Donald Trump pushed back Tuesday against Hillary Clinton's claim that his tough talk on Islamic radicalism has become a 'recruiting tool' for the ISIS terror army.

'She goes around saying, "It's a recruiting tool," Trump told a packed basketball arena during an unusually short 26-minute speech at North Carolina's High Point University.

'You know somebody gave her that from Madison Avenue. You know about it – that's advertising. They gave her that, they said, "Let's call it a recruiting tool!'

'Why? Because I'm tough it's a recruiting tool?' Trump asked. 'It demonstrates a level of ignorance about the terror threat that really is disqualifying for a person seeking the presidency.'

Clinton all but accused Trump of treason on Monday, saying the Republican nominee is a 'recruiting sergeant' for terrorists and has given 'aid and comfort' to ISIS by framing America as the picture of anti-Islam intolerance – just as terrorists in the Middle East tend to do.

Donald Trump shoved back against Hillary Clinton's latest claim that he's a 'recruiting tool' for the ISIS terror army

Trump told a capacity crowd in High Point, N.C. that Clinton would rather 'censor our vocabulary' than talk tough

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'We're going after the bad guys, and we're going to get them, but we're not going after an entire religion,' she told reporters. 'We know that Donald Trump's comments have been used online for the recruitment of terrorists.'

Clinton first claimed during a Democratic primary debate in December 2015 that Trump was an ISIS recruiting tool, and the Republican quickly demanded an apology

Trump shoved back – hard.

'When she says my opposition to radical Islamic terror provides aid and comfort to the enemy, we know that Hillary Clinton has once again demonstrated that she's really unfit for office,' Trump said to cheers.

'Her comments are not only reckless but beneath the dignity of the office that she seeks.'

'ISIS is torturing, murdering, executing and exterminating people in a campaign of genocide. And what is Hillary Clinton suggesting? What is she suggesting? You know what she's suggesting: "Let's let more people come in" – that we should censor our vocabulary so as not to upset these butchers.'

'I have news for Hillary. Refusing to call out radical Islam will not lessen the danger. It will only increase and embolden the danger, just like we have seen during her disastrous and failed term as secretary of state.'

'I'm much tougher than her,' he added later.

Trump tweeted before Tuesday afternoon's rally: 'Crooked Hillary has been fighting ISIS, or whatever she has been doing, for years. Now she has new ideas? It is time for change.'

Clinton all but accused Trump of treason on Monday, saying the Republican nominee is a 'recruiting sergeant' for terrorists and has given 'aid and comfort' to ISIS

The Republican presidential candidate has batted down similar accusations in the past, with Politifact calling the 'recruiting tool' claim 'false

While Clinton has emphasized the extent to which Trump's incendiary rhetoric may have given terrorist organizers something to rally against, the Obama administration has simultaneously boasted that recruitment is flagging and terror groups have been weakened by coalition airstrikes.

The U.S. State Department reported in April, long after Trump's dalliance with a 'total and complete ban' on Muslim immigration, that the number of ISIS fighters in Syria had reached a two-year low.

Clinton has made similar claims in the past about Trump's words being used to organize anti-U.S. soldiers. In January she pointed to a 51-minute recruiting video including clips of Trump, which was produced by the African terror group al-Shabab, incorrectly labeling it an ISIS effort.

And in December she claimed during a Democratic primary debate that Trump 'is becoming ISIS's best recruiter. They are going to people showing videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists.'

Trump demanded an apology and Politifact.com rated Clinton's claim as 'false.'

But Clinton press secretary Brian Fallon lobbed his own Trump-like word bomb back in the Republican's direction.

'Hell no, Hillary Clinton will not be apologizing to Donald Trump for correctly pointing out how his hateful rhetoric only helps ISIS recruit more terrorists,' said Fallon.

In December ISIS did release a propaganda video featuring prominent American politicians: Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and George W. Bush.

The video described America as 'a secular state built on man-made laws, whose soldiers fight for the interests of government legislators, liars, fornicators, corporations and for the freedoms of sodomites.'

Bill Clinton's face hit the screen when the narrator mentioned 'fornicators.'