Trump Goes After Schwarzenegger Over ‘Apprentice’ Ratings

Trump Goes After Schwarzenegger Over ‘Apprentice’ Ratings
President-elect Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a rally in Fayetteville, N.C., on Dec. 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
The Associated Press
1/6/2017
Updated:
1/6/2017

President-elect Donald Trump is taunting Arnold Schwarzenegger for bringing in low ratings in a spinoff of Trump’s old reality television show, “Celebrity Apprentice.”

In an early Friday tweet, Trump refers to himself as a “ratings machine” and says Schwarzenegger “got ’swamped'” by comparison.

He tweets “so much for being a movie star,” and “now compare him to my season 1.”

Trump added: “But who cares, he supported Kasich & Hillary,” referring to Ohio Republican Gov. John Kasich and Democrat Hillary Clinton, who both ran against him.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, the new boss of "The New Celebrity Apprentice," at a press junket in Universal City, Calif. (Paul Drinkwater/NBC via AP)
Arnold Schwarzenegger, the new boss of "The New Celebrity Apprentice," at a press junket in Universal City, Calif. (Paul Drinkwater/NBC via AP)

Schwarzenegger is a moderate Republican who said in October that he wouldn’t vote for Trump, calling it a choice of “your country over your party.”

He’s hosting “The New Celebrity Apprentice,” in which Trump retains a producing stake.