--- title: Donald Trump: 'I Think Islam Hates Us' description: GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump accused Islam of hating the western world in an interview Wednesday canonical: https://time.com/4253839/donald-trump-islam-hates-us-interview/ author: Justin Worland article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-10T14:31:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:46:23.514Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump: 'I Think Islam Hates Us' og:description: GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump accused Islam of hating the western world in an interview Wednesday og:url: https://time.com/4253839/donald-trump-islam-hates-us-interview/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd38293d6cb04a78f/69888a72428a9e2cbfcd1bd2/donald-trump-islam-muslim-ban.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Donald Trump Islam Muslim Ban og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump: 'I Think Islam Hates Us' twitter:description: GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump accused Islam of hating the western world in an interview Wednesday twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd38293d6cb04a78f/69888a72428a9e2cbfcd1bd2/donald-trump-islam-muslim-ban.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump: 'I Think Islam Hates Us' > Sponsored content. 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Trump holds a press conference at Trump National Golf Club Jupiter on March 8, 2016 in Jupiter, Fla.Mychal Watts—WireImage  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Mar 10, 2016 2:31 PM UTC Donald Trump accused Islam of hating the western world in an interview Wednesday, the latest in the GOP Presidential candidate’s attacks on the religion. “I think Islam hates us,” Trump [told Anderson Cooper on CNN](http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/09/politics/donald-trump-islam-hates-us/), after the host asked him whether Islam was at war with the West. “There is a tremendous hatred there. We have to get to the bottom of it.” Cooper then asked whether Trump believed the hatred was in the Islamic religion itself. “You’re going to have to figure that out,” Trump replied. “You’ll get another Pulitzer.” “We can’t allow people who have this hatred coming into the United States and of people who are not Muslim.” Trump argued that “it’s very hard to separate” radical Islam from the mainstream practice of the religion. “It’s very hard to define,” he said. “Because you don’t know who’s who.” The GOP frontrunner has previously [come](http://time.com/4140558/paul-ryan-donald-trump-muslims/) [under fire](http://time.com/4245957/donald-trump-islamophobia-award/) from people across the political spectrum for his comments on Islam. 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