--- title: Hillary Clinton Slams Donald Trump Briefing Remarks description: Hillary Clinton slammed Donald Trump's comments on a classified briefing he received as "totally inappropriate and undisciplined." canonical: https://time.com/4483924/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-security-briefing/ author: Justin Worland article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-08T15:27:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T00:28:27.276Z article:section: Politics og:title: Clinton Criticizes Trump for Talking About Security Briefing og:description: "Totally inappropriate and undisciplined." og:url: https://time.com/4483924/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-security-briefing/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltddd3a61c34c06386/6988a5450a4a22ff489cb304/gettyimages-600356636-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Democratic presidential nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks to reporters on the tarmac at Westchester County Airport on September 8, 2016 in White Plains, New York. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Clinton Criticizes Trump for Talking About Security Briefing twitter:description: "Totally inappropriate and undisciplined." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltddd3a61c34c06386/6988a5450a4a22ff489cb304/gettyimages-600356636-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton Criticizes Donald Trump for Talking About Classified Security Briefing  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Sep 8, 2016 3:27 PM UTC  Democratic presidential nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks to reporters on the tarmac at Westchester County Airport on September 8, 2016 in White Plains, New York. Democratic presidential nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks to reporters on the tarmac at Westchester County Airport on September 8, 2016 in White Plains, New York.Justin Sullivan—Getty Images  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Sep 8, 2016 3:27 PM UTC Hillary Clinton slammed Donald Trump’s [comments](http://time.com/4483368/nbc-military-forum-donald-trump-hillary-clinton/?xid=homepage) on a classified briefing he received as “totally inappropriate and undisciplined” in remarks Thursday. Trump said during a Wednesday [town hall on national security](http://time.com/4483355/commander-chief-forum-clinton-trump-intrepid/) that he could tell from “the body language” of the experts who briefed him that “they were not happy” with President Obama’s decisions. “Our leadership, Barack Obama, did not follow,” he said. “They call it intelligence, it’s there for a reason—what our experts said to do.” **Read More:** [_Transcript of Hillary Clinton Press Conference_](http://time.com/4484204/hillary-clinton-white-plains-press-conference-transcript/) Clinton suggested Thursday during a [press conference](http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/clinton-criticize-trump-intel-briefing-readout-227876) that Trump should not have commented on classified [security briefings](http://time.com/4429507/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-james-clapper-intelligence-briefings/) and declined to comment on her own briefing. The moment contributes to an ongoing argument from the Clinton campaign that Trump lacks the temperament and discipline to serve as president. [Both](http://time.com/4469368/hillary-clinton-intelligence-briefing-nominee/?xid=homepage) candidates have received classified [national security briefings](http://time.com/4430630/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-presidential-candidate-intelligence-briefings/) despite the misgivings of their opponents. The Trump campaign [responded](https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/773889180019613696) with a long list of arguments against Clinton including references to Benghazi and the ongoing email scandal. Trump spokesperson Jason Million called Clinton’s criticism “unhinged.” “These are the desperate attacks of a falling campaign sinking in the polls and characteristics of someone woefully unfit for the presidency of the United States,” he said. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4483924/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-security-briefing/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4483924/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-security-briefing/"},"headline":"Hillary Clinton Criticizes Donald Trump for Talking About Classified Security Briefing","datePublished":"2016-09-08T15:27:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T00:28:27.276Z","description":"Hillary Clinton slammed Donald Trump's comments on a classified briefing he received as \"totally inappropriate and undisciplined.\"","url":"https://time.com/4483924/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-security-briefing/","keywords":["2016 Election","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election topic","Foreign Policy","National Security","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltddd3a61c34c06386/6988a5450a4a22ff489cb304/gettyimages-600356636-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Justin Worland","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/justin-worland/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltddd3a61c34c06386/6988a5450a4a22ff489cb304/gettyimages-600356636-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Democratic presidential nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks to reporters on the tarmac at Westchester County Airport on September 8, 2016 in White Plains, New York.","caption":"Democratic presidential nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks to reporters on the tarmac at Westchester County Airport on September 8, 2016 in White Plains, New York.","creditText":"Justin Sullivan—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/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4483924/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-security-briefing/","name":"Hillary Clinton Criticizes Donald Trump for Talking About Classified Security Briefing"}}]}] ```