--- title: Daily Show Slams Donald Trump Afghanistan War Strategy description: Trevor Noah critiques Donald Trump's ambiguous strategy for the war in Afghanistan and highlights parallels between his speech and Obama's. canonical: https://time.com/4912246/trevor-noah-donald-trump-afghanistan-war-strategy/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-23T15:12:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:46:44.204Z og:title: Trevor Noah Slams Donald Trump's Afghanistan War Strategy og:description: "Trump is a problem solver the same way Godzilla is a city planner" og:url: https://time.com/4912246/trevor-noah-donald-trump-afghanistan-war-strategy/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0d11ac02a6046b67/6988dabf22fb857dfbe2282c/trevor-noah-donald-trump-afghanistan-war-strategy.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Just For Laughs Comedy Festival 2017 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Trevor Noah Slams Donald Trump's Afghanistan War Strategy twitter:description: "Trump is a problem solver the same way Godzilla is a city planner" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0d11ac02a6046b67/6988dabf22fb857dfbe2282c/trevor-noah-donald-trump-afghanistan-war-strategy.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Trevor Noah Says Donald Trump's Afghanistan War Strategy is Like His Position on Nazis: 'Unclear.'  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Aug 23, 2017 3:12 PM UTC  MONTREAL, QC - JULY 28: Trevor Noah attends the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival 2017 held at the Hyatt Regency on July 28, 2017 in Montreal, Canada. (Photo by GP Images/Getty Images) MONTREAL, QC - JULY 28: Trevor Noah attends the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival 2017 held at the Hyatt Regency on July 28, 2017 in Montreal, Canada. (Photo by GP Images/Getty Images)GP Images—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Aug 23, 2017 3:12 PM UTC [Trevor Noah](http://time.com/collection-post/4685792/trevor-noah-next-generation-leaders/) had some salient opinions about President Donald Trump’s speech on Monday, especially when it came to [the President’s strategy for the war in Afghanistan](http://time.com/4910380/donald-trump-afghanistan-reversal/). _The Daily Show_ host used Tuesday night segment to pint out he felt Trump’s inexperience was slightly discomforting. “I’m sorry, look, I know that he’s been president for seven months, but seeing Donald Trump making military decisions is still weird for me,” Noah said. “I mean, he must be the first human being in history who gets to command an army after starring in a Pizza Hut commercial.” Noah also seemed troubled by Trump’s plans for the Middle East. “Trump’s actual strategy is like his position on Nazis,” he said, drawing a parallel to [the president’s controversial comments following violent white nationalist protests and counter-protests in Charlottesville, VA](http://time.com/4902502/donald-trump-charlottesville-press-conference/). “It’s unclear.” He also riffed on the president’s assertion that he was a “problem solver” by drawing a cogent pop culture comparison. “Yeah, Trump is a problem solver the same way Godzilla is a city planner,” Noah joked. Noah closed his segment by pointing out that Trump may have taken a page out of Melania’s book when it came to taking inspiration for speeches from the Obamas, going so far as to show side-by-side comparisons of the two and remarking that it was like the President was “slapping his name on someone else’s project and doesn’t have any fresh thinking of this own.” Watch the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4912246/trevor-noah-donald-trump-afghanistan-war-strategy/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4912246/trevor-noah-donald-trump-afghanistan-war-strategy/"},"headline":"Trevor Noah Says Donald Trump's Afghanistan War Strategy is Like His Position on Nazis: 'Unclear.'","datePublished":"2017-08-23T15:12:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:46:44.204Z","description":"\"Trump is a problem solver the same way Godzilla is a city planner\"","url":"https://time.com/4912246/trevor-noah-donald-trump-afghanistan-war-strategy/","keywords":["Newsfeed","The Daily Show","Donald Trump","Late Night Television","trevor noah","The Daily Show with Trevor Noah"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0d11ac02a6046b67/6988dabf22fb857dfbe2282c/trevor-noah-donald-trump-afghanistan-war-strategy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0d11ac02a6046b67/6988dabf22fb857dfbe2282c/trevor-noah-donald-trump-afghanistan-war-strategy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Just For Laughs Comedy Festival 2017","caption":"Just For Laughs Comedy Festival 2017","creditText":"GP Images—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":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4912246/trevor-noah-donald-trump-afghanistan-war-strategy/","name":"Trevor Noah Says Donald Trump's Afghanistan War Strategy is Like His Position on Nazis: 'Unclear.'"}}]}] ```