Arnold Schwarzenegger thinks President Trump should terminate his attacks on late-Sen. John McCain, according to a report.
“The Terminator” star and former California governor on Wednesday blasted Trump’s recent swipes at the Vietnam War POW as “absolutely unacceptable.”
“He was just an unbelievable person,” Schwarzenegger told The Atlantic about McCain. “So an attack on him is absolutely unacceptable if he’s alive or dead — but even twice as unacceptable since he passed away a few months ago.”
Schwarzenegger told the magazine it “doesn’t make sense” for the president to rip McCain, who died of brain cancer last August.
“I just think it’s a shame that the president lets himself down to that kind of level,” Schwarzenegger said. “We will be lucky if everyone in Washington followed McCain’s example, because he represented courage.”
The president renewed attacks on the veteran senator from Arizona over the weekend, accusing him of leaking the so-called “dossier” alleging ties between Russia and the Trump campaign. He also went after McCain for his ObamaCare vote.
On Tuesday, Trump added: “I was never a fan of John McCain and never will be. Thank you very much.”
The one-sided feud continued Wednesday, with Trump saying he approved the senator’s full dress funeral service at the Washington National Cathedral — but didn’t get a thank you.
“A lot of people are asking me — because they love me — and they ask me about a man named John McCain,” Trump said in his remarks to workers at the Joint Systems Manufacturing Center in Lima, Ohio.
“I have to be honest. I’ve never liked him much.”
The jabs have drawn stern rebuke from McCain’s family and some republican lawmakers, including Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah.