{"id":193583,"date":"2025-09-17T13:01:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/17\/arnold-schwarzenegger-worried-for-us-democracy-following-charlie-kirk-assassination\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T13:01:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:01:18","slug":"arnold-schwarzenegger-worried-for-us-democracy-following-charlie-kirk-assassination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/17\/arnold-schwarzenegger-worried-for-us-democracy-following-charlie-kirk-assassination\/","title":{"rendered":"Arnold Schwarzenegger worried for US democracy following Charlie Kirk assassination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n    <span itemprop=\"author\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\">by <span itemprop=\"name\" style=\"color: #60178e;\">Feeds-Bang<\/span> | <\/span><\/p>\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2025-09-17\" datetime=\"1758114078\" pubdate=\"\">17 September 2025<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/arnold-schwarzenegger\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,arnold-schwarzenegger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arnold Schwarzenegger<\/a> fears that democracy could disappear in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Arnold Schwarzenegger fears for US democracy<\/p>\n<p>The Terminator actor &#8211; who served as Governor of California between 2003 and 2011 &#8211; is worried that the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah last week points towards a grim future for the country as the political divide between the Republican and Democratic parties continues to widen.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the University of Southern California, Arnie said: &#8220;We have to be very careful that we don&#8217;t get closer to the cliff. Because when you fall down that cliff, down there, there is no democracy. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to be very, very careful. I think it&#8217;s very important that we turn this around and that we show people power. Because the people can turn this around, the people have the ultimate power.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Schwarzenegger &#8211; a critic of US President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/donald-trump\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> &#8211; has implored Americans to &#8220;make a difference&#8221; by taking up their right to vote.<\/p>\n<p>\nMeanwhile, Arnie added that it is &#8220;unbelievable&#8221; that Kirk was murdered for having a &#8220;different opinion&#8221; to others.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe 78-year-old star said: &#8220;I was very, very upset that someone&#8217;s life has was taken because they have a different opinion. It&#8217;s just unbelievable. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;This was a great communicator, a great advocate for the right &#8211; for Republican causes. He had such a great way of communicating with the students that agreed or disagreed with him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nHe added of Kirk: &#8220;It&#8217;s a human being. A human life is gone. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;And he was a great father, a great husband. I was thinking about his children. They will only be reading about him now, instead of him reading to them bedtime stories.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe suspect in Kirk&#8217;s shooting, Tyler Robinson, was charged with aggravated murder on Tuesday (16.09.25) and Schwarzenegger feels that the divisions that exist in society are to blame for the political violence.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Total Recall actor said: &#8220;We have to acknowledge that the cause of all this is the social media companies that are dividing us, the mainstream media companies that are dividing us.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;The political parties: the Democrats that are dividing us, the Republicans that are dividing us. We&#8217;re getting hit from so many different angles, and we have to be very careful that we don&#8217;t get closer to that cliff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nHowever, Trump suggested earlier this week that he &#8220;couldn&#8217;t care less&#8221; about healing political rifts as he took aim at left-wing &#8220;radicals&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe president told Fox and Friends: &#8220;I tell you something that is going to get me in trouble, but I couldn&#8217;t care less. The radicals on the right are radical because they don&#8217;t want to see crime.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;The radicals on the left are the problem &#8211; and they are vicious and horrible and politically savvy. They want men in women&#8217;s sports, they want transgender for everyone, they want open borders. The worst thing that happened to this country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/arnold-schwarzenegger-worried-democracy-following-charlie-kirk-assassination-1429860.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Feeds-Bang | 17 September 2025 Arnold Schwarzenegger fears that democracy could disappear in the United States. Arnold Schwarzenegger fears for US democracy The Terminator actor &#8211; who served as Governor of California between 2003 and 2011 &#8211; is worried that the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah last week points towards a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1019,10846,54,12429],"class_list":{"0":"post-193583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-arnold-schwarzenegger","9":"tag-charlie-kirk","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-tyler-robinson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}