--- title: Hillary Clinton: Transcript of Speech on Donald Trump description: Here's everything Hillary Clinton said about Donald Trump in her speech on national security on Thursday canonical: https://time.com/4355797/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-foreign-policy-speech-transcript/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-02T20:25:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T22:21:54.446Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read Hillary Clinton's Speech on Trump and National Security og:description: "Donald Trump’s ideas aren’t just different – they are dangerously incoherent" og:url: https://time.com/4355797/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-foreign-policy-speech-transcript/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte3ca4d2a4a5304a4/69889623a988cadd7a6b817a/hillary-clinton-transcript-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Hillary Clinton Delivers National Security Address In San Diego og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read Hillary Clinton's Speech on Trump and National Security twitter:description: "Donald Trump’s ideas aren’t just different – they are dangerously incoherent" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte3ca4d2a4a5304a4/69889623a988cadd7a6b817a/hillary-clinton-transcript-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read Hillary Clinton's Speech on Donald Trump and National Security  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Jun 2, 2016 8:25 PM UTC  Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers a national security address on June 2 in San Diego, California. Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers a national security address on June 2 in San Diego, California.Justin Sullivan/Getty Images  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Jun 2, 2016 8:25 PM UTC Hillary Clinton [tore into presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump](http://time.com/4355791/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-temperament/?xid=tcoshare) during a [speech on national security](http://time.com/4354529/hillary-clinton-foreign-policy-speech-donald-trump/?xid=homepage) Thursday, casting him as “unfit” for the presidency and offering a preview of her general election campaign message. “Donald Trump’s ideas aren’t just different – they are dangerously incoherent,” she said. “They’re not even really ideas – just a series of bizarre rants, personal feuds, and outright lies.” Here are her full remarks from the event in San Diego, California: --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4355797/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-foreign-policy-speech-transcript/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4355797/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-foreign-policy-speech-transcript/"},"headline":"Read Hillary Clinton's Speech on Donald Trump and National Security","datePublished":"2016-06-02T20:25:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T22:21:54.446Z","description":"\"Donald Trump’s ideas aren’t just different – they are dangerously incoherent\"","url":"https://time.com/4355797/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-foreign-policy-speech-transcript/","keywords":["Hillary Clinton","2016 Election topic","transcripts"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte3ca4d2a4a5304a4/69889623a988cadd7a6b817a/hillary-clinton-transcript-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte3ca4d2a4a5304a4/69889623a988cadd7a6b817a/hillary-clinton-transcript-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Hillary Clinton Delivers National Security Address In San Diego","caption":"Hillary Clinton Delivers National Security Address In San Diego","creditText":"Justin Sullivan/Getty Images","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":"https://time.com/4355797/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-foreign-policy-speech-transcript/","name":"Read Hillary Clinton's Speech on Donald Trump and National Security"}}]}] ```