--- description: "I would knock the hell out of ISIS" title: Donald Trump Says He'd 'Take Out' Terrorists' Families image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1ec4482db6068798/698873662dce0192169e6bbf/donald-trump1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Politics](/section/politics/) ## Politics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [2016 Election](/tag/2016-election/) ## 2016 Election Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Donald Trump Says He'd 'Take Out' Terrorists' Families by [ashley Ross](/author/ashley-ross/) ## ashley Ross Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 2, 2015 1:43 PM CUT  Donald Trump seen during a campaign rally in Macon, Ga., Nov. 30, 2015. Donald Trump seen during a campaign rally in Macon, Ga., Nov. 30, 2015.Christopher Aluka Berry—Reuters by [ashley Ross](/author/ashley-ross/) ## ashley Ross Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 2, 2015 1:43 PM CUT Donald Trump said Wednesday that he’d like to “take out” the families of terrorists. “I would knock the hell out of ISIS… \[and\] when you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families,” the Republican presidential candidate said on _Fox & Friends_. “I say ISIS is our number one threat, we have a president who doesn’t know what he is doing and all he’s worried about is climate change, he thinks climate change is something that’s going to go kill us.” Trump, [who regained his standing atop the GOP field](http://time.com/4132141/donald-trump-ben-carson-poll-quinnipiac/ "undefined") in a new national poll out Wednesday, has enjoyed a boost thanks in part to heated rhetoric about Muslims following the terrorist attacks in Paris last month. He said he was concerned about civilian casualties but that he believed militants are using civilians as human shields. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4132368/donald-trump-isis-bombing/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4132368/donald-trump-isis-bombing/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Says He'd 'Take Out' Terrorists' Families","datePublished":"2015-12-02T13:43:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T13:02:01.860Z","description":"\"I would knock the hell out of ISIS\"","url":"https://time.com/4132368/donald-trump-isis-bombing/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic","2016 Republicans"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1ec4482db6068798/698873662dce0192169e6bbf/donald-trump1.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":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1ec4482db6068798/698873662dce0192169e6bbf/donald-trump1.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":"Christopher Aluka Berry—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":"/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/4132368/donald-trump-isis-bombing/","name":"Donald Trump Says He'd 'Take Out' Terrorists' Families"}}]}] ```