Former President Donald Trump snubbed his three Supreme Court appointees after praising Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas.

In an interview on the Dan Bongino Show, Trump praised Alito and Thomas after Alito’s recent refusal to recuse himself in Jan. 6-related cases. While refraining from openly bashing his own three Supreme Court picks, Trump was noticeably frostier when mentioning them, calling on them to be “stronger.”

“Alito’s great. Thomas is great,” Trump said. “The three that I put in, I mean, it’s a little early, but, uh … people are starting to warm up to them, I will say this, but they’ve got to be stronger, they’ve got to be tough. Alito’s been very, very tough, very good, and Thomas has been very good.”

“But when I look at the way they’re treated, they play the ref, they try and scare ’em,” he continued. “Look, they’re humans like anybody else. They try and do Bobby Knight and scream, scream, scream.”

In a Truth Social post on Wednesday, Trump called on the other Supreme Court justices to follow Alito’s example.

“Congratulations to United States Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito for showing the INTELLIGENCE, COURAGE, and ‘GUTS’ to refuse stepping aside from making a decision on anything January 6th related,” he said. “All U.S. Judges, Justices, and Leaders should have such GRIT – Our Country would be far more advanced than its current status as A BADLY FAILING NATION, headed by the Worst President in American History, Crooked Joe Biden!”

Thomas has faced calls to recuse himself over his wife’s involvement in “Stop the Steal” activities around the 2020 presidential election. And Democrats have turned their attention to Alito with calls for him to recuse himself for flying two flags over his homes they claim are connected to the Jan. 6 riot.

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One of the cases Democrats want the justices to recuse themselves from is Trump v. United States, in which the court must decide if Trump has any immunity from prosecution in the context of the 2020 election subversion case brought by special counsel Jack Smith.

The other case involves a question of whether hundreds of Jan. 6 riot defendants were wrongfully charged under a long-standing obstruction statute when the certification of President Joe Biden’s electoral victory was briefly interrupted due to the riot.