--- title: Hillary Clinton Ads: She Uses Kids Against Donald Trump description: Hillary Clinton has made liberal use of young kids in her campaign ads to cast Donald Trump's more aggressive campaign style in a poor light. canonical: https://time.com/4472818/hillary-clinton-kids-campaign-ads-donald-trump/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-30T17:12:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T00:17:32.540Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch Hillary Clinton Use Kids Against Donald Trump og:description: In her campaign ads. og:url: https://time.com/4472818/hillary-clinton-kids-campaign-ads-donald-trump/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt78125dc5bd6cf8d6/6988a1d8e20a87b7c2a91fed/gettyimages-527449452.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Hillary Clinton og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Hillary Clinton Use Kids Against Donald Trump twitter:description: In her campaign ads. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt78125dc5bd6cf8d6/6988a1d8e20a87b7c2a91fed/gettyimages-527449452.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Hillary Clinton Use Kids Against Donald Trump by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Aug 30, 2016 5:12 PM UTC  Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton buys Girl Scout cookies at the Girl Scouts of Kentucky shop in Ashland, Ky., on Monday, May 2, 2016. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton buys Girl Scout cookies at the Girl Scouts of Kentucky shop in Ashland, Ky., on Monday, May 2, 2016.Bill Clark—CQ-Roll Call,Inc. by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Aug 30, 2016 5:12 PM UTC Hillary Clinton is using children to hit Donald Trump in her campaign ads. The Democratic nominee has made liberal use of young kids in her ads to [promote her own work on families](http://time.com/4370997/hillary-clinton-children-ads/) but also to cast Trump’s more aggressive campaign style in a poor light. One memorable ad shows nothing but young children watching Trump speak on TV as he says some of his less family-friendly quotes of the election. Watch the video above to see how Clinton has used this staple of campaign ads in a new way. **Read More:** [_Why Hillary Clinton Keeps Calling on Kids at Town Halls_](http://time.com/4164159/hillary-clinton-town-halls-kids/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4472818/hillary-clinton-kids-campaign-ads-donald-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4472818/hillary-clinton-kids-campaign-ads-donald-trump/"},"headline":"Watch Hillary Clinton Use Kids Against Donald Trump","datePublished":"2016-08-30T17:12:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T00:17:32.540Z","description":"Hillary Clinton has made liberal use of young kids in her campaign ads to cast Donald Trump's more aggressive campaign style in a poor light.","url":"https://time.com/4472818/hillary-clinton-kids-campaign-ads-donald-trump/","keywords":["campaign ads","Hillary Clinton","Children","2016 Election topic","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt78125dc5bd6cf8d6/6988a1d8e20a87b7c2a91fed/gettyimages-527449452.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/blt78125dc5bd6cf8d6/6988a1d8e20a87b7c2a91fed/gettyimages-527449452.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Hillary Clinton","caption":"Hillary Clinton","creditText":"Bill Clark—CQ-Roll Call,Inc.","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/campaign-ads/","name":"campaign ads"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4472818/hillary-clinton-kids-campaign-ads-donald-trump/","name":"Watch Hillary Clinton Use Kids Against Donald Trump"}}]}] ```