--- title: Donald Trump Takes Aim at Bill Clinton in Hillary Attack description: Donald Trump took a swipe at Hillary Clinton with a jibe about her husband late Saturday canonical: https://time.com/4161702/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-bill/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-27T14:30:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T13:38:40.651Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Takes Aim at Bill Clinton for 'Sexism' og:description: Trump has defended his use of the term "schlonged" og:url: https://time.com/4161702/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-bill/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc01b348495cd5a58/698876e7428a9e36a8cd0ba9/donald-trump29.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 Campaigns In Grand Rapids og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Takes Aim at Bill Clinton for 'Sexism' twitter:description: Trump has defended his use of the term "schlonged" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc01b348495cd5a58/698876e7428a9e36a8cd0ba9/donald-trump29.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Takes Aim at Bill Clinton for 'Sexism' by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Dec 27, 2015 2:30 PM UTC  Donald Trump speaks to guests at a campaign rally on Dec. 21, 2015 in Grand Rapids, MI. Donald Trump speaks to guests at a campaign rally on Dec. 21, 2015 in Grand Rapids, MI.Scott Olson—Getty Images by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Dec 27, 2015 2:30 PM UTC Donald Trump took a swipe at Hillary Clinton with a jibe about her husband late Saturday, the latest in a war of words between the two presidential hopefuls. The Republican frontrunner sparked a firestorm last week for calling Clinton’s debate bathroom break “disgusting” and for saying she had been “schlonged” in the 2008 Democratic primary. While Clinton wouldn’t respond directly to the remarks, she told the Des Moines Register she deplored the “tone” of Trump’s campaign and said he had shown a “penchant for sexism.” Trump has since defended his use of the term “schlonged” and struck out against allegations of sexism… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/donald-trump-takes-aim-bill-clinton-sexism-n486301) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4161702/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-bill/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4161702/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-bill/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Takes Aim at Bill Clinton for 'Sexism'","datePublished":"2015-12-27T14:30:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T13:38:40.651Z","description":"Trump has defended his use of the term \"schlonged\"","url":"https://time.com/4161702/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-bill/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc01b348495cd5a58/698876e7428a9e36a8cd0ba9/donald-trump29.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc01b348495cd5a58/698876e7428a9e36a8cd0ba9/donald-trump29.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Donald Trump Campaigns In Grand Rapids","caption":"Donald Trump Campaigns In Grand Rapids","creditText":"Scott Olson—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":"/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/4161702/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-bill/","name":"Donald Trump Takes Aim at Bill Clinton for 'Sexism'"}}]}] ```