Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer blamed the unruly crowd for his rude welcome at President Trump’s inauguration Friday.

Schumer said he was trying to make a unifying speech at the inauguration when the crowd on the National Mall broke out with boos and chants of “We want Trump!”

“The fact that people didn’t like it speaks poorly of them, not of what I said in the speech,” Schumer told CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Schumer opened his speech addressing the insecurity felt by many Americans – and those in his party: “We live in a challenging and tumultuous time.”

When he pivoted to his belief that democracy and the American people will prevail, he was already met by boos.

“Whatever our race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity; whether we are immigrant or native-born; whether we live with disabilities or do not; in wealth or in poverty; we are all exceptional in our commonly held yet fierce devotion to our country,” Schumer said in his five-minute address that proceeded Trump’s address.

The Democratic leader insisted the message wouldn’t have gotten booed if Trump wasn’t the new commander-in-chief.

“That speech — given with any other president, with any other audience, would have been cheered,” Schumer said. “It’s not controversial language to say we’re all Americans. It’s not controversial language to reach out to others who might not be exactly like you.”

He added: Trump “ought to lead. When his followers do things like that, he ought to speak positively about being inclusive and being American.”

Schumer said it was Trump with the gloomy message Friday — not him.

“The American people are a sunny, optimistic people, and [Trump’s inaugural] address was full of doom and gloom,” Schumer said Sunday at his weekly press conference.