--- title: Watch a Flint Pastor Cut Off Donald Trump's Speech description: The pastor of a church in Flint, Michigan, interrupted Donald Trump when he attacked Hillary Clinton canonical: https://time.com/4494178/donald-trump-flint-pastor/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-14T22:37:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T00:36:11.440Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch the Moment a Flint Pastor Cut Off Donald Trump's Speech og:description: She said Trump wasn't invited to give a "political speech" og:url: https://time.com/4494178/donald-trump-flint-pastor/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt94e8dc742c2b54cb/6988a627524fc09de8df97c7/trump-flint1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Donald-Trump-Flint og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch the Moment a Flint Pastor Cut Off Donald Trump's Speech twitter:description: She said Trump wasn't invited to give a "political speech" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt94e8dc742c2b54cb/6988a627524fc09de8df97c7/trump-flint1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch the Moment a Flint Pastor Cut Off Donald Trump's Speech by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Sep 14, 2016 10:37 PM UTC  Rev. Faith Green Timmons interrupts Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as he spoke during a visit to Bethel United Methodist Church, Sept. 14, 2016, in Flint, Mich. Rev. Faith Green Timmons interrupts Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as he spoke during a visit to Bethel United Methodist Church, Sept. 14, 2016, in Flint, Mich.Evan Vucci—AP by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Sep 14, 2016 10:37 PM UTC The pastor of a church in [Flint](http://time.com/4448573/flint-water-lead-levels-improve-study/), Mich., interrupted Donald Trump when the Republican nominee attacked opponent Hillary Clinton. Trump was delivering a speech at Bethel United Methodist Church on Wednesday, speaking on the economy and [Flint’s water crisis](http://time.com/4441471/flint-water-lead-poisoning-costs/). “Hillary Clinton failed on the economy, just like she has failed on foreign policy,” Trump told the crowd. “Everything she touched didn’t work out, nothing.” He attempted to continue the attack, when the Rev. Faith Green Timmons approached the lectern to cut Trump off. “Mr. Trump, I invited you here to thank us for what we’ve done in Flint,” Timmons said. “Not to give a political speech.” Trump backed down, saying, “O.K. That’s good. And I’m going to go back onto Flint.” He returned to speaking about [Flint’s lead-contaminated water](http://time.com/4430614/six-michigan-state-employees-criminally-charged-for-flint-water-crisis/), which has affected about 100,000 people since 2014 after the city left Detroit’s water supply and began using improperly treated water from the Flint River. Trump wrapped up his speech a few moments later, with a promise that the “damage can be corrected.” Trump’s first trip to Flint since the water crisis included a [tour of the city’s water plant](http://time.com/4493908/donald-trump-flint-water-plant/) that had its supply contaminated by lead. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4494178/donald-trump-flint-pastor/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4494178/donald-trump-flint-pastor/"},"headline":"Watch the Moment a Flint Pastor Cut Off Donald Trump's Speech","datePublished":"2016-09-14T22:37:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T00:36:11.440Z","description":"She said Trump wasn't invited to give a \"political speech\"","url":"https://time.com/4494178/donald-trump-flint-pastor/","keywords":["Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt94e8dc742c2b54cb/6988a627524fc09de8df97c7/trump-flint1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt94e8dc742c2b54cb/6988a627524fc09de8df97c7/trump-flint1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Donald-Trump-Flint","caption":"Rev. 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