Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt found something Donald Trump doesn’t win at on Thursday — knowing his terrorists.

“I’m looking for the next commander-in-chief, to know who Hassan Nasrallah is, and Zawahiri, and al-Julani, and al-Baghdadi. Do you know the players without a scorecard, yet, Donald Trump?” Hewitt asked the 2016 Republican candidate, referring to the respective leaders of Hezbollah, Al Qaeda, Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State.


“No," Trump said.

"You know, I’ll tell you honestly, I think by the time we get to office, they’ll all be changed. They’ll be all gone,” he said. “I knew you were going to ask me things like this, and there’s no reason, because, No. 1, I’ll find, I will hopefully find Gen. Douglas MacArthur in the pack.”

Trump said asking him who the key players are was a type of “gotcha question.”

“I will be so good at the military, your head will spin. But obviously, I’m not meeting these people. I’m not seeing these people,” Trump said.

"Now, as far as what you’re talking about now, I will know every detail, and I will have the right plan, not a plan like this where we’re probably going backwards based on everything that I’m hearing, but we’re probably going backwards, zero respect. We have, we are not a respected country, and certainly as it relates to ISIS and what’s going on, and Iran."

Trump also mixed up the Quds Force, the elite foreign unit of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, with the Kurds — the Middle Eastern ethnic group concentrated in nothern Iraq and parts of Iran, Syria and Turkey.

“Are you familiar with Gen. Soleimani?” Hewitt asked.

“Yes, but go ahead, give me a little, go ahead, tell me.” Trump said. “The Kurds, by the way, have been horribly mistreated by …”

“No, not the Kurds, the Quds Forces, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Quds Forces,” Hewitt said.

"Soleimani is to terrorism sort of what Trump is to real estate," Hewitt explained later.

"OK," Trump said.

"Many people would say he’s the most dangerous man in the world, and he runs the Quds Forces, which is their Navy SEALs," Hewitt elaborated.

"Is he the gentleman that was going back and forth with Russia and meeting with Putin?" Trump asked. "I read something, and that seems to be also where he’s at."

Hewitt responded: "That’s the guy."

Trump's comments drew a reaction from several rivals, including his most frequent foil, Jeb Bush.

Following a town hall in Laconia, New Hampshire, Thursday night, Bush told reporters that he saw a transcript of the Trump-Hewitt exchange — and he jabbed Trump over the mistakes.

"You gotta know who the players are," Bush said, trying to hold back a slight smile. "I'm sure, I'm sure he'll bone up now."

Later in the day, Hewitt asked GOP candidate Carly Fiorina the same set of questions.

Fiorina said that while she can sometimes mix up the names, she understands both the individuals and groups.

“I certainly understand where these terrorists are in play. I certainly understand that one of the most dangerous things that is going on right now is competition among these leaders and among their terrorist groups,” she said.

Fiorina said that the Quds will benefit from the Iranian nuclear treaty.

"The Iranian deal — which sadly, has just been approved by Congress — starts a massive flow of money, and that money is going to be used not only to build up an Iranian nuclear weapon — which they have been hell-bent on getting for 30 years — that money is also going to go to the Quds forces, going to go Hezbollah," she said.

