--- title: Muslim Ban: Hillary Clinton Speech Criticizes Donald Trump description: Hillary Clinton gave a blistering rebuttal to Donald Trump's renewed call for a ban on Muslims coming to the United States. canonical: https://time.com/4368907/hillary-clinton-muslim-ban-donald-trump-orlando-shooting/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-14T18:50:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T22:36:23.738Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read Clinton's Speech Criticizing Trump's Muslim Ban og:description: "He's turning Americans against Americans, which is exactly what ISIS wants." og:url: https://time.com/4368907/hillary-clinton-muslim-ban-donald-trump-orlando-shooting/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7f53a5a6f8c21230/698897cd0b72e306146e9ce5/hillary-clinton9.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, smiles while speaking during a campaign event in Hartford, Connecticut, U.S., on Thursday, April 21, 2016. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read Clinton's Speech Criticizing Trump's Muslim Ban twitter:description: "He's turning Americans against Americans, which is exactly what ISIS wants." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7f53a5a6f8c21230/698897cd0b72e306146e9ce5/hillary-clinton9.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read Hillary Clinton's Speech Criticizing Donald Trump's Muslim Ban by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Jun 14, 2016 6:50 PM UTC  Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, smiles while speaking during a campaign event in Hartford, Connecticut, U.S., on Thursday, April 21, 2016. Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, smiles while speaking during a campaign event in Hartford, Connecticut, U.S., on Thursday, April 21, 2016.Bloomberg—Bloomberg via Getty Images by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Jun 14, 2016 6:50 PM UTC Hillary Clinton gave [a blistering rebuttal](http://time.com/4368686/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-muslim-ban/) to Donald Trump’s speech about the Orlando shooting and his [renewed call for a ban on Muslims](http://time.com/4367193/orlando-shooting-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-speeches/) coming to the United States. Speaking at a rally in Pittsburgh Tuesday, the presumptive Democratic nominee called her general election rival “temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified” to serve as president. 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