Ahead of Sunday’s big game, President Trump is gaslighting the nation on the field. A wide-ranging interview set to air before the Super Bowl sees Trump claiming both that NFL representatives “have been calling and thanking me” for criminal judicial reform, and that the sport itself is too “dangerous” for his son Barron—despite prior criticisms of the game’s “softer” rules regarding concussions.

In between discussions of declaring a national emergency to fund his border wall and the removal of troops from Afghanistan and Syria, Trump offered a few candid remarks on football itself during a Face the Nation interview with CBS’ Margaret Brennan. Asked if he’d feel comfortable with his youngest son, Barron, playing an aggressive contact sport like football, the president admitted, “I just don’t like the reports that I see coming out having to do with football—I mean, it’s a dangerous sport and I think it’s— I— it’s— really tough.” He’d rather Barron keep to his preferred sport of soccer, given the advancement of NFL helmets “hasn’t solved the problem,” and that NFL players allegedly have steered their own children away from the sport.

That’s a far cry from the Trump of 2016, who repeatedly criticized football as “soft” for referees policing tackles. “Football has become soft like our country has become soft,” Trump said at a Reno, Nevada campaign rally in January of that year. “The outcome of games has been changed by what used to be phenomenal, phenomenal stuff. Now these are rough guys, these are rough guys. These guys — what they’re doing is incredible, but I looked at it and I watched yesterday in particular. So many flags, right? So many flags.”

An October event that same year saw Trump taking aim at the NFL’s game-day concussion protocols, after a woman fainted during his rally. “That woman was out cold, and now she’s coming back,” Trump said to bolster his supporters. “See, we don’t go by these new, and very much softer, NFL rules. Concussions—’Uh oh, got a little ding on the head? No, no, you can’t play for the rest of the season’—our people are tough.”

Barron’s interest in football wasn’t the only NFL stunner from Trump’s interview. The president has repeatedly invoked the flashpoint of players like Colin Kaepernick kneeling during the National Anthem to protest police brutality and racial inequality, and now claims that NFL officials have given him credit for criminal judicial reform.

“I’m the one that had passed judicial reform,” Trump claimed in response to a question about Kaepernick’s protest. “And if you look at what I did, criminal judicial reform, and what I’ve done— President Obama tried. They all tried. Everybody wanted to do it. And I got it done and I’ve been, you know, really- a lot of people in the NFL have been calling and thanking me for it.”

Pressed, Trump admitted that he understood the subject of Kaepernick’s protests, but dislikes the form they took. “A lot of it had to do with [reform], and I took care of that,” he stated. “I think that people have to, at all times, respect our flag and at all times respect our net- our- our national anthem and our country. And I think there are plenty of places and times you can protest and you can do a lot. But you can’t do that. That’s my opinion.”

The full Face the Nation interview will air Sunday, February 3 on CBS, at both 10:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m., though the transcript is already available.