Arnold Schwarzenegger has hit out at white supremacists in the wake of the deadly Charlottesville rally and mocked President Donald Trump over his response.
The Commando star says claiming there are "many sides" to bigotry and hatred is wrong in a video published on the ATTN Facebook page.
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Schwarzenegger had a stern message for racist hate groups, saying their heroes were losers.
"I know the original Nazis. I was born in Austria in 1947, shortly after the Second World War, and growing up I was surrounded by broken men," he says.
"Men who came home from the war filled with shrapnel and guilt, men who were misled into a losing ideology. And I can tell you that these ghosts that [Neo-Nazis] idolise spent the rest of their lives living in shame. And right now, they're resting in hell."
In addition to his bodybuilding and acting achievements, Schwarzenegger was the Republican governor of California from 2003 - 2011.
He reached out to Trump in the video to help with advice on how to address the nation after the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
"As president of the United States and as a Republican, I reject the support of white supremacists," Schwarzenegger says.
"The country that defeated Hitler's armies is no place for Nazi flags. The party of Lincoln won't stand with those who carry the battle flag of the failed Confederacy."
He then holds up a bobblehead doll of the former Celebrity Apprentice host and laughs, "Was that so difficult?"
Schwarzenegger says marchers at the white supremacist rally who claim they aren't Nazis should've spoken up to condemn the hate groups marching with them. He says such hate groups must be aggressively dealt with in the same way cancer is treated.
"Let's all commit right now to leaving the terrible ghosts of the past in the trash heap of history," Schwarzenegger says.
"That's where they belong... Let's terminate hate."
Shortly after the Charlottesville violence, Schwarzenegger donated US$100,000 to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which fights hatred and bigotry.
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