# Arnold condemns Trump

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arnold-condemns-trump/793951>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 18, 2017, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arnold-condemns-trump/793951 "2017-08-18T05:14:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arnold-condemns-trump/793951/1 "2017-08-18T05:14:45Z")

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And Nazis too!

[https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/time/4906106/arnold-schwarzenegger-white-supremecists-nazi-trump/%3Fsource=dam](https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/time/4906106/arnold-schwarzenegger-white-supremecists-nazi-trump/%3fsource=dam)

Good for him.

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**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arnold-condemns-trump/793951/2 "2017-08-18T05:21:14Z")

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Seven months into a Trump presidency, and people are making headlines for condemning Nazis.

That sounds about right.

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**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arnold-condemns-trump/793951/3 "2017-08-18T07:05:44Z")

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Oh please, Schwarzenegger was born in Austria, what would he know about Nazis?

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**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arnold-condemns-trump/793951/4 "2017-08-18T07:39:35Z")

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… is it terribly wrong that his delivery made me think of Fox’s?

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**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arnold-condemns-trump/793951/5 "2017-08-18T08:16:44Z")

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> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#):
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> Seven months into a Trump presidency, and people are making headlines for condemning Nazis.
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> That sounds about right.

This sort of comment is - at one level - getting old. On the other hand, your droll delivery definitely got a wry chuckle from me.

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**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arnold-condemns-trump/793951/6 "2017-08-18T09:00:50Z")

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This might be the pinnacle of Arnold’s career.

“Let’s terminate hate!”

C’MON!

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**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arnold-condemns-trump/793951/7 "2017-08-18T09:13:47Z")

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In other news, Harrison Ford follows suit in [denouncing Nazism](https://youtu.be/5sp3dIyNA2A).

Controversy ensues.

Stranger

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**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arnold-condemns-trump/793951/8 "2017-08-18T09:37:34Z")

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This would normally be the point at which I’d be tempted to start up with ‘See how much better you guys could have done if you didn’t have that dumb rule about where your presidents are allowed to be born!’

On the other hand, this may not be quite the right month for an Australian to be getting on their soapbox about \*other people’s \*citizenship insanities…

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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arnold-condemns-trump/793951/9 "2017-08-18T10:28:55Z")

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Yesterday I saw an article about the “You’re getting a Dell” commercial guy coming out against Trump. No word yet from Ellen Feiss.

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**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arnold-condemns-trump/793951/10 "2017-08-18T12:06:38Z")

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> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#):
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> Seven months into a Trump presidency, and people are making headlines for condemning Nazis.

They are responding to what they view as a growing crisis. Why is that wrong?

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**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arnold-condemns-trump/793951/11 "2017-08-18T16:01:18Z")

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But he still considers himself a Republican even though his party is securely hitched to the Trump wagon. I’m still waiting for him to denounce his party.

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**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arnold-condemns-trump/793951/12 "2017-08-18T16:16:20Z")

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> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> Yesterday I saw an article about the “You’re getting a Dell” commercial guy coming out against Trump. No word yet from Ellen Feiss.

She’s going to intimidate Trump by swatting at him with her freakishly large hand.

Stranger

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arnold-condemns-trump/793951/13 "2017-08-18T17:00:39Z")

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> [@Robot\_Arm](#):
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> Oh please, Schwarzenegger was born in Austria, what would he know about Nazis?

🙂

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**Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arnold-condemns-trump/793951/14 "2017-08-18T17:26:08Z")

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> [@Robot\_Arm](#):
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> Oh please, Schwarzenegger was born in Austria, what would he know about Nazis?

I really liked “men who came home from the war filled with shrapnels… and guilt.”

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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2017, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arnold-condemns-trump/793951/15 "2017-08-19T00:29:40Z")

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> [@Robot\_Arm](#):
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> Oh please, Schwarzenegger was born in Austria, what would he know about Nazis?

Austria’s greatest PR coups were to convince the world that Beethoven was from Austria and Hitler wasn’t.

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**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2017, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arnold-condemns-trump/793951/16 "2017-08-19T02:02:51Z")

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I haven’t heard too many people come out in favor of what Trump said & it’s not exactly like they were trading Christmas cards before this happened.

Seems like a no-brainer to contradict someone \*not \*doing the right thing, especially when you don’t like them already.
