--- title: Donald Trump 'Prays' for Apprentice Ratings, Schwarzenegger description: President Donald Trump opened his remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast Thursday morning by plugging the latest incarnation of The Apprentice while taking a dig... canonical: https://time.com/4657913/donald-trump-apprentice-prayer-breakfast-schwarzenegger/ author: Julia Zorthian article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-02T16:40:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T03:06:20.916Z article:section: Politics og:title: President Trump Just Prayed for Schwarzenegger and 'The Apprentice' Ratings og:description: During his remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast, Trump brought up his show og:url: https://time.com/4657913/donald-trump-apprentice-prayer-breakfast-schwarzenegger/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt58dbbe3045a0ac57/6988b87d428a9e6b62cd5bad/trump-national-prayer-breakfast-the-apprentice.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: trump national prayer breakfast the apprentice og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: President Trump Just Prayed for Schwarzenegger and 'The Apprentice' Ratings twitter:description: During his remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast, Trump brought up his show twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt58dbbe3045a0ac57/6988b87d428a9e6b62cd5bad/trump-national-prayer-breakfast-the-apprentice.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # President Trump Plugs _The Apprentice_ at Prayer Breakfast With Dig at Arnold Schwarzenegger  by [Julia Zorthian](https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Feb 2, 2017 4:40 PM UTC  President Donald Trump, flanked by bagels, delivers remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast February 2, 2017 in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump, flanked by bagels, delivers remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast February 2, 2017 in Washington, DC.Win McNamee—Getty Images  by [Julia Zorthian](https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Feb 2, 2017 4:40 PM UTC [President Donald Trump ](http://time.com/4658012/donald-trump-national-prayer-breakfast-transcript/)opened his remarks at the [National Prayer Breakfast](http://time.com/4658012/donald-trump-national-prayer-breakfast-transcript/) Thursday morning by plugging the latest incarnation of _The Apprentice_ while taking a dig at [Arnold Schwarzenegger](http://time.com/4620434/arnold-schwarzenegger-the-apprentice-catchphrase/), the show’s host. Trump is an executive producer of _The New_ _Celebrity Apprentice_, and he has repeatedly ribbed Schwarzenegger for not achieving the ratings Trump did when he hosted the show. “The ratings went right down the tubes. It’s been a total disaster,” Trump said of _The New_ _Celebrity Apprentice_ at the prayer breakfast, adding with a laugh: “I want to just pray for Arnold, if we can, for those ratings.” Schwarzenegger was [quick to fire back](http://time.com/4625886/arnold-schwarzenegger-donald-trump-abraham-lincoln/) with a short video on Twitter, offering to switch jobs with the President: “You take over TV, because you’re such an expert in ratings, and I take over your job. Then people can finally sleep comfortably again.” > [](https://twitter.com/Schwarzenegger/status/827169996866347008) Schwarzenegger spokesperson Daniel Ketchell also had his own jab about ratings Thursday morning. “Arnold is praying that President Trump can start improving his own approval ratings, which were the worst in history for an incoming president, by taking his job seriously and working inclusively,” Ketchell [told ABC News](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-trump-attend-national-prayer-breakfast/story?id=45203891). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4657913/donald-trump-apprentice-prayer-breakfast-schwarzenegger/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4657913/donald-trump-apprentice-prayer-breakfast-schwarzenegger/"},"headline":"President Trump Plugs The Apprentice at Prayer Breakfast With Dig at Arnold Schwarzenegger","datePublished":"2017-02-02T16:40:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T03:06:20.916Z","description":"President Donald Trump opened his remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast Thursday morning by plugging the latest incarnation of The Apprentice while taking a dig...","url":"https://time.com/4657913/donald-trump-apprentice-prayer-breakfast-schwarzenegger/","keywords":["White House","Television","celebrities","Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt58dbbe3045a0ac57/6988b87d428a9e6b62cd5bad/trump-national-prayer-breakfast-the-apprentice.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Julia Zorthian","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt58dbbe3045a0ac57/6988b87d428a9e6b62cd5bad/trump-national-prayer-breakfast-the-apprentice.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"trump national prayer breakfast the apprentice","caption":"trump national prayer breakfast the apprentice","creditText":"Win McNamee—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/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4657913/donald-trump-apprentice-prayer-breakfast-schwarzenegger/","name":"President Trump Plugs The Apprentice at Prayer Breakfast With Dig at Arnold Schwarzenegger"}}]}] ```