Arnold Schwarzenegger makes apocalyptic prediction about future of US in wake of Charlie Kirk assassination
By Natasha Anderson
Daily Mail
Sep 16, 2025
Arnold Schwarzenegger predicts that the assassination of Charlie Kirk will result in the end of democracy
Arnold Schwarzenegger has made a grisly prediction about the state of the nation in the wake of the political assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Schwarzenegger, 78, has warned America could soon become a place where there is 'no democracy' as the divide between Democrats and Republicans deepens.
'We have to be very careful that we don't get closer to the cliff. Because when you fall down that cliff, down there, there is no democracy,' he argued, speaking Monday night at the University of Southern California.
'We have to be very, very careful. I think it is very important that we turn this around and that we show people power. Because the people can turn this around, the people have the ultimate power.'
The Hollywood-actor-turned-politician 'very strongly' urged that every American 'can make a difference' by exercising their right to vote.
Schwarzenegger, who served as California's governor from 2003 to 2011, is a longtime critic of Donald Trump and has argued the parties need to move away from the extremes to break the Washington gridlock.
Following Kirk's assassination last week, Trump and his allies have ramped up their criticism of the so-called 'far-left', which the president last week blamed for political violence in America and described as 'vicious and horrible and politically savvy'.
There has been a furious response from MAGA supporters after Kirk's alleged killer was revealed to be 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, who the FBI says held a 'leftist ideology' and may have been radicalized online.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, 78, (pictured at speaking at the University of Southern California on Monday) has warned that America could soon become a place where there is 'no democracy' as the divide between Democrats and the Republicans strengthens
The Utah County Attorney’s Office has charged Robinson with aggravated murder, felony discharge of a firearm causing serious bodily injury and obstruction of justice.
Prosecutors will seek the death penalty, which could see the accused assassin executed by firing squad.
While authorities say Robinson hasn't been cooperating with investigators, they say his family and friends have been talking.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said over the weekend that those who know Robinson say his politics shifted left in recent years and that he spent a lot of time in the 'dark corners of the internet'.
FBI Director Kash Patel told Fox News on Monday that when Robinson was asked why he would kill the conservative influencer, he responded: 'Some hatred cannot be negotiated with.'
Trump, responding to the politically-motivated assassination and worsening divide between liberals and conservatives, blamed elements of the left for the state of the union.
'I tell you something that is going to get me in trouble, but I couldn't care less,' he told Fox & Friends on Monday. 'The radicals on the right are radical because they don't want to see crime.
'The radicals on the left are the problem – and they are vicious and horrible and politically savvy. They want men in women's sports, they want transgender for everyone, they want open borders. The worst thing that happened to this country.'
Trump's comments and Schwarzenegger's stark warning also come amid heated debate over federal government control in American cities and the president's crackdown on illegal immigration.
A community member arranges a candle at a growing vigil outside Timpanogos Regional Hospital after Charlie Kirk was shot and killed last week in Orem, Utah
Over the summer, Trump ordered the National Guard to descend on California after anti-ICE protesters turned the state's streets into scenes reminiscent of an apocalypse film.
Trump took federal control of the Washington DC police force last month and has said he believes the takeover should serve as a 'template' for how he will handle violent crime in other major US cities.
He said his next targets are the 'hellholes' of Chicago, Illinois and Baltimore, Maryland.
Trump says he wants Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Maryland Gov. Wes Moore – both Democrats – to call and ask for him to send in troops.
But even if they don't, Trump admitted he still plans to carry out his plan to use the National Guard as a police force in liberal US cities.
'We're going in,' the president said earlier this month. 'This isn't a political thing. I have an obligation.'
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, however, said he would defend his city from Trump's 'authoritarianism' and has been advocating for his fellow Democrats to take a more aggressive posture against Trump.
He further accused the president of wanting to 'occupy our city and break our Constitution'.
Federal agents block people protesting an ICE immigration raid at a nearby licensed cannabis farm on July 10, 2025 near Camarillo, California
In an interview with CBS News this week, Trump admitted that violence in America is not one-sided, but doubled down on his criticisms of the left.
'I didn't say it's on one side,' Trump told the broadcaster's Chief White House Correspondent Nancy Cordes, 'but I say the radical left causes tremendous violence and they seem to do it in a bigger way. I really think they hate our country.'
He also announced Monday that he would considered labeling the far-left anti-fascism group Antifa as a domestic terrorism organization if he received support from his cabinet and Justice Department.
'Antifa is terrible. There are other groups,' he said from the Oval Office. 'We have some pretty radical groups, and they got away with murder.'
A Wall Street Journal survey in July found more than 80 percent of Democrats and 80 percent of Republicans hold not only an unfavorable view of the opposing party but a 'very unfavorable' view.
In contrast, a similar survey of voters in 2020 found only 50 percent of Republicans and 40 percent of Democrats held 'very negative' views of the other party.
Schwarzenegger on Monday entered the national battle over US House control, urging voters to reject a California ballot proposal to rejig districts that he said would erode democratic principles and allow politicians to 'take the power away from the people'.
A demonstrator holding an American flag is pushed back by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer during a protest outside an ICE facility in Illinois on September 12
Demonstrators are teargassed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers during a protest outside an ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, on September 12
'It is insane,' he said of Democratic-backed Proposition 50, an initiative intended to add five Democratic US House seats in California to offset Trump's moves in Texas to gain five Republican districts before the 2026 midterm elections.
'It doesn't make any sense to me that because we have to fight Trump, to become Trump,' Schwarzenegger said. 'Two wrongs don't make a right.'
The proposal championed by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom would temporarily set aside districts crafted by an independent state commission and replace them with dramatically reshaped districts drafted by Democrats and designed to benefit the party's candidates.
Schwarzenegger repeatedly stressed the proposal would set aside maps drawn in a public process by an independent commission he promoted as governor, and replace it with partisan maps shaped behind closed doors and blessed by 'the politicians'.
He never directly criticized Newsom or the Legislature's Democratic majority, which endorsed the proposal.
1 comment:
A large chunk of the US population (almost 20% according to one recent poll) says it is OK to demonize and murder your political opponents. Of that 20% about 17% are on the left.
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