(3 Jun 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Vienna, Austria – 3 June 2025
1. Wide of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tony Blair at photo op
2. Mid of Schwarzenegger (left) and Blair (right)
3. Wide of photo op and media
4. Mid of Schwarzenegger (left), partner Heather Milligan (middle), and Blair (right)
5. Wide of presenter announcing Schwarzenegger
6. Close of smartphone
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Arnold Schwarzenegger, former California governor:
“You know what’s interesting is that every time I talk lately to environmentalists and the policy people – they say to me: Arnold, what is the point of fighting for a clean environment when the government of the United States says climate change is a hoax and coal and oil is the future? When the politicians in Washington don’t care? You know what I say to them? Exactly what I said in my movie Kindergarten Cop to the kids. Stop Whining, stop whining.”
8. Mid of camera operator and audience
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Arnold Schwarzenegger, former California governor:
“You can’t just sit around and make excuses because one guy in a very nice White House on Pennsylvania Avenue doesn’t agree with you. I know all of you are thinking now, I hope that Arnold attacks Trump and says some really terrible things about Trump. Right? But that’s not my style. First of all, I have a rule. I do not criticize a president outside of our borders. No matter who it is and what party he belongs to or she belongs to. Second of all, I know that the people are sick and tired of the whining and the complaining, and the doom and gloom. They want heroes. They don’t want more complaints, that’s not what we want. And that’s not what we need.”
10. Wide of people applauding with Schwarzenegger on stage
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Arnold Schwarzenegger, former California governor:
“We have to win the people over. And the only way we win the peoples’ hearts and minds is by showing them action that makes their lives better. I’m not talking about making their lives better in 20 years from now, I’m talking about making their lives better now.”
12. Wide of Schwarzenegger and Tony Blair getting on stage
13. Close of Schwarzenegger’s cowboy boots
14. Wide of Blair (left) and Schwarzenegger (right) on stage
STORYLINE:
Former California governor and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger said “stop whining” to environmentalists who despair at the approach of President Donald Trump’s administration.
He said on Tuesday that he keeps hearing from environmentalists and policy experts lately: “What is the point of fighting for a clean environment when the government of the United States says climate change is a hoax and coal and oil is the future?”
Schwarzenegger told the Austrian World Summit, an event he helps organize, that his response is: “Stop whining and get to work.”
He pointed to examples of local and regional governments and companies taking their own action, including his own administration in California, and argued that 70% of pollution is reduced at local or state level.
“You can’t just sit around and make excuses because one guy in a very nice White House on Pennsylvania Avenue doesn’t agree with you,” he said.
Schwarzenegger added that attacking the president is “not my style” and he doesn’t criticize any president when outside the U.S.
“I know that the people are sick and tired of the whining and the complaining and the doom and gloom,” he said. “The only way we win the people’s hearts and minds is by showing them action that makes their lives better.”
AP video by Philipp Jenne
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