Arnold Schwarzenegger Claims Media Wrongly Making Out La To Be A 'war Zone'

Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger told Jimmy Kimmel connected Wednesday that nan media is making Los Angeles retired to beryllium a "war zone" and based on that nan anti-ICE riots are impacting very mini portions of nan city.

The character claimed that "maybe 0.001% of nan area of Los Angeles has problems" stemming from nan ongoing convulsive demonstrations and said that he doesn't want tourism successful nan metropolis to suffer because of "what they spot connected television."

President Donald Trump activated astir 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines aft convulsive mobs took to nan streets complete nan weekend, burning and damaging spot while immoderate threw rocks and Molotov cocktails astatine rule enforcement.

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Schwarzenegger based on that nan anti-ICE protests successful LA person been overblown by nan media and that "maybe 0.001% of nan area of Los Angeles has problems." (Phillip Faraone/Getty Images)

Schwarzenegger told Kimmel that he agreed pinch nan late-night host's recent take connected nan existent authorities of LA, successful which Kimmel mocked nan media for portraying nan anti-ICE protests arsenic "some benignant of totalitarian hellscape" and condemned nan Trump management for deporting "people who person lived present their full lives."

"I wholly work together pinch you, by nan way, Jimmy, because they make it retired for illustration it is simply a warfare area — nan full Los Angeles — nan full metropolis aliases nan county," he argued. "The truth of nan matter is it's possibly for illustration 0.001% of nan area of Los Angeles has problems and there's a protest."

Kimmel agreed pinch Schwarzenegger and took his statement a measurement further, claiming that "none of Los Angeles is simply a warfare zone."

The "Terminator" prima past claimed that nan anti-ICE protests wouldn't person moreover happened "if nan politicians would do nan work," arguing that broad migration betterment has been kicked down nan roadworthy by some sides of nan aisle for decades.

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National Guard and DHS constabulary guidelines defender extracurricular nan Metropolitan Detention Center, Wednesday, June 11, 2025, successful Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

"Democrats and nan Republicans — some of nan parties — person nary liking successful solving this problem [comprehensive migration reform] because they usage that to raise money," he claimed. "So what they do is they conscionable support pointing nan digit astatine each other, and past they're amazed if each of a abrupt we are utilizing our mediate digit connected them."

Schwarzenegger went connected to analogize nan symbols of nan 2 parties, noting that nan Democratic Party is symbolized by a "jackass" and nan Republican Party an elephant — which leaves "a heap of dump" wherever it goes.

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"And I conscionable get very frustrated, because we nonstop these politicians to Washington to lick nan problems, and each they are is — alternatively of nationalist servants, they’re statement servants," nan character asserted. "I deliberation this is really nan bad point astir it, you know? It should beryllium nationalist servants."

Fox News' Michael Dorgan contributed to this report.