--- description: Donald Trump's on-again, off-again relationship with former President Bill Clinton is apparently off, again. title: Donald Trump Is Feuding With Bill Clinton, Again image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt358821f68db3a4d5/6988b38c0b72e3597f6ec1b9/gettyimages-622115576.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Politics](/section/politics/) ## Politics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Donald Trump](/tag/donald-trump/) ## Donald Trump Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Donald Trump's On-Again, Off-Again Relationship With Bill Clinton Is Off, Again by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Updated: Dec 13, 2023 2:19 PM CUTPublished: Dec 20, 2016 4:08 PM CUT  MANHATTAN, NY - The morning after loosing to Republican Nominee Donald Trump in the general Presidential election, Democratic Nominee for President of the United States former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, accompanied by former President Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, Senator Tim Kaine and Anne Holton, speaks to supporters and campaign staff in a packed ballroom at The New Yorker Hotel in midtown Manhattan, New York on Wednesday November 9, 2016\. (Photo by Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images) MANHATTAN, NY - The morning after loosing to Republican Nominee Donald Trump in the general Presidential election, Democratic Nominee for President of the United States former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, accompanied by former President Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, Senator Tim Kaine and Anne Holton, speaks to supporters and campaign staff in a packed ballroom at The New Yorker Hotel in midtown Manhattan, New York on Wednesday November 9, 2016\. (Photo by Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images)The Washington Post—The Washington Post/Getty Images by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Updated: Dec 13, 2023 2:19 PM CUTPublished: Dec 20, 2016 4:08 PM CUT Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again relationship with former President Bill Clinton is apparently off, again. The husband of failed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton [told a journalist from a small New York newspaper](http://www.record-review.com/record-review/12-16-16%5FEditorial%5F%5FMr.%5FPresident,%5Fone%5Fmore%5Fquestion.html "undefined") on Monday that the President-elect called him after the election for a strangely friendly phone call [“like it was 15 years ago”](http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/bill-clinton-trump-hillary-loss-232803 "undefined") when the two used to socialize, but he also criticized Trump’s intelligence. “He doesn’t know much,” he said. “One thing he does know is how to get angry, white men to vote for him.” Trump [fired back on Twitter](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/811195441710764032 "undefined") Tuesday morning. “Bill Clinton stated that I called him after the election. Wrong, he called me (with a very nice congratulations). He ‘doesn’t know much’ …,” he wrote, adding, “especially how to get people, even with an unlimited budget, out to vote in the vital swing states ( and more). They focused on wrong states.” Trump has had a tortured relationship with the Clintons, who [attended his wedding](http://time.com/3988313/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-wedding/ "undefined") to Melania. Bill Clinton [met with Trump on social occasions](http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/new-photos-bill-clinton-trump-melania-227945 "undefined") from time to time, including golf outings, and in January Trump still had [a framed photo](http://time.com/4169503/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-wedding-photo/ "undefined") with them on his piano. But during the election, he frequently criticized both Clintons as corrupt and ineffective politicians, [even attacking their marriage](http://time.com/4515676/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-bill-clinton-marriage/ "undefined"). Clinton later clarified what happened on Twitter a little. > [](https://twitter.com/billclinton/status/811274251672158212) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4607885/donald-trumps-on-again-off-again-relationship-with-bill-clinton-is-off-again/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4607885/donald-trumps-on-again-off-again-relationship-with-bill-clinton-is-off-again/"},"headline":"Donald Trump's On-Again, Off-Again Relationship With Bill Clinton Is Off, Again","datePublished":"2016-12-20T16:08:56.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T14:19:42.000Z","description":"Donald Trump's on-again, off-again relationship with former President Bill Clinton is apparently off, again.","url":"https://time.com/4607885/donald-trumps-on-again-off-again-relationship-with-bill-clinton-is-off-again/","keywords":["Donald Trump","Hillary Clinton","Bill Clinton"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt358821f68db3a4d5/6988b38c0b72e3597f6ec1b9/gettyimages-622115576.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ryan Teague Beckwith","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt358821f68db3a4d5/6988b38c0b72e3597f6ec1b9/gettyimages-622115576.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Democratic Nominee for President of the United States former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton","caption":"Democratic Nominee for President of the United States former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton","creditText":"The Washington Post—The Washington Post/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/4607885/donald-trumps-on-again-off-again-relationship-with-bill-clinton-is-off-again/","name":"Donald Trump's On-Again, Off-Again Relationship With Bill Clinton Is Off, Again"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Donald Trump Appears with Bill Clinton Accusers","description":"Donald Trump appears with a panel made up of women who accused Bill Clinton of sexual assault before the second presidential debate.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/GC4blSmO/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2016-10-10T00:07:00.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/GC4blSmO.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4607885/donald-trumps-on-again-off-again-relationship-with-bill-clinton-is-off-again/","duration":"PT2M50S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4607885/donald-trumps-on-again-off-again-relationship-with-bill-clinton-is-off-again/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```