--- 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: 2026-04-13T07:47:15.830Z 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=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 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=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton Just Clapped Back at President Trump's Tweet With an Offer  by [Megan McCluskey](/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 14, 2017 7:48 PM CUT  Clinton: Hillary Clinton appeared on the TODAY show on Sept. 13, 2017; Trump: President Donald Trump meets with Democratic and Republican members of Congress in the Cabinet Room of the White House Sept. 13, 2017. Clinton: Hillary Clinton appeared on the TODAY show on Sept. 13, 2017; Trump: President Donald Trump meets with Democratic and Republican members of Congress in the Cabinet Room of the White House Sept. 13, 2017.Clinton: Nathan Congleton—NBCU/Getty Images; Trump: Win McNamee—Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 14, 2017 7:48 PM CUT After [President Donald Trump](http://time.com/4941110/donald-trump-crooked-hillary-clinton-lost-the-election-because-she-had-no-game/ "undefined") criticized [Hillary Clinton](http://time.com/4939575/hillary-clinton-on-cersei-lannister-game-of-thrones/ "undefined") 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/ "undefined")— 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) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4942266/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-book-tweet/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4942266/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-book-tweet/"},"headline":"Hillary Clinton Just Clapped Back at President Trump's Tweet With an Offer","datePublished":"2017-09-14T19:48:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:47:15.830Z","description":"\"Some good lessons in here about working together to solve problems\"","url":"https://time.com/4942266/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-book-tweet/","keywords":["Newsfeed","politics","twitter","Donald Trump","hillary clinton"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf1f7bf05f8329eae/6988dde0656a3fac37bd1b20/clinton-trump-book.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf1f7bf05f8329eae/6988dde0656a3fac37bd1b20/clinton-trump-book.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"clinton-trump-book","caption":"Clinton: Hillary Clinton appeared on the TODAY show on Sept. 13, 2017; Trump: President Donald Trump meets with Democratic and Republican members of Congress in the Cabinet Room of the White House Sept. 13, 2017.","creditText":"Clinton: Nathan Congleton—NBCU/Getty Images; Trump: Win McNamee—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/4942266/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-book-tweet/","name":"Hillary Clinton Just Clapped Back at President Trump's Tweet With an Offer"}}]}] ```