--- 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  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 I know where she went, it's disgusting, I don't wanna talk about it. No, it's too disgusting, don't say it's disgusting, let's not dwell, we wanna be very very straight up okay? But I thought that, was that a weird deal? We're ready to start, they were looking, they gave her very benefit of the doubt Because it's ABC and she practically owns ABC. She really does. Let me just tell you. I may win, I may not win. Hillary, that's not a President, that's not. She's not taking us, everything's that's been involved in Hillary has been losses. You take a look. Even a race to Obama. She was gonna beat Obama. I don't know who'd be worse. I don't know. How does it get worse? But she was gonna beat, she was favored to win and she got chunged. She lost. I mean, she lost. But I watched her the other night. 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