--- title: Arnold Schwarzenegger Responds to Trump's Twitter Slam description: After Donald Trump slammed Arnold Schwarzenegger on Twitter, the former governor came back with an inspirational video message. canonical: https://time.com/4625886/arnold-schwarzenegger-donald-trump-abraham-lincoln/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-06T16:00:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T02:35:23.340Z article:section: Politics og:title: Arnold Schwarzenegger Responds to Trump's Twitter Slam og:description: After Donald Trump slammed Arnold Schwarzenegger on Twitter, the former governor came back with an inspirational video message. og:url: https://time.com/4625886/arnold-schwarzenegger-donald-trump-abraham-lincoln/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4219117678bd1338/6988b49a2dce0183de9ebd92/trump-schwarzenegger-fight.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: trump-schwarzenegger-fight og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Arnold Schwarzenegger Responds to Trump's Twitter Slam twitter:description: After Donald Trump slammed Arnold Schwarzenegger on Twitter, the former governor came back with an inspirational video message. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4219117678bd1338/6988b49a2dce0183de9ebd92/trump-schwarzenegger-fight.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Arnold Schwarzenegger's 'Inspired' Response to Donald Trump's Twitter Slam  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Jan 6, 2017 4:00 PM UTC  Don Emmert and Ty Wright—Getty Images  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Jan 6, 2017 4:00 PM UTC Arnold Schwarzenegger has some advice for Donald Trump: Listen to Abraham Lincoln. Trump had [slammed Schwarzenegger on Twitter](http://fortune.com/2017/01/06/donald-trump-arnold-schwarzenegger-celebrity-apprentice-ratings/) Friday morning for disappointing ratings for the season premiere of _The New Celebrity Apprentice,_ so Schwarzenegger came back with an inspirational video message for the President-elect, harkening back to 1861. “Please study this quote from Lincoln’s inaugural, @realDonaldTrump,” Schwarzenegger tweeted Friday morning. “It inspired me every day I was Governor, and I hope it inspires you.” In the video, after saying he’s “sure you want to hear me read Lincoln’s speeches in my Austrian accent,” the former California governor recites the famous final section of Lincoln’s first inaugural address: --- > “” --- > [](https://twitter.com/Schwarzenegger/status/817386622299705349) “Remember,” Schwarzenegger concludes, “the campaign is over, the election is over, and we are not enemies.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4625886/arnold-schwarzenegger-donald-trump-abraham-lincoln/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4625886/arnold-schwarzenegger-donald-trump-abraham-lincoln/"},"headline":"Watch Arnold Schwarzenegger's 'Inspired' Response to Donald Trump's Twitter Slam","datePublished":"2017-01-06T16:00:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T02:35:23.340Z","description":"After Trump trolled him for low Apprentice ratings","url":"https://time.com/4625886/arnold-schwarzenegger-donald-trump-abraham-lincoln/","keywords":["Donald Trump","Arnold Schwarzenegger","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4219117678bd1338/6988b49a2dce0183de9ebd92/trump-schwarzenegger-fight.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4219117678bd1338/6988b49a2dce0183de9ebd92/trump-schwarzenegger-fight.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"trump-schwarzenegger-fight","caption":"","creditText":"Don Emmert and Ty Wright—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4625886/arnold-schwarzenegger-donald-trump-abraham-lincoln/","name":"Watch Arnold Schwarzenegger's 'Inspired' Response to Donald Trump's Twitter Slam"}}]}] ```