The speaking tour of former President Bill Clinton and his wife, former Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, started off with a dud.

The pair used the first stop on their tour, which happened in Canada, to take shots at President Donald Trump and his administration.

And she had another coughing fit.

Hillary Clinton had another coughing episode at a recent event. (I'm not making fun of her) pic.twitter.com/swhFD5CN2W — Austen Fletcher (@fleccas) November 28, 2018

But sadly for them they were speaking to a ton of empty seats, The Daily Mail reported.

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Bill and Hillary Clinton launched their 13-city paid speaking tour in a Canadian hockey arena Tuesday evening, where there were banks of empty seats and the power couple accused President Trump of joining a Saudi ‘cover-up.’

The Clintons riffed on issues ranging form the U.S. elections to the Iran deal, the killing of Osama bin Laden, and the murder of Saudi dissident Khashoggi, and got a warm reception from the crowd as they jabbed at the Trump administration from north of the border.

‘What makes this so troubling is how much commercial interest both the president’s family and business and his son in law’s family and business have with the kingdom,’ said Hillary Clinton in one of a series of shots at President Trump, who defeated her in 2016.

In an unexpected twist, the Clintons, who suffered throughout 2016 for making millions on paid speeches, were interviewed by Canadian politician and diplomat Frank McKenna, the Deputy Chair TD Bank Group.

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McKenna, a former Canadian ambassador to the U.S., was also a major Clinton Foundation donor, and was featured in the book, ‘Clinton Cash.’ McKenna touched on hot topics and blasts from the past, but rarely challenged his subjects.

‘It seems almost offensive to ask you but why does Putin hate you so much?’ he asked the former first lady. ‘You seem like a very nice person,’ he quipped.

‘I think he saw me as someone who had stood up to him and would stand up to him,’ Clinton responded.

Bill Clinton said the U.S. had ‘compromised’ its moral leadership in the world under Trump, and defended his NAFTA free trade agreement.

He said of the recent elections: ‘We got a chance to become a democracy again and reclaim a debate,’ adding that there were Republicans of good will ‘who don’t want to make America a single homogenous authoritarian country. We got a chance to have a debate again now.’

The former president apologized for Trump’s angry clash with Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau during his last trip here, setting off a trade clash, though the U.S., Canada, and Mexico ultimately reached a deal.

‘All the rhetoric was just for consumption, it was just rhetoric. And we did some real damage I’m afraid to our relationship and if we did I ask for your forbearance because we do love you, most of us, in America,’ said Clinton, who inked the NAFTA agreement during his tenure…

Clinton recounted for attentive listeners details of the raid that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden. She described the dramatic crash of a SEAL helicopter, having been asked a question about lessons learned from the failed raid to free the Iranian hostages under President Carter.

‘Apparently the barbed wire was slightly higher than it appeared in the pictures so the helicopter was disabled,’ Clinton said, after describing how the U.S. produced models to prepare for the raid.

‘In order to leave they had to blow up the helicopter,’ she said, noting that it had ‘advanced technical abilities we did not want falling into the wrong hands.’

Clinton blasted Trump for going after former special forces commander Adm. William McRaven, who oversaw the raid, following McRaven’s criticism of the president.

‘it just absolutely dumfounds me. I’ve never ever imagined that you would have a president personally attacking people who’ve put their lives on the line year after year after year, for no cause,’ Hillary Clinton said.

The Clintons launched their paid 13-city speaking tour in Toronto in an ice hockey arena Tuesday night.

Organizers blocked off the upper deck of seats. Officials said the Clintons sold about 3,300 seats in a venue that can hold about 19,000 for a big hockey game when the Maple Leafs play.

There were still plenty of tickets available 30 minutes before showtime, and a secondary market appeared to be dropping.

The cheapest ticket available on Stubhub was going for $6.55 Canadian, or less than $5.

On the official site, there were still seats up front on the floor available for $325, with other floor seats going for $83 plus a hefty service charge.

Officials told DailyMail.com organizers were expecting 3,300 people, with about 1,000 buying up close seats on the floor.

Live Nation, which is promoting the event, described it as a ‘one-of-a-kind conversations with the two leaders as they tell their stories from some of the most impactful moments in modern history.’