--- title: Hillary Clinton Tells Trump to Read Her Children's Book description: After Trump criticized Hillary Clinton for her election loss on Twitter, Clinton responded by offering to send him her children's book canonical: https://time.com/4942266/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-book-tweet/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-14T19:48:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-08T09:51:34.018Z og:title: Hillary Clinton Clapped Back at Trump for Criticizing Her og:description: She offered him a free gift - with a point og:url: https://time.com/4942266/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-book-tweet/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf1f7bf05f8329eae/6988dde0656a3fac37bd1b20/clinton-trump-book.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: clinton-trump-book og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton Clapped Back at Trump for Criticizing Her twitter:description: She offered him a free gift - with a point twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf1f7bf05f8329eae/6988dde0656a3fac37bd1b20/clinton-trump-book.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton Just Clapped Back at President Trump's Tweet With an Offer > Sponsored content. 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It explains the politics, personalities and power dynamics behind the headlines, twice a week. #### Where can I get analysis of Washington politics by email? D.C. Brief is TIME's free Washington politics newsletter, available at time.com/newsletters. It is written by a TIME senior correspondent who covers the capital full time. #### Who writes TIME's D.C. Brief? Philip Elliott, a senior correspondent at TIME, writes D.C. Brief. #### Is D.C. Brief free? Yes. D.C. Brief is free at time.com/newsletters. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-dcbrief-2026q3/newsletters?i=14af33c7-8c3d-49d8-9b03-d67c3b1e859c&cr=time-nl-dcbrief-2026q3-v1) ## Video: FIRSTS Hillary Rodham Clinton [Watch (HLS stream): FIRSTS Hillary Rodham Clinton](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/nRyrhM31.m3u8) (1:35)  _Published 2017-09-06. Hillary Rodham Clinton is the FIRST woman to win a major party’s nomination for President of the United States._  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 14, 2017 7:48 PM UTC Hillary Rodham Clinton is the FIRST woman to win a major party’s nomination for President of the United States.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 14, 2017 7:48 PM UTC After [President Donald Trump](http://time.com/4941110/donald-trump-crooked-hillary-clinton-lost-the-election-because-she-had-no-game/) criticized [Hillary Clinton](http://time.com/4939575/hillary-clinton-on-cersei-lannister-game-of-thrones/) for her election loss on Twitter Wednesday, Clinton responded by offering to send him a copy of her children’s book, _It Takes a Village_. Trump’s tweet was issued seemingly in response to the release of Clinton’s new memoir [_What Happened_](http://time.com/4937416/hillary-clinton-what-happened-books/)— in which she gives her account of what led to her defeat at the polls last November. “Crooked Hillary Clinton blames everybody (and every thing) but herself for her election loss,” he wrote. “She lost the debates and lost her direction!” Clinton fired back by suggesting that Trump read _It Takes a Village_ to learn how to cooperate with others. “If you didn’t like that book, try this one — some good lessons in here about working together to solve problems,” she tweeted Thursday with a picture of the book. “Happy to send a copy.” > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/908160218995068928) > [](https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/908357018964172800) ## Transcript [00:00] [ MUSIC ] [00:04] I don't think women need to do anything other than [00:06] what they're doing right now and that's moving [00:09] forward. [ MUSIC ] We're coming. [00:14] [ MUSIC ] It's essential that in life you see yourself [00:18] Reflected in other people's stories. I was always [00:22] looking for anybody that kinda looked like me. [00:25] [ MUSIC ] [00:28] The first time I walked out to pitch, different guys were [00:32] all just like telling jokes to their teammates and the [00:34] parents were laughing. When they saw me face the first [00:37] batter, didn't really hear anything from that side of the [00:40] field. [ MUSIC ] [00:43] I've dealt with a lot of people who second guess me, [00:45] who undermined me because of my age. People would [00:49] associate what my hard work meant. They would [00:50] diminish it. A lot of what pioneers do, they do [00:54] not benefit from it. [ MUSIC ] There's plenty of room in [00:58] the world for mediocre men. There is no room for [01:00] mediocre women. [ MUSIC ] [01:05] The glass ceiling, that vocabulary is violent. I wouldn't [01:10] have gone to that class yelling and screaming, I'm [01:12] gonna make you break! She literally put me in a [01:14] catapult and threw me at it. [ MUSIC ] Here [01:19] we are Early in the 21st century. [ MUSIC ] The [01:24] time has just come to finally break through. People are [01:28] on their feet. [ APPLAUSE ] The glass ceiling is [01:32] nothing compared to the determination of women. [01:37] Danica Patrick [ MUSIC ] [01:42] Not one thing ever does it. [ UNKNOWN ] [01:46] It's a series of consistent things The people [01:53] say, ha, it's time for change. 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