Donald Trump's presidential campaign is struggling to deal with Trump's comments about a 1996 Miss Universe winner's weight, but that's a pointless endeavor, Trevor Noah said on Wednesday's Daily Show. "The thing we're learning about Donald Trump every day is that he doesn't just treat beauty pageants like beauty pageants," he said, he also treats his rival candidates that way, and employees. "Experience doesn't matter," Noah said after showing a clip of Trump explaining how he hired a novice waitress because of her beauty. "If Trump thinks you're hot, then you're hired."
Noah made his case with a couple of other clips, including one where Trump and second wife Marla Maples tell Robin Leach which one of them 1-year-old daughter Tiffany takes after. "I don't care how many times you watch that, it never stops being creepy," Noah said. "There is no context in which Trump will not zero in on a woman's looks." He then turned to Trump's comments on the radio in 2004 after a 23-year-old female teacher was arrested for having sex with a 14-year-old male student. "I mean, wow, is there anything Trump doesn't judge by how hot the woman is? God forbid America, under President Trump, is ever invaded by Sweden!"
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