--- title: Hillary Clinton Aide Calls Donald Trump Language "Degrading" description: Hillary Clinton's communications director has fired back at Donald Trump for recent comments he has made about Clinton. canonical: https://time.com/4158825/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-bathroom-disgusting/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-22T16:57:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-05T08:40:30.766Z article:section: Politics og:title: Clinton Aide Calls Trump Language 'Degrading' og:description: He used a vulgar Yiddish-derived word to describe her 2008 loss. og:url: https://time.com/4158825/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-bathroom-disgusting/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1d4401ad9c665574/6988763d8e0601529c463d94/clinton-debate.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2869 og:image:height: 1614 og:image:alt: Dem 2016 Debate og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Clinton Aide Calls Trump Language 'Degrading' twitter:description: He used a vulgar Yiddish-derived word to describe her 2008 loss. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1d4401ad9c665574/6988763d8e0601529c463d94/clinton-debate.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Clinton Aide Calls Trump Language 'Degrading' > Sponsored content. 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Donald Trump_  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Dec 22, 2015 4:57 PM UTC Donald Trump  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Dec 22, 2015 4:57 PM UTC Hillary Clinton’s communications director has fired back at Donald Trump for recent comments he has made about Clinton, including calling her bathroom break during the third Democratic debate “[disgusting](http://time.com/4158303/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-disgusting-schlonged/).” Jennifer Palmieri, Clinton’s top spokesperson, tweeted this Tuesday, calling Trump’s language humiliating and “degrading”: > [](https://twitter.com/jmpalmieri/status/679314423098552320) Along with opining on her [bathroom break](http://time.com/4156185/democratic-debate-hillary-clinton-late/) at a rally Monday, Trump also used a vulgar word to describe Clinton’s loss in the Democratic primary to Barack Obama in 2008. “She was favored to win, and she got schlonged,” [he said](http://time.com/4158303/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-disgusting-schlonged/). **Read Next:** [_Donald Trump Calls Clinton’s Bathroom Break ‘Disgusting’_](http://time.com/4158303/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-disgusting-schlonged/) ## Transcript [00:01] I know where she went, it's disgusting, I don't wanna talk [00:05] about it. No, it's too disgusting, don't say it's disgusting, [00:09] let's not dwell, we wanna be very very straight up okay? [00:12] But I thought that, was that a weird deal? We're ready to [00:16] start, they were looking, they gave her very benefit of the [00:19] doubt Because it's ABC and she practically owns ABC. [00:23] She really does. Let me just tell you. I may win, I may not [00:27] win. Hillary, that's not a President, that's [00:31] not. She's not taking us, everything's that's been involved [00:35] in Hillary has been losses. You take a look. Even a race to [00:38] Obama. She was gonna beat Obama. I don't know who'd [00:42] be worse. I don't know. How does it get worse? But she [00:46] was gonna beat, she was favored to win and she got [00:48] chunged. She lost. I mean, she lost. But I watched her the [00:51] other night. It was hard, it was really hard cuz there were a [00:54] lot of other things on better, including reading books and [00:56] reading financial papers, which I actually enjoy reading. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4158825/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-bathroom-disgusting/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4158825/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-bathroom-disgusting/"},"headline":"Clinton Aide Calls Trump Language 'Degrading'","datePublished":"2015-12-22T16:57:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-10-05T08:40:30.766Z","description":"Hillary Clinton's communications director has fired back at Donald Trump for recent comments he has made about Clinton.","url":"https://time.com/4158825/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-bathroom-disgusting/","keywords":["Donald Trump","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1d4401ad9c665574/6988763d8e0601529c463d94/clinton-debate.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1d4401ad9c665574/6988763d8e0601529c463d94/clinton-debate.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Dem 2016 Debate","caption":"Dem 2016 Debate","creditText":"Jim Cole—AP","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":"https://time.com/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4158825/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-bathroom-disgusting/","name":"Clinton Aide Calls Trump Language 'Degrading'"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"TIME Raw: Trump Calls Clinton's Bathroom Break 'Disgusting'","description":"Donald Trump","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/qoVuMRNJ/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-12-22T12:58:19.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/qoVuMRNJ.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4158825/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-bathroom-disgusting/","duration":"PT59S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4158825/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-bathroom-disgusting/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```