--- title: Donald Trump Defends Carly Fiorina Face Insult description: "I'm talking about persona. I'm not talking about look." canonical: https://time.com/4029266/donald-trump-carly-fiorina-defense/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-10T14:15:12.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T10:50:12.043Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Defends Carly Fiorina Face Comment og:description: "I'm talking about persona. I'm not talking about look." og:url: https://time.com/4029266/donald-trump-carly-fiorina-defense/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcaabba07144878b4/698862fd428a9e1359ccf093/donald-trump6.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Donald Trump at a Tea Party Patriots rally against the Iran nuclear deal on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 9, 2015. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Defends Carly Fiorina Face Comment twitter:description: "I'm talking about persona. I'm not talking about look." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcaabba07144878b4/698862fd428a9e1359ccf093/donald-trump6.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Defends 'Look at That Face' Remark About Carly Fiorina ## Video: Watch The Best Quotes By Donald Trump [Watch (HLS stream): Watch The Best Quotes By Donald Trump](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/7MzTpVq2.m3u8) (1:21)  _Published 2015-07-23. Donald Trump's Most Ridiculous Quotes_ by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Sep 10, 2015 2:15 PM CUT  Donald Trump at a Tea Party Patriots rally against the Iran nuclear deal on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 9, 2015. Donald Trump at a Tea Party Patriots rally against the Iran nuclear deal on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 9, 2015.Andrew Harrer—Bloomberg via Getty Images by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Sep 10, 2015 2:15 PM CUT Donald Trump says he was talking about Carly Fiorina’s “persona” – not her looks – when he suggested that voters won’t select the only woman in the GOP field because of “that face.” [In a new interview in _Rolling Stone_](http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/trump-seriously-20150909?page=13 "undefined") released late Wednesday, GOP frontrunner Trump said of the former HP chief “Look at that face!?” “Would anyone _vote_ for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next _president_?!” the magazine quotes Trump as saying while he and his staff watch a television appearance by Fiorina. The real estate mogul reportedly added: “I mean, she’s a woman, and I’m not… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/carly-fiorina-responds-after-donald-trump-insults-her-looks-n424801?cid=par-time-article%5F20150910 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4029266/donald-trump-carly-fiorina-defense/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4029266/donald-trump-carly-fiorina-defense/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Defends 'Look at That Face' Remark About Carly Fiorina","datePublished":"2015-09-10T14:15:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T10:50:12.043Z","description":"\"I'm talking about persona. 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