--- title: Rudy Giuliani: Former New York Mayor Talks Obama Comment description: He recently said he doesn’t believe President Obama “loves America” canonical: https://time.com/3716050/rudy-giuliani-obama-remarks/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-20T02:12:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T04:33:58.150Z article:section: Politics og:title: Rudy Giuliani Tries to Clarify His Obama Comment og:description: He recently said he doesn’t believe President Obama “loves America” og:url: https://time.com/3716050/rudy-giuliani-obama-remarks/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltddfdcbc8e3f48a9b/6987802f428a9ee437cc73ee/giuliani.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Rudy Giuliani og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Rudy Giuliani Tries to Clarify His Obama Comment twitter:description: He recently said he doesn’t believe President Obama “loves America” twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltddfdcbc8e3f48a9b/6987802f428a9ee437cc73ee/giuliani.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Rudy Giuliani Tries to Clarify His Obama Comment by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Feb 20, 2015 2:12 AM UTC  Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani speaks in New York in 2014. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani speaks in New York in 2014.John Minchillo—AP by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Feb 20, 2015 2:12 AM UTC Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani wants to set the record straight. In the wake of his recent comment, in which he said he doesn’t believe President Barack Obama “[loves America](http://time.com/3714734/rudy-giuliani-barack-obama/),” Giuliani called into [_Bloomberg Politics_](http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-02-20/rudy-giuliani-backs-off-assertion-that-obama-doesn-t-love-america)’ _All Due Respect_ to try and clarify what he actually intended to say. “Well actually, if I could express it more clearly, what I mean is he doesn’t express it,” Giuliani said. “I shouldn’t say that the president does or does not love anything. I don’t know, I’m not a psychiatrist, and he doesn’t have one and he doesn’t need one.” The former mayor said he doesn’t “doubt” that Obama loves the United States in the sense that he’s “a patriot, he believes in the Constitution, and he’s going to follow the laws of the United States.” Still, he didn’t back away from the gist of his earlier remarks: “from the way he talks, it sounds to me like a guy who has trouble expressing love for America,” Giuliani said. [Hear the full interview at _Bloomberg_](http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-02-20/rudy-giuliani-backs-off-assertion-that-obama-doesn-t-love-america) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3716050/rudy-giuliani-obama-remarks/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3716050/rudy-giuliani-obama-remarks/"},"headline":"Rudy Giuliani Tries to Clarify His Obama Comment","datePublished":"2015-02-20T02:12:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T04:33:58.150Z","description":"\"What I mean is he doesn’t express it\"","url":"https://time.com/3716050/rudy-giuliani-obama-remarks/","keywords":["republicans","Love","America","President Obama"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltddfdcbc8e3f48a9b/6987802f428a9ee437cc73ee/giuliani.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltddfdcbc8e3f48a9b/6987802f428a9ee437cc73ee/giuliani.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Rudy Giuliani","caption":"Rudy Giuliani","creditText":"John Minchillo—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/republicans/","name":"republicans"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3716050/rudy-giuliani-obama-remarks/","name":"Rudy Giuliani Tries to Clarify His Obama Comment"}}]}] ```