By Mark Gray
9:00am PDT, Oct 28, 2023
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Arnold Schwarzenegger will probably never call the White House home, but that's not because he doesn't think he could be an effective leader. The "Terminator" star and former California Governor was born in Austria, which disqualifies him from running for president of the United States. In a new chat with BBC News, though, he refused to complain about his seemingly dead-in-the-water political aspirations while also criticizing the lack of youth at the top of both Democratic and Republican tickets.
Keep reading for his thoughts on the topic…
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Arnold Schwarzenegger immigrated to the United States from Austria as a teenager. Because the actor is not a natural-born citizen of the United States, he can't run for the highest office in the land.
"I feel like I would make a great president," he told the BBC. "But I feel that, at the same time, everything I've accomplished was because of America. America gave me so many opportunities and the American people were so embracive, and they just received me with open arms. There was no one there that stopped me from my success. So the only thing that I can't do, which is run for president, I'm not going to complain about that."
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To put it bluntly, Arnold Schwarzenegger is unenthused about the prospects for the 2024 presidential election. By all indications, it's likely to be a rematch of 80-year-old Joe Biden and 77-year-old Donald Trump.
"I just hope that America finds some really young blood," he said. "Because to me, it is a little bit odd that we are having a battle between people today in the late seventies and early eighties rather than people that in the forties and fifties or maybe even younger and have them have a chance at this great, great job."
Arnold, for what it's worth, is 76 years old.
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There is a chance that the United States Constitution could change, paving the way for someone like Arnold Schwarzenegger to run for president, but it's not likely.
"I mean OK there is the constitution. We need some immigration reform, absolutely, to change that. But it would be a little bit selfish if I go out and try to change the law," he said.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger served as the governor of California from 2003 to 2011. He's the only Republican to govern the Golden State this century — California is now a highly-Democratic state. The last Republican to carry California in a presidential election was George H. W. Bush in 1988.
Shortly after leaving office due to term limits, it was revealed that Arnold had secretly fathered a son with a housekeeper in 1996. At the time of the shocking revelation, the boy, Joseph Baena, was 15 years old.
Maria Shriver, Arnold's wife of 25 years, soon filed for divorce.
