--- title: DNC: Watch Tim Kaine Do His Best Donald Trump Impression description: Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine revealed his impression of Donald Trump before a nationally televised audience on Wednesday. canonical: https://time.com/4427766/dnc-tim-kaine-donald-trump-impression/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-28T03:06:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-06T09:44:20.550Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch Tim Kaine Do His Best Donald Trump Impression og:description: "Believe me." og:url: https://time.com/4427766/dnc-tim-kaine-donald-trump-impression/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8483c6737f03f09c/69889ff0f887dc1822e96d92/tim-kaine-hillary-clinton-democratic-national-convention-dnc-25.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3277 og:image:height: 1843 og:image:alt: Democratic National Convention: Day Three og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Tim Kaine Do His Best Donald Trump Impression twitter:description: "Believe me." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8483c6737f03f09c/69889ff0f887dc1822e96d92/tim-kaine-hillary-clinton-democratic-national-convention-dnc-25.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Tim Kaine Do His Best Donald Trump Impression > Sponsored content. 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Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine revealed his impression of Donald Trump before a nationally televised audience on Wednesday._ by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Jul 28, 2016 3:06 AM UTC by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Jul 28, 2016 3:06 AM UTC Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine revealed his impression of Donald Trump before a nationally televised audience on Wednesday. [Speaking at the Democratic national convention](http://time.com/4426037/dnc-tim-kaine-speech-transcript-video/) in Philadelphia, the Virginia Senator argued that Trump has no solid plans for how he would run the country. “He never tells you how he’s going to do any of the things he says he’s going to do. He just says, ‘believe me.’” he said. “So here’s the question. Do you really believe him? Donald Trump’s whole career says you better not.” Kaine riffed on Trump’s speaking style for a good chunk of the speech. Watch his impression in the video above. **Read More:** [_Watch Republican Delegates Imitate Donald Trump_](http://time.com/4418444/republican-convention-donald-trump-impressions/) ## Transcript Belive me [ NOISE ] [ LAUGH ] It's gonna be great belive me [ NOISE ] [ LAUGH ] we're gonna build the wall and make Mexico pay for it belive me [ NOISE ] [ LAUGH ] we're gonna destroy ISIS so fast belive me [ NOISE ] [ LAUGH ] there's nothing suspicious in my tax return believe me [ APPLAUSE ] [ LAUGH ]. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4427766/dnc-tim-kaine-donald-trump-impression/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4427766/dnc-tim-kaine-donald-trump-impression/"},"headline":"Watch Tim Kaine Do His Best Donald Trump Impression","datePublished":"2016-07-28T03:06:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-10-06T09:44:20.550Z","description":"'Believe me'","url":"https://time.com/4427766/dnc-tim-kaine-donald-trump-impression/","keywords":["Democratic National Convention","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election","Donald Trump","Tim Kaine"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8483c6737f03f09c/69889ff0f887dc1822e96d92/tim-kaine-hillary-clinton-democratic-national-convention-dnc-25.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ryan Teague Beckwith","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8483c6737f03f09c/69889ff0f887dc1822e96d92/tim-kaine-hillary-clinton-democratic-national-convention-dnc-25.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Democratic National Convention: Day Three","caption":"Vice Presidential nominee Tim Kaine acknowledges the crowd on the third day of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center, July 27, 2016 in Philadelphia.","creditText":"Alex Wong—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":"/tag/democratic-national-convention/","name":"Democratic National Convention"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4427766/dnc-tim-kaine-donald-trump-impression/","name":"Watch Tim Kaine Do His Best Donald Trump Impression"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Watch Tim Kaine Do His Best Donald Trump Impression","description":"Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine revealed his impression of Donald Trump before a nationally televised audience on Wednesday.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/FD76WNOx/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2016-07-28T02:48:23.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/FD76WNOx.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4427766/dnc-tim-kaine-donald-trump-impression/","duration":"PT22S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4427766/dnc-tim-kaine-donald-trump-impression/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```