--- title: Trevor Noah Faces Off With Tomi Lahren on The Daily Show description: In an extended clip from Wednesday night's episode of The Daily Show, Trevor Noah devotes nearly half an hour to debating Tomi Lahren. canonical: https://time.com/4587240/trevor-noah-tomi-lahren-daily-show-interview/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-01T17:02:25.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:39:04.476Z article:section: Politics og:title: Trevor Noah Faces Off With Tomi Lahren Over Donald Trump og:description: "I'm comparing Donald Trump to Hillary Clinton, not the pope" og:url: https://time.com/4587240/trevor-noah-tomi-lahren-daily-show-interview/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Trevor Noah Faces Off With Tomi Lahren Over Donald Trump twitter:description: "I'm comparing Donald Trump to Hillary Clinton, not the pope" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Trevor Noah Faces Off With Tomi Lahren: 'I'm Comparing Donald Trump to Hillary Clinton, Not the Pope' > Sponsored content. 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Brief is free at time.com/newsletters.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Dec 1, 2016 5:02 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Dec 1, 2016 5:02 PM UTC When it comes to [Trevor Noah](http://time.com/4585970/trevor-noah-donald-trump-toddler/) and TheBlaze host [Tomi Lahren](http://motto.time.com/4535594/donald-trump-young-women/), the two don’t agree on much. In an extended clip from Wednesday night’s episode of _The Daily Show_, Noah devoted nearly half an hour to debating the conservative commentator, taking time to challenge her opinions on [Donald Trump](http://time.com/4584718/trevor-noah-donald-trump/), the KKK and Black Lives Matter. Lahren spends much of the segment on the defensive, denying that any of her controversial statements — including on[ Colin Kaepernick](https://www.facebook.com/TomiLahren/videos/1063123907114129/) — are rooted in racism. “Because I criticized a black person or I criticized the Black Lives Matter movement that doesn’t mean that I’m anti-black. It does not mean that I don’t like black people or that I’m a racist,” she says. “I don’t see color. I go after Hillary Clinton and she’s as white as they come.” “You don’t see color? So what do you do at a traffic light?” Noah said in response. “I don’t believe in that at all. There’s nothing wrong with seeing color, it’s how you treat color that’s more important.” Lahren also shares her views on [Trump’s Access Hollywood tape](http://time.com/4523755/donald-trump-leaked-tape-impact/). “I’m comparing Donald Trump to Hillary Clinton, not the pope and not God,” she says. “So for me, what he said…it’s not defensible. 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