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AEven if he were asked again, Schwarzenegger said he wouldn’t want to do it.

“With Trump being involved in the show, people have a bad taste and don’t want to participate as a spectator or as a sponsor or in any other way support the show,” he said in an interview with the Empire website.

“It’s a very divisive period now, and I think this show got caught up in all that division.”

Shannon Coulter, co-founder of the #GrabYourWallet Trump protest, agreed. The effort aims to spur consumer boycotts of companies doing business with the Trump family, including sponsors of

“We applaud Mr Schwarzenegger’s decision to leave the show and to distance himself from the toxic Trump brand,” she said. When

ended its season last month, Trump tweeted that Schwarzenegger “did a really bad job as governor of California and even worse on but at least he tried hard”.

NBC had no immediate comment about whether the show would return with a new host. RNOLD Schwarzenegger said on Friday he’s through with

The New Celebrity Apprentice, and he’s blaming President Donald Trump for the television reality show’s recent poor performance.

The former California governor said he wouldn’t mind working with NBC and producer Mark Burnett again “on a show that doesn’t have this baggage”.

Schwarzenegger replaced the president as host of the show, but Trump remained as an executive producer. The president taunted Schwarzenegger for the show’s poor performance in the ratings, even mocking him during an address at the National Prayer Breakfast.

The show, which wrapped up its 15th season last month, averaged fewer than five million viewers per episode. That was lower than any other incarnation except for a 2010 Trump-hosted edition without celebrities, and the most poorly-rated edition among the youthful viewers NBC cares most about, the Nielsen company said.

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