In his opening remarks at Thursday’s National Prayer Breakfast, President Donald Trump asked the audience to “pray” that “Celebrity Apprentice” host Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ratings improve.
“I want to just pray for Arnold, if we can, for those ratings,” Trump said, to muted laughter.
The President was introduced at the annual meeting of faith leaders by “Apprentice” producer Mark Burnett. After thanking Burnett and his “beautiful” wife Roma Downey, Trump launched into a reminiscence about his “tremendous success” as the show’s host and his remorse about leaving the show to run for president.
He blamed Schwarzenegger, who replaced him, for sending the ratings “right down the tubes.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump, at National Prayer Breakfast, talks about “The Apprentice” ratings and the time he fired his agent. pic.twitter.com/z93rGYvqqd
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) February 2, 2017
The President is still listed as executive producer of the show.
Shortly after his address, a Schwarzenegger spokesman told ABC that the actor was “praying that President Trump can start improving his own approval ratings, which were the worst in history for an incoming President.”
Recent polls from Quinnipiac and Gallup show Trump with approval ratings below 50 percent, well below those of recent commanders-in-chief including George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
Schwarzenegger also posted a short video to Twitter in which he asked Trump to “switch jobs” with him.
“You take over TV because you’re such an expert in ratings and I take over your job so that people can finally sleep comfortably again, hmm?” the “Terminator” actor and former California governor asked.
The National Prayer Breakfast? pic.twitter.com/KYUqEZbJIE
— Arnold (@Schwarzenegger) February 2, 2017
This post has been updated.
Good grief this isn’t the worst thing to come out this breakfast. This is: “President Trump vowed Thursday to overturn a law restricting political speech by churches, a potentially huge victory for the religious right and a gesture to his political base.”
Maybe he will tax Churches then ? “Let not the left hand know, what the right hand is groping” or whatever…
uh huh sure he will.
This gets worse everyday.