--- title: Donald Trump Live Tweeted the Democratic Debate description: And The Donald wasn't pleased. canonical: https://time.com/4072643/trump-democratic-debate/ author: Daniel White article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-14T02:52:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-14T00:33:33.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Live Tweeted the Democratic Debate og:description: And The Donald wasn't pleased. og:url: https://time.com/4072643/trump-democratic-debate/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf49c261164f62e9c/698864d1524fc0283edf4a0e/150923_ff_trumpsaysgovprofits.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2100 og:image:height: 1181 og:image:alt: 150923_FF_TrumpSaysGovProfits og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Live Tweeted the Democratic Debate twitter:description: And The Donald wasn't pleased. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf49c261164f62e9c/698864d1524fc0283edf4a0e/150923_ff_trumpsaysgovprofits.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Tweets Up a Storm as Democrats Debate > Sponsored content. 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Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a town hall event at Rochester Recreational Arena September 17, 2015 in Rochester, New Hampshire.Darren McCollester—Getty Images by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Updated: Dec 14, 2023 12:33 AM UTCPublished: Oct 14, 2015 2:52 AM UTC Donald Trump made a calculated attempt to steal the show during Tuesday’s Democratic Debate—even though he wasn’t on stage. > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/654089397193863168) The Republican frontrunner live-tweeted the debate, egging on his followers and taking shots at the Democrats, but he wasn’t too pleased by what he saw. Here are some of Trump’s best Tweets: On Sanders saying that “black lives matter:” > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/654118384121065473) Hillary Clinton’s email scandal: > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/654112910923403264) > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/654113273105776640) On the Democratic field: > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/654111504862703617) > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/654101562948763648) > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/654102127921524736) > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/654114913888174081) On how bored he was: > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/654095994842447872) By the end of the night, Trump had [added some 60,000 Twitter followers](https://twitter.com/vocativ/status/654121106484424704) according to analysis by Vocativ. Sanders had accumulated a further 28,000 while Clinton attracted a mere 10,000 new followers. And in a surprise tweet Wednesday morning, Trump praised Hillary Clinton’s performance: > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/654309679045181440) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4072643/trump-democratic-debate/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4072643/trump-democratic-debate/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Tweets Up a Storm as Democrats Debate","datePublished":"2015-10-14T02:52:22.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-14T00:33:33.000Z","description":"And The Donald wasn't pleased.","url":"https://time.com/4072643/trump-democratic-debate/","keywords":["2016 Election","Newsfeed","2016 Election","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf49c261164f62e9c/698864d1524fc0283edf4a0e/150923_ff_trumpsaysgovprofits.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel White","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-white/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf49c261164f62e9c/698864d1524fc0283edf4a0e/150923_ff_trumpsaysgovprofits.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"150923_FF_TrumpSaysGovProfits","caption":"Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a town hall event at Rochester Recreational Arena September 17, 2015 in Rochester,","creditText":"Darren McCollester—Getty Images","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/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4072643/trump-democratic-debate/","name":"Donald Trump Tweets Up a Storm as Democrats Debate"}}]}] ```