ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER has delivered a powerful message to Donald Trump over his reaction to riots in Charlottesville.
In a video for US site ATTN, the actor and former Governor of California slammed the President for his failure to condemn neo-Nazi and supremacist groups.
He says Trump has a “moral responsibility to send an unequivocal message that you won’t stand for hate and racism.”
“There are not two sides to bigotry, there are not two sides to hatred,” he adds, referencing Trumps comments which condemned the ‘many sides’ involved.
.@Schwarzenegger has a blunt message for Nazis. pic.twitter.com/HAbnejahtl
— ATTN: (@attn) August 17, 2017
The Terminator star crafts a response on behalf of Trump, accompanied by a bobble-head figurine of the President.
Schwarzenegger then addresses the demonstrators that have brought bigotry and violence to the city of Charlottesville over the past week.
Nazi flags and salutes have seen at the rallies, where white supremacy groups gathered for protests.
He says: “I have a message to the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists and the neo-Confederates.
“Let me be just as blunt as possible: Your heroes are losers, you are supporting a lost cause.”
Referencing his childhood, spent in Austria, he added: “Growing up, I was surrounded by broken men, men who came home from the war filled with shrapnel and guilt. Men who were misled into a losing ideology.
“These ghosts who you idolise spent the rest of their lives living in shame.
“And right now they’re resting in hell.”
Violence erupted in Charlottesville as white supremacy groups converged on the city to protest against the removal of a statue of Civil War figure General Lee.
The city had planned to remove the statue as Lee’s Confederate Army supported slavery, and the man himself owned slaves.
As anti-racism groups launched counter-protests a man drove a car into them, killing campaigner Heather Heyer and injuring several others.
Trump’s comments in the wake of the attack and growing unrest in the US have come under fire after he condemned both sides for the violence.
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Opponents, and also many in the Republican Party, spoke out on Trump’s failure to strongly condemn the white supremacy groups.
Schwarzenegger, who was a Republican when Governor of California, has donated $100,000 to anti-hate organisations following the violence in Charlottesville.
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