“Arnold Schwarzenegger … You know what? He died … I was there.” So said Donald Trump while speaking to reporters during his social media summit this week, according to Yahoo News White House correspondent Hunter Walker. Well, perhaps Donald should have heeded Ahnie’s most famous “Terminator” tagline. Because if “the governator” really died, he made good on the old “I’ll be back” promise on Twitter when he caught wind of the president’s comment. “I’m still here,” Arnold tweeted in response on Thursday, July 11, before bringing up the ongoing controversy around Trump’s refusal to disclose what he pays in taxes. “Want to compare tax returns, @realDonaldTrump ?” Arnold asked. Yahoo’s reporter later clarified, “The president was talking about Apprentice ratings when he quipped that Schwarzenegger ‘died.’ Real life and death stuff.” As People reminds us, the feud over “Celebrity Apprentice” dates back to Arnold’s decision to step down from his host role at “Celebrity Apprentice” because, as he told Empire magazine in 2017, “With Trump being involved in the show people have a bad taste and don’t want to participate as a spectator or as a sponsor or in any other way support the show.” At the time, Arnold was prone to blaming Trump for the show’s sinking ratings, while the president was busy firing off tweets about what a “bad job” Arnold had done as the governor as California and how he did “an even worse job” on “Celebrity Apprentice.”
