--- title: Mitt Romney Speech on Donald Trump Livestream description: Mitt Romney, the last candidate to lead the Republican Party into a presidential election, is to speak at the University of Utah on Thursday about... canonical: https://time.com/4246311/mitt-romney-donald-trump-speech/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-03T16:19:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T15:35:40.260Z article:section: Politics og:title: Mitt Romney Speech on Donald Trump Livestream og:description: Mitt Romney, the last candidate to lead the Republican Party into a presidential election, is to speak at the University of Utah on Thursday about... og:url: https://time.com/4246311/mitt-romney-donald-trump-speech/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Mitt Romney Speech on Donald Trump Livestream twitter:description: Mitt Romney, the last candidate to lead the Republican Party into a presidential election, is to speak at the University of Utah on Thursday about... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Live: Mitt Romney Speaks About Donald Trump by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Mar 3, 2016 4:19 PM UTC by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Mar 3, 2016 4:19 PM UTC Mitt Romney, the last candidate to lead the Republican Party into a presidential election, is to [speak at the University of Utah](http://time.com/4246148/mitt-romney-donald-trump/) on Thursday about Donald Trump, the property magnate currently on track to be this year’s Republican nominee. Excerpts from the speech showed the former Massachusetts governor was due to accuse Trump—whose success has alarmed the party’s establishment—of “playing the American public for suckers.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4246311/mitt-romney-donald-trump-speech/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4246311/mitt-romney-donald-trump-speech/"},"headline":"Watch Live: Mitt Romney Speaks About Donald Trump","datePublished":"2016-03-03T16:19:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T15:35:40.260Z","description":"Mitt Romney, the last candidate to lead the Republican Party into a presidential election, is to speak at the University of Utah on Thursday about...","url":"https://time.com/4246311/mitt-romney-donald-trump-speech/","keywords":["2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"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":"https://time.com/4246311/mitt-romney-donald-trump-speech/","name":"Watch Live: Mitt Romney Speaks About Donald Trump"}}]}] ```