--- title: Donald Trump Shifts Focus to Hillary Clinton description: Donald Trump has shifted his focus away from his primary opponents and onto the Republicans' likely foe in the general: Hillary Clinton. canonical: https://time.com/4164417/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-attacks/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-30T18:35:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-05T08:41:25.698Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Shifts Focus to Hillary Clinton og:description: As 2016 rapidly approaches. og:url: https://time.com/4164417/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-attacks/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt85f7cf2e11689fe0/698876f4cd1bba27886feb2b/donald-trump-virginia-gop-pledge.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 594 og:image:height: 334 og:image:alt: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to guests at a campaign rally on December 21, 2015 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Shifts Focus to Hillary Clinton twitter:description: As 2016 rapidly approaches. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt85f7cf2e11689fe0/698876f4cd1bba27886feb2b/donald-trump-virginia-gop-pledge.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Shifts Focus to Hillary Clinton > Sponsored content. 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Speaking at a rally in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, Tuesday afternoon, Trump called the former Secretary of State “theatrical” and said, “She just gives me a headache.” “I love, love, love having a woman president,” Trump said. “It can’t be her. She’s horrible.” Tensions have been boiling over between the two frontrunners in recent days, stemming from Trump’s late December comment that Clinton got “schlonged” in the 2008 primary. Clinton then said Trump has demonstrated “[a penchant for sexism](http://time.com/4161702/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-bill/)” and the outraged billionaire took to Twitter to bash Clinton’s husband, former president Bill Clinton, who was impeached for a sex scandal during his second term. > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/680908733455708160) > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/681447548133965824) **Read More:** [_Clinton Aide Calls Trump Language ‘Degrading’_](http://time.com/4158825/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-bathroom-disgusting/) Trump doubled down on his attacks on the 42nd president Tuesday, calling him “one of the great abusers of the world.” By attacking Bill Clinton, Trump sought to undermine Hillary Clinton’s use of what he called “the women card.” “For the last week she’s been hitting me really hard with the women card,” Trump said. “And I had to say OK, that’s enough.” “I’ll tell you who doesn’t like Hillary,” he continued. “Women don’t like Hillary. I see it all the time.” Trump took a few swings at his fellow Republican candidates, lobbing his usual “low-energy” insult at former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. But when he focused on an opponent during the hour-long speech, it was usually Clinton. This could be because he’s turning his eye towards the general election at the dawn of 2016, or more likely because he doesn’t want to give the other Republicans too much press before the first votes are cast in February. Whatever the reason, Trump foreshadowed that there is more to come for Clinton. “I haven’t even focused on her yet,” he said. **Read Next:** [_Honest Tea Will Remove Donald Trump Quote From Bottles_](http://time.com/4162579/honest-tea-donald-trump-quote/) ## Transcript [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Listen, Madam, President, man you imagine, oh, oh. [ LAUGH ] Belive me, women, if it's gotta be a woman, which I'm all in favor of someday. It shouldn't be Hillary. It shouldn't be Hillary. It shouldn't be Hillary. [ APPLAUSE ] We had to respond to Hillary She came out with that, no. She came out, remember she wrote, she said, he's demonstrated a pension, I demonstrated a pension for sexism. Can you believe it? Me! No body respects women more than Donald Trump, that I can tell you. Nobody, nobody. [ APPLAUSE ] And you know when she said that, I had no choice cuz I didn't start it. I had no choice, and I did have to mention her husband's situation. Okay? [ LAUGHTER ] [ APPLAUSE ] And that is now the biggest story on television by a factor of ten. So we have to do it, you can't let people push you around, you can't let people tell lies, can't do it. 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