--- title: Donald Trump Responds to Travel Ban Ruling: Full Transcript description: President Trump on Wednesday responded to a new restraining order on his revised travel ban at a rally in Nashville. Here's what he said canonical: https://time.com/4703622/president-trump-speech-transcript-travel-ban-ruling/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-16T15:15:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T03:52:46.757Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read President Trump’s Response to the Travel Ban Ruling: It ‘Makes Us Look Weak’ og:description: He criticized the ruling as "an unprecedented judicial overreach" og:url: https://time.com/4703622/president-trump-speech-transcript-travel-ban-ruling/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5c46d12bf8109514/6988be9e8e06011db5469943/donald-trump-nashville-transcript.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: President Trump Holds Rally In Nashville, Tennessee og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read President Trump’s Response to the Travel Ban Ruling: It ‘Makes Us Look Weak’ twitter:description: He criticized the ruling as "an unprecedented judicial overreach" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5c46d12bf8109514/6988be9e8e06011db5469943/donald-trump-nashville-transcript.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read President Trump’s Response to the Travel Ban Ruling: It ‘Makes Us Look Weak’  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Mar 16, 2017 3:15 PM UTC  President Donald Trump speaks at a rally on March 15, 2017 in Nashville, Tennessee. President Donald Trump speaks at a rally on March 15, 2017 in Nashville, Tennessee.Andrea Morales/Getty Images  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Mar 16, 2017 3:15 PM UTC President Donald Trump on Wednesday spoke at a rally in Nashville, Tenn., where he [responded](http://time.com/4703390/president-trumps-words-hurt-his-travel-ban/) to a new ruling by a federal judge in Hawaii placing a [nationwide restraining order](http://time.com/4703188/donald-trump-travel-ban-blocked-read-court-decision/) on his [revised travel ban](http://time.com/4697704/trump-travel-ban-legal-challenges/). Trump criticized the ruling as “an unprecedented judicial overreach.” “You don’t think this was done by a judge for political reasons, do you? No,” he said to applause. “This ruling makes us look weak, which, by the way, we no longer are. Believe me.” Read Trump’s full remarks from the rally, where he also spoke about the [Republican health care plan](http://time.com/4700200/donald-trump-cbo-healthcare-obamare/): --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4703622/president-trump-speech-transcript-travel-ban-ruling/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4703622/president-trump-speech-transcript-travel-ban-ruling/"},"headline":"Read President Trump’s Response to the Travel Ban Ruling: It ‘Makes Us Look Weak’","datePublished":"2017-03-16T15:15:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T03:52:46.757Z","description":"President Trump on Wednesday responded to a new restraining order on his revised travel ban at a rally in Nashville. 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