pogroms which notably smashed the windows of stores run by Jews.

“Wednesday was Crystal Day here in America,” he says, seated solemnly at his desk. “The broken windows were those of the Capitol.” “I grew up surrounded by broken men, who drank to forget their guilt of having participated in the worst diet in history,” says the interpreter of Terminator and Conan the Barbarian. “I never shared this too publicly, but my father came home drunk, once or twice a week, and he screamed, he beat us and he scared my mother ”.

Trump, “the worst president of all”

The former weightlifter does not explicitly say that his father was a Nazi but adds that he did not really blame him, because “my father, like our neighbors, had been deceived by lies and I know how far it goes. kind of lies ”. “President Trump sought to reverse the outcome of an election, and a fair election. He attempted a coup by deceiving people with lies, ”says Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose message quickly went viral.

“President Trump is a failed leader. He will go down in history as the worst president of all, ”he says. “The good thing is that it will soon be as valuable as an old tweet.” “Whatever your political affiliation, I ask you to join me in saying to President-elect Joe Biden: we wish you success, if you succeed, our country succeeds,” he concluded. “To those who have tried to overturn the Constitution of the United States, I say this: you will never win.”