Perhaps rattled by the maelstrom surrounding Robert Mueller’s congressional testimony, which has included a renewed effort by Democrats to come to a consensus on impeachment, Donald Trump on Friday afternoon employed a classic deflection strategy. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, the president attempted to direct the conversation to Barack and Michelle Obama, suggesting an investigation into the Obamas’ 2017 book deal would be a better use of Congress’ powers of oversight, and blaming his predecessor for the White House’s faulty air conditioning for good measure.

“All they want to do is impede. They want to investigate,” Trump said of Democrats seeking to unseal Mueller’s grand jury materials after Wednesday’s hearing. “They want to go fishing. And I watched Bob Mueller, and they have nothing. There’s no collusion there’s no obstruction they have nothing. It’s a disgrace.” From there, Trump pivoted to the Obamas’ 2017 book deal with Penguin Random House, which reportedly paid Barack and Michelle Obama upwards of $65 million to release their respective memoirs over the next few years (Barack’s is expected in 2020).

“We want to find out what happened with the last Democrat president,” Trump said. “Let’s look into Obama the way they’ve looked at me. From day one they’ve looked into everything that we’ve done. They could look into the book deal that president Obama made. Let’s subpoena all of his records.” Trump likewise called for renewed scrutiny of Hillary Clinton and her family’s namesake foundation. And he directed the press’ attention to a new misdeed: the Obama family, he claimed, clearly installed a faulty White House air conditioning system to mess with Trump—a diabolical scheme that has apparently vexed him since he moved to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in 2017.

“It’s never a vacation,” Trump claimed of his impending trip to Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, adding that he sometimes has White House maintenance work done in his absence. “The Obama administration worked out a brand new air conditioning system for the West Wing. It was so good before they did the system. Now that they did this system, it’s freezing or hot.”