--- title: Donald Trump Gets Twitter Trolled About Periods description: After controversial comments, Trump gets trolled on Twitter canonical: https://time.com/3992617/donald-trump-megyn-kelly-periods/ author: ashley Ross article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-11T16:45:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:23:17.266Z og:title: People Are Tweeting to Donald Trump About Periods og:description: After controversial comments, Trump gets trolled on Twitter og:url: https://time.com/3992617/donald-trump-megyn-kelly-periods/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc368e078528ea98c/69885ebecd1bba17f96fcad1/donaldtrump_republican.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4892 og:image:height: 2752 og:image:alt: Republican 2016 U.S. presidential candidate businessman Donald Trump waits for the debate to resume during a commercial break at the first official Republican presidential candidates debate of the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign in Cleveland og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: People Are Tweeting to Donald Trump About Periods twitter:description: After controversial comments, Trump gets trolled on Twitter twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc368e078528ea98c/69885ebecd1bba17f96fcad1/donaldtrump_republican.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # People Are Tweeting Donald Trump About Their Periods > Sponsored content. 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Republican 2016 U.S. presidential candidate, businessman Donald Trump waits for the debate to resume at the first official Republican presidential candidates debate in Aug. 6, 2015 at Cleveland.Brian Snyder—Reuters by [ashley Ross](https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/) ## ashley Ross Aug 11, 2015 4:45 PM UTC A hashtag about periods is circulating on Twitter following Donald Trump’s controversial remarks about [Megyn Kelly](http://time.com/3989656/donald-trump-redstate-gathering/) during the GOP debate. “You know, you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever,” Trump told CNN host Don Lemon on Friday, adding that Kelly was “off base.” Trump has since released a statement that he was referring to her nose when he said “wherever,” and not to what many interpreted as menstruation. But that didn’t stop Erick Erickson from uninviting Trump from attending a conservative event, RedState Gathering. And it hasn’t stopped people on Twitter from trolling Trump either. Amber Gordon, a Hillary Clinton supporter who founded the website [Femsplain](https://femsplain.com/) about a year ago, said she was in bed and feeling uncomfortable because of her period when she saw Trump’s remarks and decided to Tweet at him. > [](https://twitter.com/missambear/status/630126910853484544) “I remember in middle school when guys would say ‘oh, you must be on your period!'” Gordon told TIME. “It’s what year and we’re still using periods as an insult?” Since the first Tweet, the hashtag has taken off with women and men, and Gordon created a [website,](http://periodsarenotaninsult.com/) complete with a red, glittery letters and text that reads: “Are you someone who gets a period? On it now? Great. Let @realDonaldTrump know and keep track of your flow at the same time!” “A lot of good discussions have happened in the hashtag, and I think it’s important for people who get periods to discuss this,” she says. “I hope the hashtag can transcend Donald Trump.” See some of the Tweets below. > [](https://twitter.com/FatGirlvsWorld/status/631104183102492674) > [](https://twitter.com/studioloraine/status/630949288118484992) > [](https://twitter.com/trisarahtops05/status/630511778183684101) > [](https://twitter.com/BaBaBaBattey/status/631136911533416449) > [](https://twitter.com/Vspiz/status/631137299103907840) _Read next:_ [_Conan Made the Donald Trump Ovulation Predictor of Your Nightmares_](http://time.com/3992393/conan-obrien-donald-trump-ovulation-test-kit/?iid=time%5Freadnext) [_Listen to the most important stories of the day_](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/autoplay/?xid=spl-fullbrief-article) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3992617/donald-trump-megyn-kelly-periods/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3992617/donald-trump-megyn-kelly-periods/"},"headline":"People Are Tweeting Donald Trump About Their Periods","datePublished":"2015-08-11T16:45:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:23:17.266Z","description":"Trump is getting trolled","url":"https://time.com/3992617/donald-trump-megyn-kelly-periods/","keywords":["Newsfeed","politics"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc368e078528ea98c/69885ebecd1bba17f96fcad1/donaldtrump_republican.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"ashley Ross","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc368e078528ea98c/69885ebecd1bba17f96fcad1/donaldtrump_republican.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Republican 2016 U.S. presidential candidate businessman Donald Trump waits for the debate to resume during a commercial break at the first official Republican presidential candidates debate of the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign in Cleveland","caption":"Republican 2016 U.S. presidential candidate businessman Donald Trump waits for the debate to resume during a commercial break at the first official Republican presidential candidates debate of the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign in Cleveland","creditText":"Brian Snyder—Reuters","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":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3992617/donald-trump-megyn-kelly-periods/","name":"People Are Tweeting Donald Trump About Their Periods"}}]}] ```