Trevor Noah Blasts Matt Lauer’s Commander-in-Chief Forum Performance

Presidential candidates of the two major parties, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, stepped on the same stage to answer questions from American military veterans during a unique televised forum that left a lot to be desired on specifics.

At the NBC “Commander in Chief” forum Wednesday night, Clinton and Trump were separately questioned by anchor Matt Lauer on various national security and foreign policy topics.

Hillary Clinton fields a question from the audience during the Commander-in-Chief forum put on by the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America and hosted by NBC’s “Today” show host Matt Lauer Wednesday night.

“The main thing is, I have good judgment”, said Trump, who spent a good chunk of his half hour slamming Clinton and President Obama.

Obama also hit back at Trump for criticizing his foreign policy record, saying the Republican nominee was unfit to follow him into the Oval Office and the public should press him on his “outright wacky ideas”. But do you want me to start naming some of the things that President Obama does at the same time?

Clinton’s campaign manager went on to attack Trump Thursday morning on GMA, arguing that Trump doesn’t have a strategy to combat ISIS. Meanwhile, he spent a third of his time with Clinton on questions about her private email server, meaning that he had nearly no time to ask her about anything else.

But as The New York Times points out, other moderators could run into similar issues when the formal presidential debates begin later this month, especially with Trump.

“Even I was shocked by this”, Clinton said later at a rally in Charlotte, in the battleground state of North Carolina.

“But I would say just analytically in terms of what happened, I thought Trump actually did pretty well and this should have been Hillary Clinton’s strongest evening, really”. But she defended her support for USA military intervention to help oust a dictator in Libya, despite the chaotic aftermath. Tough questions were directed toward Trump in regards to his statement that he knew more about ISIS than the generals did. “I could see myself working that”. He replied, “Yeah, I guess so”. He stood by a previous comment that appeared to blame military sexual assaults on men and women serving together, but added he would not seek to remove women from the military.

Earlier Wednesday, Trump called for ending the sequester on military spending to boost troops numbers and number of ships and aircraft.

Trump’s address in Philadelphia also included plans to eliminate deep spending cuts known as the “sequester” that were enacted when Congress failed to reach a budget compromise in 2011.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Friday praised Matt Lauer’s interviewing skills during an appearance before the Values Voter Summit in Washington, DC.