Arnold Schwarzenegger critisize Trump ban

Arnold Schwarzenegger may have taken over Donald Trump's role on The Celebrity Apprentice, but he firmly disagreed with the president on his temporary ban of people from seven majority Muslim countries coming to the US.

'I think the real problem is that it was vetted badly. If
they would run this by the Justice Department and Homeland Security and had the lawyers really study and focus on it and give it some time to do it the right way…'

'I know what he's trying to accomplish - his fear about people coming in from other places, causing harm to the country. There is another way to going about it to do it the right way and accomplish all of the goals. I think they were hasty with it,' he told Extra's Mario Lopez on Monday.

The ban, which affects citizens of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, even if they are green card holders or dual citizens, has caused nationwide protests to erupt. The Syrian refugee program has been indefinitely suspended.

Schwarzenegger, 69, an Austrian immigrant, said he was once in the same position as those seeking to come to America.

'To go and ban people who have a green card, that means that the United States of America has given you permission to work here permanently and you are on the way to permanent citizenship… I was in that position… 

'Students who have been studying at Yale or Harvard, from universities all over the country, they've gone home to the Middle East for a few days, for vacation or to visit their parents, and now they're being told they can't come in?

'It's crazy, it's crazy and makes us look stupid when the White House is ill-prepared to put this kind of executive order out there.'

He added that he hopes some of the chaos is due to the administration's newness.

'You go in there new, you have a new team and mistakes are made; I hope this is a wake-up call for them,' he said.
Daily Mail