Arnold Schwarzenegger Would Love to Be President After Playing One in His New Movie
Bodybuilder-turned-actor-turned-politician Arnold Schwarzenegger has famously clashed with President Donald Trump a number of times over the last few years. Their feud has been fueled by all kinds of factors, from difference of opinion over policy to, bafflingly, viewing figures for The Apprentice. Schwarzenegger has even remarked that the President is "in love" with him, adding: "He wants to be me."
But does The Governator want to be in Trump's shoes? In an interview with Edward-Isaac Dovere at The Atlantic this week, Schwarzenegger spoke about how playing a fictional President in his new movie, Kung Fury 2, made the prospect more tempting in real life.
"Oh yeah. Yeah, absolutely. I think about it," he said. "It would’ve been fun to sit here and to have the power and to work with the world together and solve those problems and to take on those challenges. Yeah, of course I think about that. But at the same time, I also think about, Wait a minute, you can’t really complain about it too much, because everything that was accomplished in my life was because of America."
That isn't to say Schwarzenegger is setting his sights on the White House any time soon (and a presidential bid would be impossible for somebody who was born in Austria), but playing the POTUS on-screen is one item off his bucket list.
"It’s fun to play something, at least, that you can’t be," he said. "This is why it’s fun to play a CIA agent like you do in the movies. The amount of cops I played—my father always wanted me to be a cop. So since we don’t have comprehensive immigration reform, and a foreign-born citizen cannot run for president, it’s fun to play."
In Kung Fury 2, Schwarzenegger plays a cigar-chomping Commander-in-Chief alongside Michael Fassbender, Alexandra Shipp and his fellow '80s star David Hasselhoff in a heightened tale of "Kung Fu cops, time-traveling Hitlers, machine gun-wielding Vikings and much more." Sounds like a hell of lot more fun than life on the campaign trail.
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