Trevor Noah called Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz an 'a*****e' after he held a gun rally in Iowa just days after 14 people were killed in a shooting in San Bernardino, California.

On The Daily Show on Thursday night, host Noah criticized Cruz for hosting a Second Amendment event at Crossroads Shooting Sports in Johnstown, Iowa, two days after Wednesday's massacre.

'Fourteen people just lost their lives in a shooting, and Ted Cruz's first thought is "Oh, that reminds me: Gotta send out my invites to my gun party",' Noah said. 'Yeah, that seems like something you'd only do if you're an a*****e, which is turns out is exactly what voters are looking for.'

The Daily Show host Trevor Noah criticized Ted Cruz Thursday for hosting a Second Amendment event at in Johnstown, Iowa, two days after Wednesday's massacre in San Bernardino, California

Brian Meeker poses with Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz and a clip to a .45 pistol that was etched by Cruz following a Second Amendment Coalition announcement at CrossRoads Shooting Sports in Johnston, Iowa, on Friday

Cruz spoke to supporters at the Iowa shooting range, where he also announced his Second Amendment Coalition

Cruz visited the same gun range back in June, just three days after nine people were shot dead at a predominately black church in Charleston, South Carolina.

'He'll absolutely make note of what happened. But he is not going to back down or try to glaze over the importance of standing for our 2nd Amendment rights,' Catherine Frazier, Cruz's national press secretary, told ABC News of the event.

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'It's an appropriate conversation to have in the wake of this shooting with liberals coming right out of the gate calling for more gun control and policies that would dilute our 2nd Amendment rights,' she added.

In his comments about Cruz on Thursday, Noah took the opportunity to criticize the Texas senator's entire political platform.

'So the Republican it-girl is Freshman's Texas senator Ted Cruz. And those who have been following him and his story know him as the radical conservative, budget-slashing, anti-immigrant, climate denier who shut down the government over Obama care while opposing expanded background checks for guns,' Noah said.

The TV show host also showed a montage of people criticizing Cruz.

The montage included a quote from Cruz's former college roommate, Craig Mazin, who called Cruz a 'nightmare of human being'.

'Ted Cruz was my roommate. I did not like him at all in college,' Mazin said. 'And you know, I want to be clear, because Ted Cruz is a nightmare of a human being.

'I have plenty of problems with his politics, but truthfully his personality is so awful that 99 per cent of why I hate him is just his personality.

Cruz holds a new gun of a supporter after his speech at his Second Amendment Coalition gun rally on Friday

Cruz visited the same gun range back in June, just three days after nine people were shot dead at a predominately black church in Charleston, South Carolina

Brian Meeker hold a clip to a .45 pistol that was etched by Cruz. At the event, Cruz celebrated the backlash he's received from liberals over gun control

'if he agreed with me on every issue, I would hate him only one per cent less.'

At his event on Friday at the Iowa shooting range, Cruz unveiled his Second Amendment Coalition and said a few words on gun control.

'What keeps us safe are that we are a free people who have the God-given right to protect our homes and our families and our lives,' he said, according to the New York Daily News.

He added: 'Liberal Democrats think it is insensitive to celebrate our constitutional rights in the wake of a terrorist attack. It is these constitutional rights that keep us safe.

'Strict gun control laws are an abysmal failure. They don't work. You put them in place, you disarm the citizenry, the criminals have guns and crime goes up, murders go up, violent crime goes up.'

He also celebrated the backlash he's received from liberals on the matter.

'If you're a gun-grabbing big government, debt loving, weak America leftist, then a Cruz campaign is your nightmare,' he said. 'The men and women in this room terrify them.'

In his comments about Cruz on Thursday, Noah took the opportunity to criticize the Texas senator's entire political platform

Noah even resurfaced comments from Cruz's college roommate, who said that Cruz is a 'nightmare human being'