--- title: Donald Trump Trolls Critics on Instagram description: Republican presidential candidate and reality television star Donald Trump is trolling his frequent critics in the media. canonical: https://time.com/3955978/donald-trump-instagram-troll/ author: Zeke Miller article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-13T19:06:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:47:14.113Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Trolls Critics on Instagram og:description: He cited Bill Maher and Jon Stewart. og:url: https://time.com/3955978/donald-trump-instagram-troll/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd98948739cb7305b/69885a8c35ba6f7997c0e26f/donald_trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2900 og:image:height: 1631 og:image:alt: Donald Trump og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Trolls Critics on Instagram twitter:description: He cited Bill Maher and Jon Stewart. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd98948739cb7305b/69885a8c35ba6f7997c0e26f/donald_trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Trolls Critics on Instagram by [Zeke Miller](https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/) ## Zeke Miller Jul 13, 2015 7:06 PM UTC  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump finishes up speaking before a crowd of 3,500 Saturday, July 11, 2015, in Phoenix. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump finishes up speaking before a crowd of 3,500 Saturday, July 11, 2015, in Phoenix.Ross D. Franklin—AP by [Zeke Miller](https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/) ## Zeke Miller Jul 13, 2015 7:06 PM UTC Republican presidential candidate and reality television star Donald Trump is trolling his frequent critics in the media, using clips of them to assert he’s not going anywhere. In an Instagram posting Monday, Trump clips video from MSNBC host Chris Matthews, Rev. Al Sharpton and comedians Jon Stewart and Bill Maher highlighting his improbable rise in national polling. It follows a speech on Saturday in Phoenix in which Trump repeatedly called out critics in the media and elsewhere by name. **Read Next:** [_Donald Trump Outdoes Himself in Defiant Phoenix Speech_](http://time.com/3954739/donald-trump-phoenix/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3955978/donald-trump-instagram-troll/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3955978/donald-trump-instagram-troll/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Trolls Critics on Instagram","datePublished":"2015-07-13T19:06:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:47:14.113Z","description":"Republican presidential candidate and reality television star Donald Trump is trolling his frequent critics in the media.","url":"https://time.com/3955978/donald-trump-instagram-troll/","keywords":["Donald Trump","2016 Election"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd98948739cb7305b/69885a8c35ba6f7997c0e26f/donald_trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Zeke Miller","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd98948739cb7305b/69885a8c35ba6f7997c0e26f/donald_trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Donald Trump","caption":"Donald Trump","creditText":"Ross D. Franklin—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/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3955978/donald-trump-instagram-troll/","name":"Donald Trump Trolls Critics on Instagram"}}]}] ```