--- title: Donald Trump on Mitt Romney: 'Are You Sure He's a Mormon?' description: Trump questioned the former nominee's faith at a rally in Utah canonical: https://time.com/4265211/donald-trump-mitt-romney-mormon/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-19T14:03:18.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T16:03:01.441Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump on Mitt Romney: 'Are You Sure He's a Mormon?' og:description: Trump questioned the former nominee's faith at a rally in Utah og:url: https://time.com/4265211/donald-trump-mitt-romney-mormon/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt103e8302ebc324f8/69888bb9ab6d7724a16a8eb2/donald-trump23.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 Holds Rally In Utah Ahead Of State's Caucuses og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump on Mitt Romney: 'Are You Sure He's a Mormon?' twitter:description: Trump questioned the former nominee's faith at a rally in Utah twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt103e8302ebc324f8/69888bb9ab6d7724a16a8eb2/donald-trump23.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump on Mitt Romney: 'Are You Sure He's a Mormon?' by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Mar 19, 2016 2:03 PM UTC  Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Salt Lake City, Utah, on March 18, 2016. Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Salt Lake City, Utah, on March 18, 2016.George Frey—Getty Images by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Mar 19, 2016 2:03 PM UTC As Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump swept through Utah for a Friday night rally, he questioned the faith of former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, as protesters demonstrated outside the doors to the venue. “I have many friends that live in Salt Lake, I have a lot of friends,” Trump told his audience. “No, I have a lot of friends. By the way, Mitt Romney is not one of them. Did he choke? Did this guy choke? He’s a choke artist, I can’t believe. Are you sure he’s a Mormon, are we sure?” Trump made numerous references to Mormons in. . . [_Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News_](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/trump-questions-romney-s-mormon-faith-utah-rally-n541851?cid=par-time%5F20160319) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4265211/donald-trump-mitt-romney-mormon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4265211/donald-trump-mitt-romney-mormon/"},"headline":"Donald Trump on Mitt Romney: 'Are You Sure He's a Mormon?'","datePublished":"2016-03-19T14:03:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T16:03:01.441Z","description":"Trump questioned the former nominee's faith at a rally in Utah","url":"https://time.com/4265211/donald-trump-mitt-romney-mormon/","keywords":["Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt103e8302ebc324f8/69888bb9ab6d7724a16a8eb2/donald-trump23.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/blt103e8302ebc324f8/69888bb9ab6d7724a16a8eb2/donald-trump23.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Donald Trump Holds Rally In Utah Ahead Of State's Caucuses","caption":"Donald Trump Holds Rally In Utah Ahead Of State's Caucuses","creditText":"George Frey—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/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4265211/donald-trump-mitt-romney-mormon/","name":"Donald Trump on Mitt Romney: 'Are You Sure He's a Mormon?'"}}]}] ```