President Trump blasted the NFL in a tweet Wednesday after a report said the league is considering keeping players in the locker room during the national anthem next year if protests continue through the rest of this season, saying that’s “almost as bad as kneeling.”

“The NFL is now thinking about a new idea – keeping teams in the Locker Room during the National Anthem next season. That’s almost as bad as kneeling!,” Trump, who’s at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida for the Thanksgiving holiday, posted on Twitter. “When will the highly paid Commissioner finally get tough and smart? This issue is killing your league!”

NFL owners are thinking about reverting to previous policy and keeping players in the locker rooms during the playing of the national anthem, the Washington Post reported Tuesday.

“I think that if players are still kneeling at the end of the year, then it could very well happen,” ​the newspaper quoted a source as saying. The issue could be taken up at the league’s meeting in March.

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Teams and even some owners have taken a knee or stood arm-in-arm after Trump in ​September said players should be fired for protesting during the playing of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

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“​Get that son of a bitch off the field right now, he’s fired. He’s fired​!” Trump said in an Alabama speech.

Although the size of the protests has dwindled since then, a few players are still refusing to stand.

In a game in Mexico City on Sunday, Oakland Raiders running back Marshawn Lynch stood for the Mexican anthem but sat during the US anthem.

Trump lashed out at him on Twitter.

“​Marshawn Lynch of the NFL’s Oakland Raiders stands for the Mexican Anthem and sits down to boos for our National Anthem. Great disrespect!​,” Trump wrote on Monday. “Next time NFL should suspend him for remainder of season. Attendance and ratings way down.​”​

The protests began last season when former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began kneeling during the anthem to call attention to racial inequality.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has said that the league believes “everyone should stand for the national anthem” but would not change its policies to force players to do so.