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President Trump railed against MSNBC prime-time host Lawrence O’Donnell after the anchor was forced to issue an on-air apology and retraction for a story he pushed connecting the president to Russia.

O’Donnell reported on a single-sourced unverified claim during his show Tuesday night. The report alleged that the Deutsche Bank had the president’s “loan documents” and those papers reveal that the president had co-signers for said loans and they are “Russian billionaires close to Vladimir Putin.”

Trump called O’Donnell out in a Twitter thread Thursday morning, the day after O’Donnell retracted the story.

“Crazy Lawrence O’Donnell, who has been calling me wrong from even before I announced my run for the Presidency, even being previously forced by NBC to apologize, which he did while crying, for things he said about me & The Apprentice, was again forced to apologize, this time …,” the president tweeted. “For the most ridiculous claim of all, that Russia, Russia, Russia, or Russian oligarchs, co-signed loan documents for me, a guarantee. Totally false, as is virtually everything else he, and much of the rest of the LameStream Media, has said about me for years. ALL APOLOGIZE!”

Trump added, “The totally inaccurate reporting by Lawrence O’Donnell, for which he has been forced by NBC to apologize, is NO DIFFERENT than the horrible, corrupt and fraudulent Fake News that I (and many millions of GREAT supporters) have had to put up with for years. So bad for the USA!”

After running with the report on Tuesday, O’Donnell faced strong backlash for running with such a thinly-sourced report a day later. The president’s lawyers sent a letter to O’Donnell and MSNBC demanding a retraction and an apology alleging that they published “false and defamatory” statements, which were “extremely damaging.”

The MSNBC host obliged on Twitter later Wednesday afternoon, saying that he made “an error in judgment by reporting an item about the president’s finances that didn’t go through our rigorous verification and standards process.” He reiterated that sentiment when he opened his show that night saying that he is in fact “retracting the story” and processed to “apologize.”