--- title: Donald Trump Defends Carly Fiorina Face Insult description: "I'm talking about persona. I'm not talking about look." canonical: https://time.com/4029266/donald-trump-carly-fiorina-defense/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-10T14:15:12.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:41:48.728Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Defends Carly Fiorina Face Comment og:description: "I'm talking about persona. 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Donald Trump at a Tea Party Patriots rally against the Iran nuclear deal on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 9, 2015. Andrew Harrer—Bloomberg via Getty Images by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Sep 10, 2015 2:15 PM UTC Donald Trump says he was talking about Carly Fiorina’s “persona” – not her looks – when he suggested that voters won’t select the only woman in the GOP field because of “that face.” [In a new interview in _Rolling Stone_](http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/trump-seriously-20150909?page=13) released late Wednesday, GOP frontrunner Trump said of the former HP chief “Look at that face!?” “Would anyone _vote_ for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next _president_?!” the magazine quotes Trump as saying while he and his staff watch a television appearance by Fiorina. The real estate mogul reportedly added: “I mean, she’s a woman, and I’m not… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/carly-fiorina-responds-after-donald-trump-insults-her-looks-n424801?cid=par-time-article%5F20150910) ## Transcript Rosie O'Donnell's disgusting, I mean both inside and out. You take a look at her, she's a slob. She talks like a truck driver. So he could have been born in Kenya and gone over to the United States. And everybody wants to be a US citizen. And his grandparents put an ad in saying he was born in the United States. He didn't kill Bin Laden. He gets so much credit for that. Ok excuse me. He had the guts to make that decision. And the genius. Excuse me. Guts. First of all Vince, your grapefruits are no match for my Trump Towers. They're bringing drugs They're bringing crime, they're rapist, and some I assume are good people, and I love the Mexican people. I've had thousands of Mexicans working for me. I sell apartments for millions of dollars to people from Mexico. They love me, they love me. [ CROSSTALK ]. He's a war hero cuz he was captured. I like people that weren't captured, okay? I hate to tell you this. And I see your Senator. What a stiff? What a Stiff? Lindsay Graham. I'm not using the lobbyists, I'm not using donors. I don't care. I'm really rich. I show you that in this suit. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4029266/donald-trump-carly-fiorina-defense/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4029266/donald-trump-carly-fiorina-defense/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Defends 'Look at That Face' Remark About Carly Fiorina","datePublished":"2015-09-10T14:15:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:41:48.728Z","description":"\"I'm talking about persona. 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