When Lester Holt asked Donald Trump to clarify what, exactly, he meant when he said Hillary Clinton doesn't have the "look" of an U.S. President, Trump took a chance to criticize Clinton further for what he says is a lack of "stamina."

"I don't believe that Hillary has the stamina," Trump said.

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Clinton interpreted Trump's criticism of her lack of stamina and non-presidential look as sexism because Clinton is a woman and Trump is a man, and then took the opportunity to call Trump out on his numerous previous sexist remarks.

"This is a man who has called women pigs, slobs, and dogs," Clinton said. "Someone who has said pregnancy is an inconvenience to employers, and has said women don't deserve equal pay unless they do as good a job as men." Clinton then referenced the fact that Trump referred to former Miss Universe contestant Alicia Machado as "Miss Piggy" and "Miss Housekeeping" as further proof of his sexist attitude.

In his closing remarks, Trump addressed Clinton's criticism of his sexism by saying her habit of running attack advertisements about him is "not nice" and that he doesn't deserve the negative ads. He segued this into addressing his long and tumultuous public relationship with Rosie O'Donnell, who he has spoken out against and attacked previously.

"I said very tough things to her and I think everybody would agree that she deserves it, and nobody feels sorry for her," Trump said of O'Donnell.

And then to round the argument out, Trump showed restraint by mentioning that he had something "extremely rough" to say to Hillary and her family, but wouldn't be saying it in the environment of this presidential debate. 

"I said to myself, I can't do it, I just can't do it, it's inappropriate, it's not nice," he said. "She's spent hundreds of millions of dollars on negative ads on me, many of which are absolutely untrue, and I will tell you this Lester, it's not nice and I don't deserve that. It's certainly not a nice thing that she's done."

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