--- title: Watch Arnold Schwarzenegger Slam Nazis the Way Trump Hasn't description: Arnold Schwarzenegger has ripped into Trump's failure to unequivocally condemn the white supremacist groups that support him. canonical: https://time.com/4906106/arnold-schwarzenegger-white-supremecists-nazi-trump/ author: Joseph Hincks article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-18T03:21:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-08T09:29:42.382Z og:title: Watch Arnold Schwarzenegger Slam Nazis the Way Trump Hasn't og:description: "There are not two sides to bigotry, there are not two sides to hatred." og:url: https://time.com/4906106/arnold-schwarzenegger-white-supremecists-nazi-trump/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt763ee9cc297142cd/6988da38656a3fe92fbd156c/gettyimages-800195670.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: French President Emmanuel Macron Receives Arnold Schwarzenegger At Elysee Palace og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Arnold Schwarzenegger Slam Nazis the Way Trump Hasn't twitter:description: "There are not two sides to bigotry, there are not two sides to hatred." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt763ee9cc297142cd/6988da38656a3fe92fbd156c/gettyimages-800195670.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Arnold Schwarzenegger Denounce Nazis in the Way Trump Has Failed to Do > Sponsored content. 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President Donald Trump said Tuesday that anti-racism protesters bear some of the blame for the violent rallies in Charlottesville, returning to his original comments that "both sides" were responsible for the deadly clashes._ by [Joseph Hincks](https://time.com/author/joseph-hincks/) ## Joseph Hincks Aug 18, 2017 3:21 AM UTC President Donald Trump said Tuesday that anti-racism protesters bear some of the blame for the violent rallies in Charlottesville, returning to his original comments that "both sides" were responsible for the deadly clashes. by [Joseph Hincks](https://time.com/author/joseph-hincks/) ## Joseph Hincks Aug 18, 2017 3:21 AM UTC Former California Governor and movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger has ripped into Trump’s failure to unequivocally condemn white supremacist groups. “There are not two sides to bigotry, there are not two sides to hatred,” Schwarzenegger says in a video posted to Twitter by California-based ATTN: “If you choose to march with a flag that symbolizes the slaughter of millions of people, there are not two sides.” The former Terminator then makes the sort of speech he says the U.S. president should have delivered. “The country that defeated Hitler’s army is no place for Nazi flags,” it goes. Later in the clip, Schwarzenegger describes growing up in Austria shortly after the Second World War. He talks of Nazism as a losing, shameful ideology and of broken men “who came home from the war filled with shrapnel and guilt.” Watch the video here: > [](https://twitter.com/attn/status/898328098529083394) ## Transcript [00:00] I've condemned neo- Nazis, I've condemned many [00:04] different groups, but not all of those people were [00:08] neo- Nazis, believe me. Not all of those people were [00:11] white supremacists. I think there's blame on both [00:13] sides. You look at both sides I think there's blame [00:18] on both sides, and I have no doubt about it. What [00:20] about the alt- left? They came charging, as you say, at [00:23] the alt- right. Do they have any semblance of guilt? [00:27] [ CROSSTALK ]. Let me ask you this, what about the [00:31] fact they came charging with clubs in their hands, [00:34] swinging clubs, Do they have any problem? I think they [00:38] do. There was a group on this side, you can call them [00:41] the left, you've just called them the left, that came [00:44] violently attacking the other group. So you can say what [00:47] you want, but that's they way it is. You had people in [00:50] that group that were there to protest the taking down, [00:54] to them, a very, very important statue, And the [00:57] renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another [01:00] name .>> [ UNKNOWN ] George Washington was a [01:04] slave owner. Was George Washington a slave owner? [01:07] So, will George Washington now lose his status? Excuse [01:12] me. Are we going to take down statues to George [01:16] Washington How about Thomas Jefferson? What do you [01:19] think about Thomas Jefferson? You like him? I do love [01:20] Thomas Jefferson. Okay good. Are we gonna take [01:23] down the statue? Cuz he was a major slave owner. [01:25] Now are we gonna take down his statue? So you know [01:28] what? It's fine. You're changing history. 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