--- title: Hillary Clinton Ad Hits Donald Trump's Offensive Comments About Women description: A new television ad for Hillary Clinton asks a startling question about Donald Trump: "Is this the president we want for our daughters?" canonical: https://time.com/4505565/hillary-clinton-ad-mirrors-donald-trump-women/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-23T11:49:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:45:36.230Z article:section: Politics og:title: Hillary Clinton Ad Hits Donald Trump's Offensive Comments About Women og:description: A new television ad for Hillary Clinton asks a startling question about Donald Trump: "Is this the president we want for our daughters?" og:url: https://time.com/4505565/hillary-clinton-ad-mirrors-donald-trump-women/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton Ad Hits Donald Trump's Offensive Comments About Women twitter:description: A new television ad for Hillary Clinton asks a startling question about Donald Trump: "Is this the president we want for our daughters?" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Hillary Clinton Ad Focuses on Trump's Remarks About Women > Sponsored content. 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Brief is free at time.com/newsletters.  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Sep 23, 2016 11:49 AM UTC  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Sep 23, 2016 11:49 AM UTC A new television ad for Hillary Clinton asks a startling question about Donald Trump: “Is this the president we want for our daughters?” The spot shows images of different young women looking at themselves in the mirror overlaid with real soundbites of Trump saying things like, “I’d look her right in that fat ugly face of hers,” and, “A person who is flat chested is very hard to be a 10.” “Does she have a good body, no? Does she have a fat (expletive)? Absolutely,” he says as the girls onscreen self-consciously appraise their own looks. The ad will start airing Friday in Ohio, New Hampshire, Iowa, Florida, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and on national cable, [CNN reports](http://us.cnn.com/2016/09/23/politics/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-women-ad/index.html). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4505565/hillary-clinton-ad-mirrors-donald-trump-women/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4505565/hillary-clinton-ad-mirrors-donald-trump-women/"},"headline":"Hillary Clinton Ad Focuses on Trump's Remarks About Women","datePublished":"2016-09-23T11:49:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:45:36.230Z","description":"\"Is this the president we want for our daughters?\"","url":"https://time.com/4505565/hillary-clinton-ad-mirrors-donald-trump-women/","keywords":["Hillary Clinton","2016 Election","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"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":"https://time.com/4505565/hillary-clinton-ad-mirrors-donald-trump-women/","name":"Hillary Clinton Ad Focuses on Trump's Remarks About Women"}}]}] ```