--- 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: 2026-08-19T07:46:47.298Z 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'  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Dec 22, 2015 4:57 PM UTC  Hillary Clinton speaks during a Democratic presidential primary debate, Dec. 19, 2015, at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H. Hillary Clinton speaks during a Democratic presidential primary debate, Dec. 19, 2015, at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H.Jim Cole—AP  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/) ```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":"2026-08-19T07:46:47.298Z","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":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/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'"}}]}] ```