--- 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: 2026-10-06T09:26:07.123Z 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=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 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=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read Hillary Clinton's Speech on Donald Trump and National Security > Sponsored content. 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Clearly enjoying herself, a confident Hillary Clinton unleashed a comprehensive indictment of Donald Trump’s foreign policy on Thursday and questioned his credentials to serve as the President._  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Jun 2, 2016 8:25 PM UTC Clearly enjoying herself, a confident Hillary Clinton unleashed a comprehensive indictment of Donald Trump’s foreign policy on Thursday and questioned his credentials to serve as the President.  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: --- > “” --- ## Transcript [ APPLAUSE ] I believe the person the Republicans have nominated for president cannot do the job. [ APPLAUSE ] Donald Trump's ideas aren't just different, they are dangerously incoherent. They're not even ideas, just a series of bizarre rants Personal feuds and outright lies. He's not just unprepared, he's temperamentally unfit. Donald Trump doesn't know the first thing about Iran or its nuclear program. Ask him. It'll become very clear, very quickly. There's no risk of people losing their lives if you blow up a golf course deal. [ LAUGH ] Just like being interviewed on the same episode of 60 Minutes As Putin was, is not the same thing as actually with Putin. His economic plans would add more than 30 trillion, that's trillion with a t, 30 trillion dollars to our national debt over the next 20 years. He has a lot of ideas about who to blame. But no clue about what to do. A Trump presidency would embolden in ISIS. We cannot take that risk. This isn't reality television. This is actual reality. I don't understand Donald's bizarre fascination with dictators and strong men who have no love for America. He said you got to give. Kim Jong- un credit for taking over North Korea, something he did by murdering everyone he saw as a threat, including his own uncle, which Donald described gleefully like he was recapping an action movie. Traitor. And he said, if he were grading Vladimir Putin as a leader he'd give him an A. Now I will leave it to the psychiatrists to explain his affection for tyrants. We all know the tools Donald Trump brings to the table, bragging, mocking, composing nasty tweets. I'm willing to bet he's writing a few right now. 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