Somehow avoiding total humiliation and calls to withdraw from the presidential race after being caught bragging about sexually assaulting women, Donald Trump decided to not just attack Hillary Clinton in Sunday’s debate; he attacked the moderators, too.

Throughout Sunday’s town-hall-style debate, Trump claimed that the moderators, Martha Raddatz and Anderson Cooper, were turning it into a “one on three” fight against him, as they kept telling him to stop interrupting Clinton, and stop running over his time in order to move on. (Trump and Clinton managed to speak for an almost identical amount of time.)

“Why don’t you interrupt her?” Trump asked Raddatz at one point. “You interrupt me all the time.” Later, as the topic turned to a different subject, Trump went back to attacking the moderators. “You know it’s funny she went over a minute over, you don’t stop her,” Trump complained over Raddatz’s protestations that Trump had interrupted several times. “When I go one second over . . . It’s really very interesting.”

By Monday morning, the below ad was running on Trump’s YouTube page, and the conservative-media echo chamber had fallen in line, too. Breitbart counted that the moderators interrupted Trump 26 times as opposed to Clinton’s 12. (Trump’s campaign chief, Steve Bannon, is currently on leave from Breitbart, which he also runs.) The Drudge Report linked directly to Trump’s ad under the headline “Moderators gone wild.”

Kyle Smith of The New York Post agreed, and labeled Cooper and Raddatz privileged celebrities who had turned a town-hall debate—one where the audience members ostensibly were the ones who drove the question-and-answer period—into a showcase for their own abilities. “Bizarrely, the people were interested in substantive policy questions rather than in doing what the moderators wanted them to do, which was to make like Tom Cruise grilling Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men,” he wrote.

It was an unexpected way for Trump to flip one of the greatest criticisms from his last debate—that he interrupted too much—into a plus for his campaign, playing into the distrust that many of his voters have for the mainstream media.

A CNN/YouGov snap poll taken immediately after the debate found Clinton the winner, with 47 percent going with Clinton, and 42 percent with Trump. The defiant Republican nominee, who promises that he’s staying in the race, seemed to use Sunday as an attempt to keep those who loved him by his side, no matter if—or, at this point, how badly—he loses in November.

Correction: a previous version of this article erroneously identified Kyle Smith’s position at the New York Post. The text has been corrected above.

For more Hive coverage of the second presidential debate, read T.A. Frank’s look at Trump reveling in historic lows, watch Trump hover over Clinton’s shoulder, defend his Muslim ban and break with his own running mate, find out how the candidates answered the night’s final question, and get the scoop on Melania Trump’s interesting sartorial choice.