--- ---  # Watch Every Time Trump Was Mentioned at the Debate by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Jan 29, 2016 6:17 AM UTC  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at aN event at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at aN event at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016.Andrew Harnik—AP by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Jan 29, 2016 6:17 AM UTC Donald Trump may not have been physically present at Thursday night’s [Republican debate](http://time.com/4199392/republican-debate-ted-cruz-donald-trump/) on Fox News, but his name was repeatedly invoked throughout the event. Even from the debate’s first moments, moderator Megyn Kelly asked Texas Sen. Ted Cruz about the “elephant not in the room,” prompting the second-place candidate to jokily insult the candidates around him in the style of the absent frontrunner. But Trump’s name — which he once said was [worth $3.3 billion](http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2015/06/16/donald%5Ftrump%5Ffinancial%5Fstatement%5Fhe%5Fsays%5Fhis%5Fname%5Falone%5Fis%5Fworth%5F3%5Fbillion.html) — came up at least a dozen more times during the Des Moines debate. Watch the video above to see every mention. Donald Trump Mentioned By Republicans During GOP Debate ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4199467/gop-debate-donald-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4199467/gop-debate-donald-trump/"},"headline":"Watch Every Time Trump Was Mentioned at the Debate","datePublished":"2016-01-29T06:17:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T14:33:51.313Z","description":"The elephant was not in the room","url":"https://time.com/4199467/gop-debate-donald-trump/","keywords":["Donald Trump","Debates"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1db5418fbe79fc14/69887b27196cf41e1003a146/republican-presidential-debate-gop-jan-28-photos-05.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1db5418fbe79fc14/69887b27196cf41e1003a146/republican-presidential-debate-gop-jan-28-photos-05.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Donald Trump","caption":"Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at aN event at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016.","creditText":"Andrew Harnik—AP","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/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4199467/gop-debate-donald-trump/","name":"Watch Every Time Trump Was Mentioned at the Debate"}}]}] ```