--- title: Hillary Clinton Says Donald Trump "Stalked" Her At Debate description: Hillary Clinton told Ellen DeGeneres that Donald Trump tried to "literally stalk" her around the debate stage. canonical: https://time.com/4531129/hillary-clinton-ellen-degeneres-donald-trump-debate/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-14T13:26:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T01:12:01.333Z article:section: Politics og:title: Hillary Clinton on 'Ellen': Donald Trump 'Literally Stalked Me' at Debate og:description: Some viewers felt Trump's pacing onstage led him to appear menacing or looming behind Clinton og:url: https://time.com/4531129/hillary-clinton-ellen-degeneres-donald-trump-debate/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt931682a3344ea463/6988a9578e0601553b467c9c/trump-clinton-debate1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TOPSHOT-US-VOTE-DEBATE og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton on 'Ellen': Donald Trump 'Literally Stalked Me' at Debate twitter:description: Some viewers felt Trump's pacing onstage led him to appear menacing or looming behind Clinton twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt931682a3344ea463/6988a9578e0601553b467c9c/trump-clinton-debate1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton on _Ellen_: Donald Trump 'Literally Stalked Me' at Debate  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Oct 14, 2016 1:26 PM UTC  Donald Trump listens to Hillary Clinton during the second presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, on Oct. 9, 2016. Donald Trump listens to Hillary Clinton during the second presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, on Oct. 9, 2016.Paul J. Richards—AFP/Getty Images  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Oct 14, 2016 1:26 PM UTC Some viewers of the second presidential debate felt that Donald Trump’s pacing onstage led him to appear menacing or looming behind Hillary Clinton while she spoke. And it seems Clinton herself agrees. Speaking to host Ellen DeGeneres on an _The Ellen DeGeneres Show_ episode airing Friday, Clinton said she thinks Trump was trying to “stalk” her around the stage because he was upset about the [recently leaked video](http://time.com/4523526/donald-trump-women-leaked-audio/?iid=sr-link3) in which he speaks very crudely about women. “Because of the revelation of the public video, and everything that came out on _Access Hollywood_, you know, he was really all wrought up, and you could just sense how much anger he had,” Clinton said, [ABC reports](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/clinton-tells-degeneres-trump-stalked-debate-upset-leaked/story?id=42795337). “And so, he was really trying to dominate and then literally stalk me around the stage.” “It was so odd, because I’d go to talk to somebody,” she continued, “and I would just feel this presence behind me, and you know, I thought, ‘Whoa this is really weird.'” Trump has denied that he meant to intimidate Clinton onstage. “They said he invaded her space,” he said at a Florida rally after the debate, [ABC reports](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-invade-space-hillary-clinton-knocks-intelligence/story?id=42762132). “Believe me. The last space that I want to invade is her space. 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