Arnold Schwarzenegger isn’t exactly a conservative hero these days.
From backing lockdowns during COVID to telling Americans to “screw your freedom,” the former California governor has taken positions that pushed him far from the political base that once celebrated him.
So when he appeared on The View, many expected more of the same—virtue signals, Trump bashing, and applause lines tailored to the studio audience.
But that’s not at all what happened.
Joy Behar opened with a question about immigration enforcement and ICE.
“As an immigrant yourself,” she asked, “did you have a visceral reaction to what they’re doing? What ICE is doing? When you see the videos of it?”
Behar clearly hoped for a condemnation of Trump and Republican immigration policy.
What she got was something far less predictable—and far more patriotic.
“Well, I’ll tell you,” Schwarzenegg…