--- title: Trump Deletes Corn Tweet After Insulting Iowa Voters description: Donald Trump retweeted an insult about Iowa corn, then blamed it on a "young intern" canonical: https://time.com/4084000/trump-iowa-corn/ author: Daniel White article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-22T21:03:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:46:59.329Z article:section: Politics og:title: Trump Deletes Corn Tweet After Insulting Iowa Voters og:description: The GOP frontrunner blamed the twitter gaffe on a "young intern." og:url: https://time.com/4084000/trump-iowa-corn/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte8680f13af1fabca/69886971a988caa1ba6b4ecb/donald-trump8.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Burlington Memorial Auditorium in Burlington, Iowa, October 21, 2015. 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Shortly after the release of a poll Thursday, which showed [Ben Carson edging out Trump among Republican voters in Iowa](http://time.com/4083568/ben-carson-donald-trump-iowa-poll-2/), the real estate mogul’s account retweeted a supporter who not only insulted their intelligence, but called into question the one thing Iowans don’t play about—their corn. --- > “” --- The tweet implied that brain issues created by genetically modified corn had caused Iowans to give Carson an 8 point lead over the billionaire. The tweet, now deleted, sent the state into a storm, according to [The Des Moines Register](http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2015/10/22/donald-trump-just-tweeted-what-iowa-corn/74397268/). Trump later explained that a “young intern” was to blame for the retweet. However, the New York Times [reported](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/06/us/politics/donald-trump-twitter-use-campaign-2016.html?%5Fr=1) that Trump does tweet some of his own material. > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/657270071979585536) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4084000/trump-iowa-corn/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4084000/trump-iowa-corn/"},"headline":"Trump Deletes Corn Tweet After Insulting Iowa Voters","datePublished":"2015-10-22T21:03:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:46:59.329Z","description":"The GOP frontrunner blamed the twitter gaffe on a \"young intern\"","url":"https://time.com/4084000/trump-iowa-corn/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election","Donald Trump","iowa caucus"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte8680f13af1fabca/69886971a988caa1ba6b4ecb/donald-trump8.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel White","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-white/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte8680f13af1fabca/69886971a988caa1ba6b4ecb/donald-trump8.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Burlington Memorial Auditorium in Burlington, Iowa, October 21, 2015. 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