--- title: 'Trumpkins,' Hillary Clinton Pumpkins Take Over Halloween description: As Americans have begun carving pumpkins for the upcoming holiday, presidential candidate jack o'lanterns have swept the nation. canonical: https://time.com/4529976/trumpkins-hillary-clinton-pumpkins-halloween/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-13T16:01:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:44:37.553Z og:title: 'Trumpkins' and Hillary Clinton Pumpkins Arrive for Halloween og:description: Pumpkins get political og:url: https://time.com/4529976/trumpkins-hillary-clinton-pumpkins-halloween/ 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: 'Trumpkins' and Hillary Clinton Pumpkins Arrive for Halloween twitter:description: Pumpkins get political twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # 'Trumpkins' and Hillary Clinton Pumpkins Are Taking Over Halloween > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Oct 13, 2016 4:01 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Oct 13, 2016 4:01 PM UTC [Donald Trump](http://time.com/4529433/inside-donald-trump-total-meltdown/) and [Hillary Clinton](http://time.com/4528425/clinton-giuliani-september-11-photo/) will undoubtedly be two of this year’s most popular [costumes](http://time.com/4526501/kim-kardashian-halloween-costume-robbery/) come Oct. 31, but that’s not the only aspect of [Halloween](http://time.com/4508599/jimmy-kimmel-halloween-candy-prank-videos/) the 2016 election has crept into. As Americans have begun carving pumpkins for the upcoming holiday, presidential candidate jack o’lanterns have swept social media. “When my friends and I carve pumpkins, we try and make them fun and relevant,” Kelsey Kruzel, the carver of a Clinton pumpkin, [told the BBC](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37629338). “With all the madness surrounding the election, we wanted to add a little humor to the mix.” Trump pumpkins — dubbed “Trumpkins” — seem to be the more prominent trend, [_Dangerous Minds_ spotted](http://dangerousminds.net/comments/trumpkins%5Fmake%5Fhalloween%5Fhorrifying%5Fagain%5Fwith%5Fthese%5Fdonald%5Ftrump%5Fpumpkins). **Have a look at the carvings below:** > [](https://twitter.com/Lisaley/status/782588469780422657) **But there’s definitely a fair share of Clinton creations as well:** > [](https://twitter.com/ThePumpkinGeek/status/785307604108972032) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4529976/trumpkins-hillary-clinton-pumpkins-halloween/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4529976/trumpkins-hillary-clinton-pumpkins-halloween/"},"headline":"'Trumpkins' and Hillary Clinton Pumpkins Are Taking Over Halloween","datePublished":"2016-10-13T16:01:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:44:37.553Z","description":"Pumpkins get political","url":"https://time.com/4529976/trumpkins-hillary-clinton-pumpkins-halloween/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election","politics","Donald Trump","Culture","halloween"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","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":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4529976/trumpkins-hillary-clinton-pumpkins-halloween/","name":"'Trumpkins' and Hillary Clinton Pumpkins Are Taking Over Halloween"}}]}] ```