Arnold Schwarzenegger directly compares Trump and rioters to Nazis in scathing video

Today, in response to Donald Trump inciting an attack on the U.S. Capitol by white-supremacist terrorists, Arnold Schwarzenegger shared a video on Twitter in which he refers to Trump as the “worst president ever” and directly compares Wednesday’s insurrection to Kristallnacht (a.k.a. the “Night Of Broken Glass,” when Nazi soldiers arrested thousands of Jewish people, destroyed synagogues and Jewish-owned businesses, and murdered untold hundreds of people in 1938). The surprisingly well-produced video—which is over seven-minutes long, includes a number of cuts and camera moves, and even has a swelling background track—features Schwarzenegger in full movie star mode, making what is essentially a dramatic “we will not back down” address to the nation. It’s the sort of speech that countless movie presidents have made, except this time the threat to the United States is the president himself, leaving movie stars to pick up the slack. It’s weird in the way that everything is weird now, but also… oddly effective.