--- title: Donald Trump: Schwarzenegger Fired From 'Apprentice' description: Donald Trump claimed that Arnold Schwarzenegger was fired from NBC's 'The New Celebrity Apprentice' rather than voluntarily leaving canonical: https://time.com/4691188/president-donald-trump-arnold-schwarzenegger-celebrity-apprentice/ author: Aric Jenkins article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-04T15:35:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T03:40:02.522Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Trump Says Schwarzenegger Was Fired From 'Celebrity Apprentice' for 'Pathetic Ratings' og:description: Saturday was a busy morning of tweeting for President Trump og:url: https://time.com/4691188/president-donald-trump-arnold-schwarzenegger-celebrity-apprentice/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6bc232e5a2de1c13/69885815428a9e59d6ccdddc/gettyimages-478057072.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Arnold Schwarzenegger attends the European Premiere of 'Terminator: Genisys' at the CineStar Sony Center on June 21, 2015 in Berlin, Germany. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Trump Says Schwarzenegger Was Fired From 'Celebrity Apprentice' for 'Pathetic Ratings' twitter:description: Saturday was a busy morning of tweeting for President Trump twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6bc232e5a2de1c13/69885815428a9e59d6ccdddc/gettyimages-478057072.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # President Trump Says Arnold Schwarzenegger Was Fired From _Celebrity Apprentice_ For 'Pathetic Ratings' by [Aric Jenkins](/author/aric-jenkins/) ## Aric Jenkins Mar 4, 2017 3:35 PM CUT  Arnold Schwarzenegger attends the European Premiere of 'Terminator: Genisys' at the CineStar Sony Center on June 21, 2015 in Berlin, Germany. Arnold Schwarzenegger attends the European Premiere of 'Terminator: Genisys' at the CineStar Sony Center on June 21, 2015 in Berlin, Germany.Isa Foltin—Getty Images by [Aric Jenkins](/author/aric-jenkins/) ## Aric Jenkins Mar 4, 2017 3:35 PM CUT Hours after Donald Trump [accused Barack Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower,](http://fortune.com/2017/03/04/president-trump-obama-wiretapping-trump-tower/ "undefined") the President shifted his crosshairs toward Arnold Schwarzenegger, claiming the actor and former governor was fired from _The New Celebrity Apprentice_ rather than [voluntarily leaving](http://time.com/4690765/arnold-schwarzenegger-leaving-celebrity-apprentice/ "undefined"). “Arnold Schwarzenegger isn’t voluntarily leaving the Apprentice, he was fired by his bad (pathetic) ratings, not by me. Sad end to great show,” the president tweeted on Saturday morning. > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/838016045222854656) Schwarzenegger responded on Twitter Saturday saying that Trump could use “a fact checker.” > [](https://twitter.com/Schwarzenegger/status/838025579802816512) On Friday, Schwarzenegger [announced he was leaving the show due to its association with Trump.](http://time.com/4690765/arnold-schwarzenegger-leaving-celebrity-apprentice/ "undefined") “I loved every second of working with NBC and Mark Burnett. Everyone — form the celebrities to the crew to the marketing department — was a straight 10, and I would absolutely work with all of them again on a show that doesn’t have this baggage,” he wrote in a statement. “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,” Schwarzenegger added. “It’s a very divisive period now and I think this show got caught up in all that division.” Trump starred in the reality show up until he launched his campaign for the presidency in 2015\. He continued to [stay on the series as an executive producer](http://time.com/4621431/new-celebrity-apprentice-premiere-ratings/ "undefined") and made his distaste for Schwarzenegger clear. “Wow the ratings are in and Arnold Schwarzenegger got ‘swamped’ (or destroyed) by comparison to the ratings machine, DJT,” Trump [tweeted in January](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/817348644647108609?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw "undefined"), two weeks before his inauguration. NBC has not commented on whether _The New Celebrity Apprentice_ will be cancelled or seek a new host. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4691188/president-donald-trump-arnold-schwarzenegger-celebrity-apprentice/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4691188/president-donald-trump-arnold-schwarzenegger-celebrity-apprentice/"},"headline":"President Trump Says Arnold Schwarzenegger Was Fired From Celebrity Apprentice For 'Pathetic Ratings'","datePublished":"2017-03-04T15:35:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T03:40:02.522Z","description":"Saturday was a busy morning of tweeting for President Trump","url":"https://time.com/4691188/president-donald-trump-arnold-schwarzenegger-celebrity-apprentice/","keywords":["Television","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6bc232e5a2de1c13/69885815428a9e59d6ccdddc/gettyimages-478057072.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Aric Jenkins","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/aric-jenkins/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6bc232e5a2de1c13/69885815428a9e59d6ccdddc/gettyimages-478057072.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Arnold Schwarzenegger attends the European Premiere of 'Terminator: Genisys' at the CineStar Sony Center on June 21, 2015 in Berlin, Germany.","caption":"Arnold Schwarzenegger attends the European Premiere of 'Terminator: Genisys' at the CineStar Sony Center on June 21, 2015 in Berlin, Germany.","creditText":"Isa Foltin—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/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4691188/president-donald-trump-arnold-schwarzenegger-celebrity-apprentice/","name":"President Trump Says Arnold Schwarzenegger Was Fired From Celebrity Apprentice For 'Pathetic Ratings'"}}]}] ```