--- title: Donald Trump Said Hillary Clinton May Not Be 'Loyal to Bill' description: The Republican nominee veered from his script for 20 minutes on Saturday, saying Hillary Clinton may not be loyal to her husband Bill canonical: https://time.com/4515923/donald-trump-hillary-bill-clinton-loyal-pneumonia/ author: Julia Zorthian article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-02T14:52:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T00:57:33.293Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump: Hillary Clinton May Not Be 'Loyal to Bill' og:description: The Republican nominee veered from his script for 20 minutes or so og:url: https://time.com/4515923/donald-trump-hillary-bill-clinton-loyal-pneumonia/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdd2cdea127f4855d/6988a857f887dc34dfe97a23/donald-trump-tax.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Manheim og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump: Hillary Clinton May Not Be 'Loyal to Bill' twitter:description: The Republican nominee veered from his script for 20 minutes or so twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdd2cdea127f4855d/6988a857f887dc34dfe97a23/donald-trump-tax.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump: Hillary Clinton May Not Be 'Loyal to Bill'  by [Julia Zorthian](https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Oct 2, 2016 2:52 PM UTC  Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Manheim, Pa., on Oct. 1, 2016. Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Manheim, Pa., on Oct. 1, 2016.Mike Segar—Reuters  by [Julia Zorthian](https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Oct 2, 2016 2:52 PM UTC Donald Trump’s nine-sentence statement about Hillary Clinton at a Saturday Pennsylvania rally ended up taking 25 minutes when the GOP presidential nominee [careened from topic to topic](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/10/02/as-news-of-trumps-taxes-broke-he-goes-off-script-at-a-rally-in-pennsylvania/). His speech included doubts about Clinton’s marital fidelity, an impression of her being sick from pneumonia and opinions about the state of movies in America. “Hillary Clinton’s only loyalty is to her financial contributors and to herself…I don’t even think she’s loyal to Bill, if you want to know the truth,” Trump said. “And really, folks, really, why should she be? Right? Why should she be?” Trump did not offer any context, evidence or reasoning for accusing Clinton of disloyalty in her personal life. He also did an impromptu impression of the candidate suffering from pneumonia at the 9/11 memorial ceremony, pointing to her difficulty walking at the time as a reason for why she cannot make good deals or handle Russian President Vladimir Putin. “She can’t make it fifteen feet to her car,” Trump said. “Give me a break, give me a break.” As he accused news outlets like the Washington _Post_ and New York _Times_ of protecting Clinton, the [_Times_ reported on a partial tax return](http://time.com/4515840/donald-trump-tax-records-loss/) for Trump from 1995 that indicated he may not have paid federal income taxes for more than 10 years. Trump also offered an opinion on the state of cinema: “Right now, you say to your wife: ‘Let’s go to a movie after Trump.’ But you won’t do that because you’ll be so high and so excited that no movie is going to satisfy you. Okay? No movie. You know why? Honestly? Because they don’t make movies like they used to — is that right?” \[[_Washington Post_](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/10/02/as-news-of-trumps-taxes-broke-he-goes-off-script-at-a-rally-in-pennsylvania/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4515923/donald-trump-hillary-bill-clinton-loyal-pneumonia/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4515923/donald-trump-hillary-bill-clinton-loyal-pneumonia/"},"headline":"Donald Trump: Hillary Clinton May Not Be 'Loyal to Bill'","datePublished":"2016-10-02T14:52:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T00:57:33.293Z","description":"The Republican nominee veered from his script for 20 minutes or so","url":"https://time.com/4515923/donald-trump-hillary-bill-clinton-loyal-pneumonia/","keywords":["2016 Election","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election topic","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdd2cdea127f4855d/6988a857f887dc34dfe97a23/donald-trump-tax.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Julia Zorthian","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdd2cdea127f4855d/6988a857f887dc34dfe97a23/donald-trump-tax.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Manheim","caption":"Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Manheim, Pennsylvania, U.S., October 1, 2016. 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