Mocks Schwarzenegger's Apprentice ratings during National Prayer Breakfast remarks

Addressing the National Prayer Breakfast on February 2, 2017 -- a bipartisan tradition dating to 1953 intended as a moment of national and religious unity -- Trump used part of his remarks to mock actor Arnold Schwarzenegger's performance as his successor on "The Celebrity Apprentice," saying, "They hired a big movie star, Arnold Schwarzenegger, to take my place, and we know how that turned out: The ratings went right down the tubes. It's been a total disaster," before telling the gathered faith leaders he wanted to "pray for Arnold ... for those ratings." Schwarzenegger, who had criticized Trump's immigration and travel-ban policies in the preceding weeks, responded with a video suggesting the two "switch jobs." The remarks drew notice for redirecting a solemn, cross-partisan civic-religious event toward a personal grievance over television ratings and Trump's own commercial legacy, a pattern of using official platforms for score-settling that recurred later in the month in his Nordstrom and press attacks.

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