How many buildings Schwarzenegger built?
How many Golf resorts has he built around the world?
How many foreign trades has Schwarzenegger done?
How many products have the Schwarzenegger name?
There is no comparison.
One had no experience except as an actor, before running for governor. The other has tons and tons of real life main street economy.
Your comparison is just as bad as comparing Obama with Cruz. Both first term senators running for president. But the comparison ends right there. The differences between them are enormous.
Just as a point of amusement. Donald Trump has a star on the Hollywood Walk of fame. “Just for playing himself”
One of the PAC formed to support him is a conglomerate of technical people who hope to produce historical videos of his life.
There is no comparison.
One had no experience except as an actor, before running for governor. The other has tons and tons of real life main street economy.
I did not compare Trump's accomplishment with Schwarzenegger's. I compared the mindset of Trump's voters with Schwarzenegger's.
There is a LOT of comparison between Trump and Arnold. How many blockbuster movies (don't look now, but those are all products that have the Schwarzenegger name) that won the hearts of Americans did Trump make? No -- Trump developed golf courses and big buildings!
The dif is that Arnold came here from Austria as a young man with not much but a decent business head, dreams, and self-discipline, whereas Trump was BORN the son of a wealthy businessman.
Schwarzenegger pulled himself up from his own bootstraps (which Trump did not), he was a pretty good businessman before he became a movie star, he was every bit as much an entertainer as Trump -- and he said things I wanted to hear, he could win whereas the great conservative Tom McClintock would probably lose even if every registered Republican in California voted for him -- Arnold's big draw was his cross-over appeal. I voted for him enthusiastically because I believed in him the same way you do in Trump -- his track record of very large-scale successes, and I wanted to ignore his leftist tendencies, so I did, and it was dumb of me. It was naïve of me.
The accomplishments were different in details, but the same in that they demonstrated, they proved, a very great ability to achieve difficult goals. Arnold did it, Trump did it, but Arnold wasn't born into it.
I see Trump supporters, their hopeful trust, their projection of their own politics onto a guy who looks and sounds fabulous -- and I see myself back when Arnold was running for Governor and I happily voted for him only to be disillusioned.
Yes, there are HUGE comparisons between the two, most quintessentially, BOTH are famous in America because of being entertainers via pop media.