--- title: Hillary Clinton Attacks Donald Trump in Speech: Read description: The Democrat went on the offensive against Donald Trump, speaking of "American exceptionalism." canonical: https://time.com/4474619/read-hillary-clinton-american-legion-speech/ author: Daniel White article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-31T19:21:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2024-01-24T12:29:19.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read Hillary Clinton's Speech Touting 'American Exceptionalism' og:description: The Democrat went on the offensive against Donald Trump og:url: https://time.com/4474619/read-hillary-clinton-american-legion-speech/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb07a8f17d00fcde0/6988a439a988ca57a86b93f6/hillary-clinton-legal-questions.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: US-VOTE-DEMOCRATS-CLINTON og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read Hillary Clinton's Speech Touting 'American Exceptionalism' twitter:description: The Democrat went on the offensive against Donald Trump twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb07a8f17d00fcde0/6988a439a988ca57a86b93f6/hillary-clinton-legal-questions.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read Hillary Clinton's Speech Touting 'American Exceptionalism' by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Updated: Jan 24, 2024 12:29 PM UTCPublished: Aug 31, 2016 7:21 PM UTC  Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a campaign event in Reno, Nevada on August 25, 2016. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a campaign event in Reno, Nevada on August 25, 2016.JOSH EDELSON—AFP/Getty Images by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Updated: Jan 24, 2024 12:29 PM UTCPublished: Aug 31, 2016 7:21 PM UTC [Hillary Clinton ](http://time.com/4474570/hillary-clinton-favorabillity-record-low/)went on the offensive against [Donald Trump](http://time.com/4473848/why-donald-trump-is-going-to-mexico/) in a speech she gave Wednesday in Cincinnati. Appearing at the American Legion’s national convention, [Clinton](http://time.com/4474396/watch-hillary-clinton-american-legion-speech/) spoke about her support of “American exceptionalism” and why she thinks Donald Trump doesn’t support the idea. Read the full speech below. --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4474619/read-hillary-clinton-american-legion-speech/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4474619/read-hillary-clinton-american-legion-speech/"},"headline":"Read Hillary Clinton's Speech Touting 'American Exceptionalism'","datePublished":"2016-08-31T19:21:59.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-24T12:29:19.000Z","description":"The Democrat went on the offensive against Donald Trump","url":"https://time.com/4474619/read-hillary-clinton-american-legion-speech/","keywords":["2016 Election","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election topic","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb07a8f17d00fcde0/6988a439a988ca57a86b93f6/hillary-clinton-legal-questions.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel White","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-white/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb07a8f17d00fcde0/6988a439a988ca57a86b93f6/hillary-clinton-legal-questions.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-VOTE-DEMOCRATS-CLINTON","caption":"US-VOTE-DEMOCRATS-CLINTON","creditText":"JOSH EDELSON—AFP/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/4474619/read-hillary-clinton-american-legion-speech/","name":"Read Hillary Clinton's Speech Touting 'American Exceptionalism'"}}]}] ```