--- title: Presidential Debate: Trump Calls Clinton 'Nasty Woman' description: Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton a "nasty woman" at the final presidential debate. canonical: https://time.com/4537960/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-nasty-woman-debate/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-20T03:27:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T17:23:10.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch Trump Call Clinton a 'Nasty Woman' og:description: At the final presidential debate. og:url: https://time.com/4537960/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-nasty-woman-debate/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfdd282373c9f61df/6988aac4bc6cfc204b3df017/presidential-debate-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-25.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4000 og:image:height: 2250 og:image:alt: TIMEPOL Debate og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Trump Call Clinton a 'Nasty Woman' twitter:description: At the final presidential debate. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfdd282373c9f61df/6988aac4bc6cfc204b3df017/presidential-debate-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-25.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 video:duration: 00:22 video:published: 2016-10-20 section: politics topics: Social Security, payroll contributions, Social Security Trust Fund, raising the cap, funding sources, presidential debate, entitlement funding genre: debate, news clip tones: pointed, policy-focused, assertive, sarcastic emotions: confidence (medium), sarcasm (low), resolve (medium) sentiment: neutral audience: voters, political news followers, policy-minded viewers, general news audience people: Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump organizations: Social Security Trust Fund content_suitability: politics [00:00-00:22] transcript_source: automatic transcription transcript_reviewed: not applicable ---  # Watch Donald Trump Call Hillary Clinton a 'Nasty Woman' > Sponsored content. 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Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton a “nasty woman” at the final presidential debate_ Description, summary, key points, chapters, key quotes, questions and transcript, where present, were produced automatically from the video or its captions and were not reviewed. ## Summary The clip features a speaker discussing the future of Social Security funding. The speaker says their own payroll contribution would go up, as would Donald's. They state the goal of replenishing the Social Security Trust Fund with sufficient resources. The speaker names raising the cap and finding other ways to bring in more money as the sources of that funding. ## Key points - The speaker says their Social Security payroll contribution will go up under the plan described. (00:00) - The speaker says Donald's payroll contribution will also go up, assuming he cannot figure out how to get out of it. (00:00) - The stated aim is to replenish the Social Security Trust Fund. (00:07) - The speaker says the fund needs sufficient resources, which the plan would secure. (00:07) - The speaker says the money will come from raising the cap, or from other ways of getting more money into the fund, or both. (00:16) - Funding sources are described as either raising the cap and/or finding other ways to add money. (00:16) ## Chapters - [00:00 to 00:07] Payroll contributions would rise. The speaker says their own and Donald's Social Security payroll contributions will go up. - [00:07 to 00:16] Goal of replenishing the Trust Fund. The speaker states the aim of replenishing the Social Security Trust Fund with sufficient resources. - [00:16 to 00:22] Raising the cap and other sources. The speaker names raising the cap and finding other ways to add money as the funding sources. ## Key quotes - [00:00] Hillary Clinton: "My Social Security Payroll contribution will go up, as will Donald's, assuming he can't figure out how to get out of it." - [00:07] Hillary Clinton: "But what we want to do is to replenish the Social Security Trust Fund by making sure that we have sufficient resources." - [00:16] Hillary Clinton: "And that will come from either raising the cap and or finding other ways to get more money into it." ## Questions this video answers - What happens to the speaker's Social Security payroll contribution under the plan? [00:00] - What does the speaker say about Donald's payroll contribution? [00:00] - What is the goal for the Social Security Trust Fund? [00:07] - Where would the additional Social Security money come from? [00:16] ## Content suitability - politics [00:00-00:22]: Political debate content about Social Security funding and payroll contributions.  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Updated: Dec 13, 2023 5:23 PM UTCPublished: Oct 20, 2016 3:27 AM UTC Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton a “nasty woman” at the final presidential debate  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Updated: Dec 13, 2023 5:23 PM UTCPublished: Oct 20, 2016 3:27 AM UTC Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton a “nasty woman” at the final presidential debate. During a discussion of entitlement reform, Clinton jabbed Trump for [avoiding paying income tax](http://time.com/4515840/donald-trump-tax-records-loss) for a number of years. “We need to put more more money into the Social Security trust fund,” she said. “That’s part of my commitment to raise taxes on the wealthy. My Social Security payroll contribution will go up, as will Donald’s, assuming he can’t figure out how to get out of it.” Trump interjected: “Such a nasty woman.” Earlier in the debate, Trump had avoided making just that kind of comment, when in a discussion of Vladimir Putin he said the Russian leader has “has no respect for this person.” Clinton’s Twitter account was quick to call Trump out for the phrasing, while someone went ahead and registered a vanity URL that redirects to her campaign page. > [](https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/788931981446877184) > [](https://twitter.com/sarahdevin/status/788942007649599488) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4537960/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-nasty-woman-debate/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4537960/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-nasty-woman-debate/"},"headline":"Watch Donald Trump Call Hillary Clinton a 'Nasty Woman'","datePublished":"2016-10-20T03:27:28.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T17:23:10.000Z","description":"Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton a \"nasty woman\" at the final presidential debate.","url":"https://time.com/4537960/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-nasty-woman-debate/","keywords":["Debates","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfdd282373c9f61df/6988aac4bc6cfc204b3df017/presidential-debate-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-25.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfdd282373c9f61df/6988aac4bc6cfc204b3df017/presidential-debate-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-25.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"TIMEPOL Debate","caption":"Trump speaks as Clinton listens during their third and final 2016 presidential campaign debate at UNLV in Las Vegas","creditText":"Mark Ralston—Press Pool/Reuters","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":"https://time.com/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/debates/","name":"Debates"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4537960/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-nasty-woman-debate/","name":"Watch Donald Trump Call Hillary Clinton a 'Nasty Woman'"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Watch Donald Trump Call Hillary Clinton a ‘Nasty Woman’","description":"Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton a “nasty woman” at the final presidential debate","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/pjbFhuXg/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2016-10-20T02:50:54.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/pjbFhuXg.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4537960/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-nasty-woman-debate/","duration":"PT22S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4537960/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-nasty-woman-debate/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```