Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley strongly criticized former President Trump for what she deemed “disgusting” comments.

Trump, who currently enjoys a significant lead over Haley in the GOP primary race, made these remarks during a campaign event in Conway, S.C., over the weekend.

He questioned the absence of Haley’s military husband from her side on the campaign trail, a move that Haley found objectionable.

“What happened to her husband?” Trump asked at the South Carolina campaign event. “Where is he? He’s gone. He knew. He knew.”

CNN anchor Jake Tapper inquired about the former president’s remarks and the subsequent applause at the rally. In response, Nikki Haley expressed her disapproval, stating, “The first thing I’ll say is it’s disgusting.”

She pointed out that her husband, Maj. Michael Haley, is currently serving overseas with the South Carolina National Guard on a yearlong mission in the Horn of Africa, fulfilling the role of a staff officer with the 218th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade, The Hill reported.

“If you’re going to go and criticize a combat veteran, you criticize one veteran, you’re criticizing all of them. But this continues to be a pattern of what he’s doing whether he’s sitting there calling them suckers, whether he’s in Arlington Cemetery saying ‘why would they do this?’ Not understanding that no, my husband is not with me in a presidential campaign because he’s serious our country,” Haley said on Monday.

Haley on Sunday called Trump’s comments about her husband “insulting to military families.”

In an earlier statement to The Hill, Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung contended there “has been no bigger fighter for our military men and women than President Trump.”

Written by B.C. Begley