Donald Trump expressing displeasure with the media is about as predictable as ice cream melting in July, but Wednesday morning he took it a step further with a threat to the First Amendment.

It shouldn’t come as a surprise, but Trump was apparently inspired to fire off that tweet after watching a segment on his favorite news outlet.

 The Washington Post reports that tweet came shortly after “the anchors on ‘Fox & Friends’ on Fox News discussed a study by the Media Research Center study citing that figure after evaluating the nightly newscasts on ABC, CBS and NBC between January and April.”

Keep in mind the Media Research Center is a conservative site run by Brent Bozell, who Wednesday agreed that suppressing the press is a good idea. Bozell tweeted:

“Trump is again threatening to remove WH credentials for the 90% anti-Trump media. At this point, why the hell not? They’re not journalists. They’re left wing activists with laptops.”

As for Trump’s threat (in the form of a question), it is in direct contrast to an interview Trump gave to Time magazine back in 2015:

“TIME: Could you assure that even news outlets that you feel are being very unfair to you will continue to have their credentials at the White House if you’re elected President?

TRUMP: Oh yeah, I would do that. It doesn’t mean I’d be nice to them. I tend to do what I do. If people aren’t treating me right, I don’t treat them right.”

But CNN points out since taking office Trump has often mentioned cracking down on the media:

“In private, Trump sometimes grumbles about the press and grasps for possible penalties, like revoking credentials, according to the people familiar with his comments.

At times, the people said, Trump names individual reporters whose coverage he doesn’t like and feels is unfair to him, but more often he talks about blocking specific television networks or other outlets.”

Margaret Talev, President of the White House Correspondents’ Association released a statement reacting to the President’s threat saying:

“Some may excuse the president’s inflammatory rhetoric about the media, but just because the president does not like news coverage does not make it fake. A free press must be able to report on the good, the bad, the momentous and the mundane, without fear or favor. And a president preventing a free and independent press from covering the workings of our republic would be an unconscionable assault on the First Amendment.”

This issue is even causing some conservatives to voice their concerns.

As our own Dan Rather said when Trump attacked the press back in November 2016:

“Donald Trump should perhaps step away from his phone and pick up a copy of the United States Constitution. The First Amendment protects ‘freedom of speech… the press…and the right of the people peaceably to assemble.'”

Meanwhile, Trump’s tweet isn’t just raising eyebrows for the obvious reasons, another interesting element is Trump’s admission that he categorizes any negative news about himself as “fake.” Vox reports:

“It’s nice of Trump to admit, explicitly, what many skeptics have suspected all along: When he complains about ‘fake news,’ he doesn’t actually mean ‘news that is untrue’; he means news that is personally inconvenient to Donald Trump.

The Media Research Center didn’t say 91 percent of Trump coverage was fake. Trump himself conveniently drew the connection.

And having conflated ‘negative’ with ‘Fake,’ he proceeded to float the idea of punishing the press for its perceived transgressions.”