The president-elect criticized the actor in a series of tweets after the new version of “The Apprentice,” which Schwarzenegger hosts, premiered with weak ratings this week.
From The Smoke Room
“Wow, the ratings are in and Arnold Schwarzenegger got ‘swamped’ (or destroyed) by comparison to the ratings machine, DJT. So much for,” Trump tweeted Friday morning, ” being a movie star-and that was season 1 compared to season 14. Now compare him to my season 1.”
“But who cares, he supported Kasich & Hillary.”
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
being a movie star-and that was season 1 compared to season 14. Now compare him to my season 1. But who cares, he supported Kasich & Hillary
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2017
The last episode of the last season of “The Apprentice” that Trump hosted averaged 6.1 million viewers, while an estimated 4.93 million viewers watched the premiere of Schwarzenegger’s season.
