PRESIDENT TRUMP IS A FAILED LEADER: ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

LOS ANGELES: Hollywood star Arnold Schwarzenegger has condemned the attack on the Capitol in the US, and described Donald Trump as the worst president ever. The former Governor of California also compared the mob that attacked the US Capitol to the Nazis. in a seven-minute video, which was posted on Schwarzenegger’s Twitter account late on Sunday, the actor compared the events to 1938’s Kristallnacht. “As an immigrant to this country, I would like to say a few words to my fellow Americans, and to our friends around the world about the events of recent days. i grew up in Austria,” he began. “I’m very aware of Kristallnacht, or the Night of broken Glass. it was night of rampage against the Jews carried out in 1938 by the Nazi equivalent of the Proud boys. Wednesday was the Day of broken Glass right here in the United States. The broken glass was in the windows of the United States Capitol. But the mob did not just shatter the windows of the Capitol, they shattered the ideas we took for granted,” he added. The actor continued: “They did not just break down the doors of the building that housed American democracy; they trampled the very principles on which our country was founded. i grew up in the ruins of a country that suffered the loss of its democracy. “i was born in 1947, two years after the Second World War. Growing up, i was surrounded by broken men drinking away the guilt over their participation in the most evil regime in history. Not all of them were rabid anti-Semites or Nazis, many just went along, step-by-step, down the road. They were the people next-door.” “Now, I’ve never shared this so publicly because it is a painful memory. but my father would come home drunk once or twice a week and he would scream and hit us and scare my mother,” Schwarzenegger said. “I didn’t hold him totally responsible because our neighbour was doing the same thing to his family, and so was the next neighbour over. i heard it with my ears and saw it with my own eyes,” he said. He recalled how his father and neighbours had been left troubled by their memories of a war.