A top White House spokesman once called his boss, President Donald Trump, “a deplorable” and admitted feeling a degree of schadenfreude when the Washington Post released the so-called “Access Hollywood” tape in October 2016, New York magazine reported Monday.

White House principal deputy press secretary Raj Shah made the comments when he worked for the Republican National Committee as its research director and deputy communications director.

A few hours after The Washington Post released the “Access Hollywood” tape on Oct. 7, 2016, on which Trump is heard making crass remarks about women, Shah sent a series of messages to Andrew Hemming, a senior researcher at the RNC at the time.

“u wanna hear something a little f–ked up?” Shah wrote at 10:57 p.m.

“Sure,” Hemming replied.