--- title: Donald Trump: Bernie Sanders Weak for Letting Activists Disrupt Speech description: Donald Trump said Bernie Sanders "showed such weakness" when he let two Black Lives Matter activists disrupted his speech over the weekend. canonical: https://time.com/3993540/donald-trump-bernie-sanders-black-lives-matter/ author: Jack Linshi article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-12T00:35:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T10:05:50.577Z article:section: Politics og:title: Trump: Sanders Is Weak for Letting Activists Disrupt Speech og:description: "That's not going to happen to Trump" og:url: https://time.com/3993540/donald-trump-bernie-sanders-black-lives-matter/ 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: Trump: Sanders Is Weak for Letting Activists Disrupt Speech twitter:description: "That's not going to happen to Trump" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Donald Trump: Bernie Sanders 'Showed Such Weakness' Letting Activists Disrupt Speech  by [Jack Linshi](/author/jack-linshi/)  ## Jack Linshi Aug 12, 2015 12:35 AM CUT  by [Jack Linshi](/author/jack-linshi/)  ## Jack Linshi Aug 12, 2015 12:35 AM CUT Republican presidential [frontrunner](http://time.com/3991306/donald-trump-poll-reuters-ipsos/ "undefined") Donald Trump said Tuesday that his Democratic rival Bernie Sanders “showed such weakness” when he allowed [two Black Lives Matter activists](http://time.com/3989917/black-lives-matter-protest-bernie-sanders-seattle/ "undefined") to seize his microphone and disrupt his speech over the weekend. “I thought that was disgusting. That showed such weakness, the way he was taken away by two young women,” Trump said during a press conference in Michigan. “That will never happen with me. I don’t know if I’ll do the fighting myself, or if other people will, but that was a disgrace.” > [](https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/631250758504026113) The real estate mogul’s criticism follows the disruption of the first of Sanders’ two rallies in Seattle on Saturday, when the two activists shoved aside the Vermont Senator and took the microphone to call for criminal justice reform. After about 20 minutes, Sanders left the stage without giving his speech, saluting the crowd with the clenched-fist symbol of the Black Lives Matter movement. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3993540/donald-trump-bernie-sanders-black-lives-matter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3993540/donald-trump-bernie-sanders-black-lives-matter/"},"headline":"Donald Trump: Bernie Sanders 'Showed Such Weakness' Letting Activists Disrupt Speech","datePublished":"2015-08-12T00:35:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T10:05:50.577Z","description":"\"That's not going to happen to Trump\"","url":"https://time.com/3993540/donald-trump-bernie-sanders-black-lives-matter/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic","Bernie Sanders","Donald Trump","Ferguson topic","black lives matter"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jack Linshi","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jack-linshi/"}],"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/3993540/donald-trump-bernie-sanders-black-lives-matter/","name":"Donald Trump: Bernie Sanders 'Showed Such Weakness' Letting Activists Disrupt Speech"}}]}] ```