From Fox News: Arnold Schwarzenegger shared his fears about the future of democracy as he reflected on the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
On Monday, the 78-year-old actor and former Republican governor of California joined the University of Southern California’s interim President Beong-Soo Kim for a live discussion as part of USC’s International Day of Democracy celebrations.
During their conversation, before an audience of university students and faculty members, Kim asked Schwarzenegger about his reaction to the murder of the conservative activist on a Utah university campus last week.
“I was very, very upset that someone’s life was taken because they have a different opinion. It’s just unbelievable,” Schwarzenegger said in a clip from the event he shared on X Tuesday.
Speaking of Kirk, the actor and former governor said, “This was a great communicator, a great advocate for the right — for Republican causes. He had such a great way of communicating with the students that agreed or disagreed with him.”
“It’s a human being. A human life is gone. And he was a great father, a great husband. I was thinking about his children. They will only be reading about him now, instead of him reading to them bedtime stories,” he added.
Condemning the political violence, Schwarzenegger warned, “We have to acknowledge that the cause of all of this is the social media companies that are dividing us, the mainstream media companies that are dividing us.”
“The political parties — the Democrats that are dividing us, the Republicans that are dividing us. We’re getting hit from so many different angles, and we have to be very careful that we don’t get closer to that cliff. Because when you fall down that cliff — down there, there is no democracy,” he warned.
Sharing a video of his remarks, Schwarzenegger noted that he didn’t get any heckling at the event, but said the audience of nearly 500 students was respectful.
USC President Kim asked me for my thoughts about Charlie Kirk at USC’s Democracy Day celebration.
There’s something more important than my message in this video. It’s what you don’t hear. No heckling. No disrespect. No shouting.
I know that social media shows us the worst of… pic.twitter.com/pLgEFSLubA
— Arnold (@Schwarzenegger) September 16, 2025
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