--- title: Donald Trump Comments on Hillary Clinton After Pneumonia description: Donald Trump questioned the health of rival Hillary Clinton Wednesday after days of largely keeping quiet on the subject canonical: https://time.com/4494889/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-health/ author: Justin Worland article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-15T13:00:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T00:37:12.894Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Comments on Hillary Clinton After Pneumonia og:description: Donald Trump questioned the health of rival Hillary Clinton Wednesday after days of largely keeping quiet on the subject og:url: https://time.com/4494889/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-health/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt574f4dc7dd3eb39f/6988a6328e0601c636467792/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-health.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3900 og:image:height: 2194 og:image:alt: donald trump hillary clinton health og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Comments on Hillary Clinton After Pneumonia twitter:description: Donald Trump questioned the health of rival Hillary Clinton Wednesday after days of largely keeping quiet on the subject twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt574f4dc7dd3eb39f/6988a6328e0601c636467792/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-health.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Trump Comments on Clinton Health After Days of Silence > Sponsored content. 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Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Canton Memorial Civic Center on September 14, 2016 in Canton, Ohio. Jeff Swensen—Getty Images  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Sep 15, 2016 1:00 PM UTC Donald Trump questioned the health of rival Hillary Clinton Wednesday after days of largely keeping quiet on the subject in the wake of the Democratic nominee’s disclosure that she had pneumonia. Trump remarked to a crowd in Ohio that performing in hot and crowded rooms requires stamina, according to a Politico [report](http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/trump-clinton-health-228186). “I don’t know folks, do you think Hillary could stand up here for an hour?” he asked the crowd. Trump’s advisers had urged the candidate to say silent on the matter, according to Politico. Clinton [disclosed Sunday](http://time.com/4487345/hillary-clinton-pneumonia/) that she had [contracted pneumonia](http://time.com/4486928/hillary-clinton-health-pnemonia-deplorables/?xid=homepage) after [video](http://fortune.com/2016/09/11/hillary-clinton-9-11-memorial/) showing her stumbling as she entered a vehicle spread widely. Later, in the rally he said he hoped Clinton would have a quick recovery. “She’s lying in bed getting better and we want her better,” he said, according to Politico. “We want her back on the trail.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4494889/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-health/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4494889/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-health/"},"headline":"Trump Comments on Clinton Health After Days of Silence","datePublished":"2016-09-15T13:00:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T00:37:12.894Z","description":"\"Do you think Hillary could stand up here for an hour?\"","url":"https://time.com/4494889/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-health/","keywords":["2016 presidential election"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt574f4dc7dd3eb39f/6988a6328e0601c636467792/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-health.jpeg?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/blt574f4dc7dd3eb39f/6988a6328e0601c636467792/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-health.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"donald trump hillary clinton health","caption":"donald trump hillary clinton health","creditText":"Jeff Swensen—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-presidential-election/","name":"2016 presidential election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4494889/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-health/","name":"Trump Comments on Clinton Health After Days of Silence"}}]}] ```