--- title: Alicia Machado And Hillary Clinton Fire Back At Donald Trump description: Alicia Machado and Hillary Clinton both blasted Donald Trump on social media for his treatment of the former Miss Universe winner. canonical: https://time.com/4514684/alicia-machado-donald-trump-hilary-clinton/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-30T15:54:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:48:17.548Z article:section: Politics og:title: Alicia Machado And Hillary Clinton Fire Back At Donald Trump og:description: Alicia Machado and Hillary Clinton both blasted Donald Trump on social media for his treatment of the former Miss Universe winner. og:url: https://time.com/4514684/alicia-machado-donald-trump-hilary-clinton/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf5cd9b9536cea2ca/6988a82d524fc0df52df9ace/machado-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: machado-trump og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Alicia Machado And Hillary Clinton Fire Back At Donald Trump twitter:description: Alicia Machado and Hillary Clinton both blasted Donald Trump on social media for his treatment of the former Miss Universe winner. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf5cd9b9536cea2ca/6988a82d524fc0df52df9ace/machado-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Alicia Machado and Hillary Clinton Fire Back at Donald Trump  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Sep 30, 2016 3:54 PM UTC  Getty Images (2)  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Sep 30, 2016 3:54 PM UTC > [](https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/781869125903773696) Former Miss Universe Alicia Machado called Donald Trump’s remarks about her “slander and lies,” while Hillary Clinton said they were “unhinged” and proof he would be “dangerous” as president. Early Friday morning, the Republican presidential nominee [fired off a series of tweets](http://time.com/4514358/donald-trump-alicia-machado-feud/) saying Machado was “disgusting” and a “con” and alleging that she had a “sex tape” and checkered past. Machado responded with [a photo on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/BK-7u7Oj3L0/) mid-morning of her wrapped in an American flag, accompanied by a long caption responding to Trump. She wrote, in Spanish: --- > “” --- Meantime, Clinton took to Twitter Friday to criticize Trump’s treatment of Machado, questioning his character and temperament. > [](https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/781869125903773696) > [](https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/781869512983515136) > [](https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/781870635324694528) > [](https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/781871605198774272) Clinton will speak more about Trump’s feud with Machado at a rally later Friday afternoon. **Read More:** [_Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Miss Universe and the Politics of Weight_](http://time.com/4512798/double-standards-available-in-his-and-hers/?xid=homepage) Alicia Machado And Hillary Clinton Fire Back At Donald Trump ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4514684/alicia-machado-donald-trump-hilary-clinton/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4514684/alicia-machado-donald-trump-hilary-clinton/"},"headline":"Alicia Machado and Hillary Clinton Fire Back at Donald Trump","datePublished":"2016-09-30T15:54:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:48:17.548Z","description":"\"This is...unhinged, even for Trump\"","url":"https://time.com/4514684/alicia-machado-donald-trump-hilary-clinton/","keywords":["Donald Trump","2016 Election"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf5cd9b9536cea2ca/6988a82d524fc0df52df9ace/machado-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf5cd9b9536cea2ca/6988a82d524fc0df52df9ace/machado-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"machado-trump","caption":"Donald Trump and Alicia Machado","creditText":"Getty Images (2)","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/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4514684/alicia-machado-donald-trump-hilary-clinton/","name":"Alicia Machado and Hillary Clinton Fire Back at Donald Trump"}}]}] ```