Days after Donald Trump was elected president, Dave Chappelle made his much-anticipated appearance hosting Saturday Night Live. Over 8 million people watched as Chappelle spent over 11 minutes on his monologue, commenting on everything from Harambe to Black Lives Matter, but it was his parting thoughts on Donald Trump that surprised viewers the most. After describing the hope he felt on a recent visit to the White House alongside other black, "historically disenfranchised" artists, he told the audience, “I’m wishing Donald Trump luck. And I’m going to give him a chance, and we, the historically disenfranchised, demand that he give us one too. Thank you very much.”

Six months later, Chappelle is taking it back. During his set at the Robin Hood Gala in New York on Monday, he offered up an apology for those choice words during his monologue, according to NBC’s Willie Geist, who was in the audience. “I was the first guy on TV to say ‘Give Trump a chance,’” he told the crowd. “I f—ed up. Sorry.”

It was only a few weeks ago in April that Chappelle defended those same remarks in a profile for T: The New York Times Style Magazine. He disagreed with critics who accused him of going soft on Trump back in November. “I said we demand he gives us a chance,” he said. “I didn’t softball ’em. Welcome to the world, this is how it goes—tyranny of the majority, or tyranny of the minority in this case,” adding, “I feel like a lot of people in America understand what the political process felt like for disenfranchised people.”