--- title: Donald Trump Criticizes Hillary Clinton on Foreign Policy description: Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump criticized Democratic rival Hillary Clinton on foreign policy in a speech in New York Wednesday. canonical: https://time.com/4378270/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-foreign-policy-speech-transcript/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-22T15:14:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2024-01-24T12:42:34.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read Trump's Speech Criticizing Clinton on Foreign Policy og:description: Here's a full transcript, as prepared. og:url: https://time.com/4378270/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-foreign-policy-speech-transcript/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta9d74be8fad4a741/698898f3a988ca56f86b855a/donald-trump17.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2267 og:image:height: 1275 og:image:alt: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump delivers a speech during a campaign event at the Trump Soho Hotel in Manhattan, New York City og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read Trump's Speech Criticizing Clinton on Foreign Policy twitter:description: Here's a full transcript, as prepared. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta9d74be8fad4a741/698898f3a988ca56f86b855a/donald-trump17.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 video:duration: 01:24 video:published: 2016-06-22 section: politics topics: presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton, corruption allegations, State Department, foreign policy, ISIS, special interest money, campaign slogans genre: political speech, campaign attack tones: accusatory, combative, confident, dismissive emotions: anger (high), contempt (high), defiance (medium) sentiment: negative audience: voters, political news followers, US election observers people: Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton organizations: State Department, ISIS content_suitability: politics [00:00-01:24]; death [00:43-01:10]; war [00:43-01:10]; crime [00:04-00:26] transcript_source: publisher captions transcript_reviewed: not applicable ---  # Read Donald Trump's Speech Criticizing Hillary Clinton on Foreign Policy > Sponsored content. 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Donald Trump moderated his tone even as he doubled down on the substance of his attacks on Hillary Clinton, accusing the former Secretary of State of outright corruption_ Description, summary, key points, chapters, key quotes, questions and transcript, where present, were produced automatically from the video or its captions and were not reviewed. ## Summary Donald Trump delivers a speech attacking Hillary Clinton, calling her a liar and accusing her of corruption and personal profit from her time as Secretary of State. He claims her foreign policy caused large loss of life and money and enabled ISIS. He closes by responding to her campaign slogan with his own. ## Key points - Trump calls Hillary Clinton a world class liar. (00:00) - Trump says Clinton has spent her life making money for special interests and taking money for herself. (00:04) - Trump accuses Clinton of perfecting the politics of personal profit and even theft. (00:18) - Trump claims Clinton ran the State Department like her own personal hedge fund, doing favors for oppressive regimes in exchange for cash. (00:26) - Trump says Clinton's foreign policy has cost America thousands of lives and trillions of dollars and unleashed ISIS across the world. (00:43) - Trump asserts that no secretary of state has been more wrong, more often and in more places than Clinton. (00:50) - Trump says Clinton's decisions spread death, destruction and terrorism everywhere she touched. (01:06) - Trump says Clinton believes she is entitled to the office and responds to her slogan 'I'm with her' with 'I'm with you, the American People.' (01:10) ## Chapters - [00:00 to 00:18] Accusations of lying and special interest money. Trump calls Clinton a liar and accuses her of making money for special interests and herself. - [00:18 to 00:43] Claims of personal profit at State Department. Trump alleges Clinton used the State Department for personal profit and favors to regimes in exchange for cash. - [00:43 to 01:10] Criticism of foreign policy and costs. Trump argues Clinton's foreign policy caused thousands of deaths, trillions in costs and the rise of ISIS. - [01:10 to 01:24] Response to Clinton's campaign slogan. Trump says Clinton feels entitled to the office and counters her slogan with his own. ## Key quotes - [00:00] Donald Trump: "Hillary Clinton has perfected the politics of personal profit and even theft." - [00:26] Donald Trump: "She ran the state department like her own personal hedge fund" - [00:43] Donald Trump: "The Hillary Clinton foreign policy has cost America thousands of lives and trillions and trillions of dollars and unleashed ISIS across the world." - [01:06] Donald Trump: "Her decisions spread death, destruction and terrorism everywhere she touch." - [01:17] Donald Trump: "I'm with you, the American People." ## Questions this video answers - What does Trump accuse Hillary Clinton of doing with her time as Secretary of State? [00:18] - How does Trump characterize the financial dealings of Hillary Clinton? [00:04] - What consequences does Trump attribute to Clinton's foreign policy? [00:43] - Why does Trump say Clinton is not suited for the office she seeks? [01:10] - How does Trump respond to Clinton's campaign slogan? [01:17] ## Content suitability - politics [00:00-01:24]: Entire video is a partisan political attack on a candidate. - death [00:43-01:10]: References to thousands of lives lost and death caused by foreign policy. - war [00:43-01:10]: Foreign policy claims referencing terrorism and ISIS. - crime [00:04-00:26]: Accusations of theft, corruption and receiving cash in exchange for favors. by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Updated: Jan 24, 2024 12:42 PM UTCPublished: Jun 22, 2016 3:14 PM UTC Donald Trump moderated his tone even as he doubled down on the substance of his attacks on Hillary Clinton, accusing the former Secretary of State of outright corruption by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Updated: Jan 24, 2024 12:42 PM UTCPublished: Jun 22, 2016 3:14 PM UTC Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump criticized Democratic rival Hillary Clinton on foreign policy in a speech in New York Wednesday. Here is a transcript of the speech as delivered. --- > “” --- ## Transcript [00:00] Hilary Clinton and as you know she most [00:04] people know she is a world class liar. [ APPLAUSE ] The [00:08] other candidate in this race has spent her entire life [00:11] making money for special interests and I'll tell you she [00:15] has made plenty of money for them and she has been [00:18] taking plenty of money out for herself. Hillary Clinton [00:22] has perfected the politics of personal profit and even [00:26] theft. She ran the state department like her own [00:29] personal hedge fund, doing favors for oppressive [00:32] regimes and many others, and really, many, many [00:36] others. In exchange for cash, pure and simple, [00:40] folks, pure and simple. The Hillary Clinton foreign [00:43] policy has cost America thousands of lives and trillions [00:46] and trillions of dollars and unleashed ISIS across [00:50] the world. No secretary of state has been more [00:55] wrong More often and in more places than Hillary [00:59] Clinton. [ APPLAUSE ] [01:06] Her decisions spread death, destruction and terrorism [01:10] everywhere she touch. [ APPLAUSE ] She believes she's [01:13] entitled to the office Her campaign slogan is, I'm [01:17] with her. You know what my response is to that? 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