John McCain may be dead, but Donald Trump’s hatred for the man is very much alive. Apparently undeterred by the outrage that followed his weekend drubbing of the late Republican senator, President Trump doubled down Wednesday by enumerating his many grievances with the Republican war hero who famously thwarted his bill to repeal Obamacare. “I have to be honest, I’ve never liked him much. Hasn’t been for me. I really probably never will,” Trump announced during a speech at the Lima Army Tank Plant in Ohio, going on to talk for more than two minutes about exactly why he harbors those feelings, a full seven months after McCain’s death.

Turning over the Steele dossier to the F.B.I. was “not the nicest thing to do,” Trump said, especially because McCain hadn’t even called him first. Giving the “thumbs-down” to the Republican health-care plan, he suggested, poured salt in the wound. “He said two hours before he was voting to repeal and replace, and then he voted thumbs-down, badly hurting the Republican Party, badly hurting our nation and hurting many sick people who desperately wanted good affordable health care,” Trump rambled. He also said that McCain, who spent six years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam and devoted much of his legislative career to working on veterans’ issues, “didn’t get the job done for our great vets and the V.A., and they knew it.“

After bashing McCain for his vote on the Iraq War (“he was calling Bush all the time ‘Get into the Middle East, get into the Middle East’”), Trump got more personal. “I gave him the kind of funeral that he wanted, which as president I had to approve,” he complained, referring to reports that McCain did not want Trump to attend the service. “I don’t care about this, I didn’t get a thank-you. That’s O.K. We sent him on the way, but I wasn’t a fan of John McCain.“

Trump’s long-standing grudge against McCain was reignited over the weekend when former independent prosecutor Ken Starr appeared on Fox News to respond to conservative reports that a McCain aide was responsible for pushing the Steele dossier to the media and the F.B.I. “Spreading the fake and totally discredited Dossier ‘is unfortunately a very dark stain against John McCain,’” Trump tweeted, quoting Starr. “He had far worse ‘stains’ than this, including thumbs-down on repeal and replace after years of campaigning to repeal and replace!” He went on to call McCain “last in his class (Annapolis)”, and when Meghan McCain struck back with a tweet saying, “No one will ever love you the way they loved my father,” and suggesting he spend more time with his family “instead of on Twitter obsessing over mine,” Trump re-tweeted a follower who praised him: “WRONG Meghan! Millions of Americans truly LOVE President Trump, not McCain. I’m one!”

He kept up the tirade during a press conference with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday, telling reporters in response to questions about his tweets that he was still “very unhappy” about McCain’s “no” vote on repealing Obamacare. “Plus, there are other things,” he added, suggestively. “I was never a fan of John McCain, and I never will be.” This first round of remarks prompted a muted outcry on the right, including from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who went so far as to gently subtweet the president. Yet judging by his monologue Wednesday, this finger-wagging had no effect.