Donald Trump accused NBC News Lester Holt of favoring Hillary Clinton in Monday nights presidential debate.

Steve Doocy, a co-host of Fox News Fox and Friends, asked Trump in a phone interview on Tuesday morning whether the GOP nominee thought Holt leaned a little bit over into the left lane to compensate for criticism that Holts colleague Matt Lauer endured for his moderation of NBCs Commander-in-Chief Forum earlier this month.

Yeah totally. More than a little, Trump responded. He leaned over to that lane.

Trumps critique was an abrupt reversal from his positive review of Holt in the post-debate spin room on Monday night, when he said he thought Holt did a great job and his questions were very fair.

Later on Fox and Friends, when asked to grade Holts performance, Trump gave him a C or C+.

I thought he was OK. I thought he was fine, Trump said. He gave me very unfair questions at the end.

But you know Im not complaining about that, the real estate mogul added.

The unfair questions Trump may be referring to were Holts questions for Trump about his birther claims and support for the Iraq War.

In both cases, Holt called out Trumps lies in advance. He called the questions Trump raised about President Barack Obama s birthplace false claims and noted in his question about the Iraq War that Trump had supported the war when it began. Holt then followed up to reiterate contradictions with Trumps past statements.

Trump also noted on Fox and Friends that he liked the moderator earlier in the debate: I thought Lester was really good for the half, because he was bringing up general and main subjects that were important. Things like the economy.

This post has been updated with additional comment from Trump on Fox and Friends as well as from the post-debate spin room.

Editors note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar , rampant xenophobe , racist , misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims 1.6 billion members of an entire religion from entering the U.S.