--- title: Donald Trump Asked to Replace 'Heebie Jabbies' at TSA description: A woman asked presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump to replace “heebie jabbies” in the TSA with veterans on Thursday canonical: https://time.com/4390726/donald-trump-tsa-heebie-jabbies/ author: Julissa Higgins article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-30T23:16:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:50:11.763Z article:section: Politics og:title: Woman Asks Donald Trump to Replace 'Heebie Jabbies' at TSA With Veterans og:description: "Get rid of all these heebie jabbies they wear at TSA" og:url: https://time.com/4390726/donald-trump-tsa-heebie-jabbies/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt77c24256dc0f3fc7/69889a4dbc6cfc52f73dda48/trump_new_hampshire.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3500 og:image:height: 1969 og:image:alt: U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign town hall meeting outside a closed Osram Sylvania manufacturing facility in Manchester og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Woman Asks Donald Trump to Replace 'Heebie Jabbies' at TSA With Veterans twitter:description: "Get rid of all these heebie jabbies they wear at TSA" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt77c24256dc0f3fc7/69889a4dbc6cfc52f73dda48/trump_new_hampshire.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Woman Asks Donald Trump to Replace 'Heebie Jabbies' at TSA With Veterans > Sponsored content. 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U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign town hall meeting outside a closed Osram Sylvania manufacturing facility in Manchester, New Hampshire June 30, 2016. Brian Snyder—Reuters by [Julissa Higgins](https://time.com/author/julissa-higgins/) ## Julissa Higgins Jun 30, 2016 11:16 PM UTC A woman asked presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump to “get rid of” the “heebie jabbies” at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and replace them with veterans, leading to an awkward exchange during a New Hampshire event on Thursday. “Why aren’t we putting our military retirees on that border or in TSA?” she said. “Get rid of all these heebie jabbies they wear at TSA. I’ve seen them myself, ” the woman added, apparently referencing the hijab, the veil most commonly worn by Muslim women. “We are looking at that. We are looking at that,” Trump responded. “We’re looking at a lot of things.” Trump came under fire after his [December call](http://time.com/4139670/donald-trump-muslim-republican/) to to enact a “complete [shutdown of Muslims entering the United States](http://time.com/4366912/donald-trump-orlando-shooting-muslim-ban/),” though his campaign [has recently been vague about the details of such a ban](http://time.com/4384038/donald-trump-immigration-position-shifting-policies/). When asked asked about whether Burkas should be banned in “schools, courts, and bordered checkpoints” in the United States during a February interview [with Boston Herald Radio](http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/adriana%5Fcohen/2016/02/adriana%5Fcohen%5Fsafety%5Fbased%5Fban%5Fon%5Fburqas%5Fhas%5Ftrump%5Fs%5Fok), Trump said “I’m okay with it. I know you’re shocked to hear me say it right? 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