--- title: Donald Trump Mocks Ben Carson After His Surge in Iowa description: Speaking at a rally Friday, Trump said "I honestly think those polls are wrong" of the new survey showing him behind Ben Carson in Iowa. canonical: https://time.com/4085969/donald-trump-ben-carson-iowa/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-24T03:02:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T12:03:13.044Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Mocks Ben Carson After His Surge in Iowa og:description: "We informed Ben, but he was sleeping." og:url: https://time.com/4085969/donald-trump-ben-carson-iowa/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt80f4cfefeb80a065/6988685dcf40a80e77c4034b/donald-trump4.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 campaign rally in Las Vegas on Oct. 8, 2015. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Mocks Ben Carson After His Surge in Iowa twitter:description: "We informed Ben, but he was sleeping." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt80f4cfefeb80a065/6988685dcf40a80e77c4034b/donald-trump4.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Mocks Ben Carson After His Surge in Iowa  by [Tessa Berenson / Miami](/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson / Miami Oct 24, 2015 3:02 AM CUT  Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Las Vegas on Oct. 8, 2015. Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Las Vegas on Oct. 8, 2015.Isaac Brekken—Getty Images  by [Tessa Berenson / Miami](/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson / Miami Oct 24, 2015 3:02 AM CUT Real estate mogul Donald Trump recently [fell to second place in Iowa](http://time.com/4083568/ben-carson-donald-trump-iowa-poll-2/ "undefined") behind retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, and he was quick to dismiss the news at a campaign rally in Miami Friday night. Speaking at the Trump National Doral, Trump said “I honestly think those polls are wrong.” He lamented the wide coverage of his drop, saying “the press was so happy” about his apparent slip in the crucial caucus state. “If I were in first place, nobody would even mention it,” he said. After criticizing the press, Trump then turned to mocking the man who overtook him in Iowa. Imitating a newscaster and pretending to hold a microphone, Trump intoned, “Donald Trump has fallen to second place in Iowa behind Ben Carson. We informed Ben, but he was sleeping.” Trump followed up on Carson later in the speech, using an insult he’d previously used against former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. “Ben Carson is super low energy, am I right?” Trump asked the crowd. “Super low energy. We need tremendous energy.” **Read Next:** [_Trump Deletes Corn Tweet After Insulting Iowa Voters_](http://time.com/4084000/trump-iowa-corn/ "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4085969/donald-trump-ben-carson-iowa/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4085969/donald-trump-ben-carson-iowa/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Mocks Ben Carson After His Surge in Iowa","datePublished":"2015-10-24T03:02:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T12:03:13.044Z","description":"'We informed Ben, but he was sleeping.'","url":"https://time.com/4085969/donald-trump-ben-carson-iowa/","keywords":["Donald Trump","2016 Election topic","Dr. Benjamin S. 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