Seriously?

Friday morning update: We may never know if this is all a publicity stunt or not, but our president had nothing better to do this morning than send out this tweet:

Yes, Arnold Schwarzenegger did a really bad job as Governor of California and even worse on the Apprentice...but at least he tried hard!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 3, 2017

So far, no response from Arnold. About Trump's tweeting, in an earlier post I wondered if there was any significance to which tweets are sent using his personal account (realDonaldTrump) and those that come out from the official presidential account (POTUS,) and we may have an answer. I read that the POTUS account is managed by staff, so the tweets are not really from him. Tweets from @realDonaldTrump are typed by his own little hands.

Thursday afternoon update: One more thing about Trump and The Apprentice. He's still an executive producer of the show, meaning prayers for higher ratings are really prayers for higher revenue for Donald Trump. His remarks are getting a lot of coverage and as shown below, Arnold weighed in almost immediately, which led to more coverage about their "feud." Wow, all of a sudden everyone is talking about The Apprentice, so much so that I actually wondered if this is all a publicity stunt cooked up by The Donald and The Arnold. It's not out of the question but I want to believe that after being married to Maria Shriver, son-in-law to Eunice Kennedy Shriver and brother-in-law to Tim Shriver, all of whom are devout Catholics, perhaps Arnold wouldn't be comfortable staging a publicity stunt at the National Prayer Breakfast. At least I hope not.

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At this morning's National Prayer Breakfast, the president asked for prayers for, wait for it... Arnold Schwarzenegger. Why? Is Arnold's health an issue? Is he having heart trouble again? No. Here's what the president said about Arnold: (The first two paragraphs are incomprehensible gibberish, but for the record, he's trying to introduce Apprentice producer Mark Burnett and his wife Roma Downey.)

I also want to thank my great friends the Roma. Where's Roma, beautiful Roma Downey, the voice of an angel. She's got the voice -- every time I hear that voice; it's so beautiful. That -- everything is so beautiful about Roma, including her husband because he's a special, special friend. Mark Burnett for the wonderful introduction.

So true, so true. I said to the agent, I'm sorry, the only thing wrong -- I actually got on the phone and fired him myself because he said, you don't want to do it, it'll never work, it'll never, ever work, you don't want to do it. I said, listen. When I really fired him after it became the number one show, it became so successful and he wanted a commission and he didn't want to this.

That's when I really said -- but we had tremendous success on The Apprentice. And when I ran for president, I had to leave the show. That's when I knew for sure that I was doing it. And they hired a big, big movie star, Arnold Schwarzenegger, to take my place. And we know how that turned out.

The ratings went down the tubes. It's been a total disaster and Mark will never, ever bet against Trump again. And I want to just pray for Arnold if we can, for those ratings, OK?

This is embarrassing (for Trump) on many levels, and it didn't take long for Arnold to respond:

The National Prayer Breakfast? pic.twitter.com/KYUqEZbJIE

— Arnold (@Schwarzenegger) February 2, 2017

I thought about ending this post with a humorous reference to the fact that maybe ratings for The Apprentice are tanking because it airs at the same time as The Bachelor, but I can't bring myself to do it. Trump really is the President of the United States and that is beginning to be truly terrifying.