(CNN) President Donald Trump lashed out at California Gov. Jerry Brown on Saturday morning, continuing a longstanding feud between his administration and the Golden State over immigration.

"Governor Jerry 'Moonbeam' Brown pardoned 5 criminal illegal aliens whose crimes include (1) Kidnapping and Robbery (2) Badly beating wife and threatening a crime with intent to terrorize (3) Dealing drugs. Is this really what the great people of California want?," the President tweeted , along with a tag to Fox News.

The "Moonbeam" reference is not one of Trump's oft-used original diminutives, but rather dates back to the 1970s. It was coined by well-known Chicago newspaper columnist Mike Royko because of Brown's then-new age ideas on topics like energy and weather satellites and eventually stuck, as described by The New York Times.

On Friday, the Democratic governor granted 56 pardons and 14 commutations.

Five of those pardons went to immigrants facing possible deportation, according to The Sacramento Bee : Sokha Chhan, Daniel Maher, Phann Pheach, Francisco Acevedo Alaniz and Sergio Mena.