--- title: Donald Trump Walks Off Interview After Question About Racism description: Donald Trump cut an interview short with a journalist after the correspondent asked him to address criticism that he’s racist and sexist canonical: https://time.com/4539864/donald-trump-walks-interview-racism/ author: Melissa Chan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-20T23:21:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:44:48.282Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Walked Off of an Interview After a Question About Racism og:description: But not before saying "I am the least racist person you’ve ever met" og:url: https://time.com/4539864/donald-trump-walks-interview-racism/ 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: Donald Trump Walked Off of an Interview After a Question About Racism twitter:description: But not before saying "I am the least racist person you’ve ever met" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Donald Trump Walked Off of an Interview After a Question About Racism > Sponsored content. 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Brief is free at time.com/newsletters.  by [Melissa Chan](https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Oct 20, 2016 11:21 PM UTC  by [Melissa Chan](https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Oct 20, 2016 11:21 PM UTC Donald Trump on Thursday [cut an interview short](http://nbc4i.com/2016/10/20/watch-colleen-marshalls-1-on-1-interview-with-donald-trump/) with an Ohio journalist after the correspondent asked him to address criticism that he’s racist and sexist. The [Republican nominee](http://time.com/4538855/donald-trump-election-results-recount/?xid=homepage) quietly thanked NBC 4’s Colleen Marshall and began to walk away while she was halfway through asking him how he feels about being “labeled a racist” and “called a sexist” so close to Election Day. When she proceeded to probe him for his response, he said: “I am the least racist person you’ve ever met.” > [](https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/789220161161232384) Trump had been discussing an array of topics with Marshall, including his claims that the election is rigged and Republican leaders who have withdrawn their support from him, for about three minutes before she brought up the apparently sensitive issue. \[[_NBC 4_](http://nbc4i.com/2016/10/20/watch-colleen-marshalls-1-on-1-interview-with-donald-trump/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4539864/donald-trump-walks-interview-racism/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4539864/donald-trump-walks-interview-racism/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Walked Off of an Interview After a Question About Racism","datePublished":"2016-10-20T23:21:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:44:48.282Z","description":"But not before saying \"I am the least racist person you’ve ever met\"","url":"https://time.com/4539864/donald-trump-walks-interview-racism/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Chan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/"}],"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":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4539864/donald-trump-walks-interview-racism/","name":"Donald Trump Walked Off of an Interview After a Question About Racism"}}]}] ```