--- title: Donald Trump: Bernie Sanders Weak for Letting Activists Disrupt Speech description: Donald Trump said Bernie Sanders "showed such weakness" when he let two Black Lives Matter activists disrupted his speech over the weekend. canonical: https://time.com/3993540/donald-trump-bernie-sanders-black-lives-matter/ author: Jack Linshi article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-12T00:35:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:47:08.636Z article:section: Politics og:title: Trump: Sanders Is Weak for Letting Activists Disrupt Speech og:description: "That's not going to happen to Trump" og:url: https://time.com/3993540/donald-trump-bernie-sanders-black-lives-matter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Trump: Sanders Is Weak for Letting Activists Disrupt Speech twitter:description: "That's not going to happen to Trump" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Donald Trump: Bernie Sanders 'Showed Such Weakness' Letting Activists Disrupt Speech > Sponsored content. 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Brief is free at time.com/newsletters.  by [Jack Linshi](https://time.com/author/jack-linshi/)  ## Jack Linshi Aug 12, 2015 12:35 AM UTC  by [Jack Linshi](https://time.com/author/jack-linshi/)  ## Jack Linshi Aug 12, 2015 12:35 AM UTC Republican presidential [frontrunner](http://time.com/3991306/donald-trump-poll-reuters-ipsos/) Donald Trump said Tuesday that his Democratic rival Bernie Sanders “showed such weakness” when he allowed [two Black Lives Matter activists](http://time.com/3989917/black-lives-matter-protest-bernie-sanders-seattle/) to seize his microphone and disrupt his speech over the weekend. “I thought that was disgusting. That showed such weakness, the way he was taken away by two young women,” Trump said during a press conference in Michigan. “That will never happen with me. I don’t know if I’ll do the fighting myself, or if other people will, but that was a disgrace.” > [](https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/631250758504026113) The real estate mogul’s criticism follows the disruption of the first of Sanders’ two rallies in Seattle on Saturday, when the two activists shoved aside the Vermont Senator and took the microphone to call for criminal justice reform. 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