Previewing the address he will deliver before a joint session of Congress tonight, President Donald Trump set the tone for his speech with a telling interview Tuesday morning with the hosts of Fox and Friends. “I think I’ve done a lot of great things,” he bragged, giving himself an “A” grade for his presidency so far, though he conceded his messaging was more of “a C or a C-plus.”

But while Trump insisted the state of the union was strong, he signaled little interest in unity. Still smarting from losing the popular vote, and further stung by his unprecedented unpopularity, Trump lashed out at his critics during the early-morning interview, accusing his enemies of conspiring against him.

Asked by the hosts of Fox and Friends whether his predecessor, Barack Obama, might be behind some of the protests that have taken place nationwide in opposition to his presidency, Trump agreed. “I think he is behind it,” he said, accusing Obama of helping orchestrate staged demonstrations via, presumably, Organizing for Action, the second iteration of his campaign grassroots group Obama for America. “I also think it’s politics. That’s the way it is.”

“And look,” he added. “I have a very thick skin.”

O.F.A., as it is known, has been operating independently of Obama himself, who has largely abided by the unwritten rule that former presidents do not comment on the activities of their successors. Besides issuing a brief statement disagreeing with Trump’s immigration ban, the former president has mostly stayed out of the headlines since Inauguration Day.

But where others see grassroots political opposition to the president’s policies, Trump sees conspiracy. “I think that President Obama is behind it because his people certainly are behind it. And in some of the leaks possibly comes from that group,” he added, suggesting that unflattering stories about his administration are coming from Obama-era appointees and hires. “In terms of him being behind things, that’s politics. It will probably continue.”

While a president’s first speech before Congress is, like an inaugural address, usually seen as an opportunity to marshal bipartisan support, Trump spent the morning before his prime-time speech inveighing against enemies both inside and outside his White House. When asked about recent reports that press secretary Sean Spicer had attempted to crack down on leaks by seizing his staffers work and personal phones, Trump said that he would have done it differently. Perhaps, he said, by having “one-on-one sessions” with suspected staffers, implicitly criticizing as amateurish the response by Spicer, who called an emergency meeting and had his employees dump their phones on the table to conduct a “phone check.” (That incident, naturally, was quickly leaked to the press, too.)

Still, the president insisted that he was unaffected by the swirl of controversy surrounding him. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who recently quipped that Trump had accomplished nothing in his first month, is “incompetent, actually,” he said. Criticism of his policies, he insisted, was merely poor messaging—presumably by his staff—rather than a problem with the policies themselves. And polls showing that he is historically unpopular, he argued, are misleading. “The love is great,” he said, suggesting that his supporters are more fervent than the opposition. “And I saw a poll where I was at 45 or 46 percent, but one of the things they said is that the level of enthusiasm for me is as strong as they’ve ever seen.”