President Donald Trump blasted the father of one of the three UCLA college basketball players recently detained in China, saying that he “is unaccepting of what I did for his son” in a tweet Sunday.

LiAngelo Ball, Cody Riley and Jalen Hill were arrested in China and accused of shoplifting when the UCLA basketball team visited the country for a season-opening game. While the rest of the team returned to the United States, Chinese authorities detained the three players. While visiting China as part of his five-nation tour across Asia earlier in November, Trump interceded with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the players’ behalf. On Tuesday, they were allowed to return to the U.S.

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As the younger brother of Los Angeles Lakers star Lonzo Ball, LiAngelo Ball was the most high-profile of the three detained players. During a press conference Wednesday, the younger Ball thanked the president for his help.

“I’d also like to thank President Trump and the United States government for the help that they provided as well,” LiAngelo Ball had said. “I’m grateful to be back home, and I’ll never make a mistake like this again. I’m extremely sorry for those who I let down, but I’m also very thankful for all the help, love and support that they provided. And I take full responsibility for my actions. And I’m sorry.”

The other two players each thanked Trump as well.

“And thank you to the United States government and President Trump for your efforts of bringing us home,” Hill had said.

For his own part, Riley had said, “To President Trump and the United States government, thank you for taking the time to intervene on our behalf. We really appreciate you helping us out.”

Although LiAngelo Ball publicly expressed nothing but gratitude for Trump’s intercession, his father, LaVar Ball, spurned Trump. When ESPN asked LaVar Ball on Friday about Trump’s help with his son’s detention in China, the father replied, “Who?”

“What was [Trump] over there for? Don’t tell me nothing. Everybody wants to make it seem like he helped me out,” said LaVar Ball, an outspoken former basketball and football player and the CEO of sports apparel company Big Baller Brand.

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“As long as my boy’s back here, I’m fine,” LaVar Ball added. “I’m happy with how things were handled. A lot of people like to say a lot of things that they thought happened over there. Like I told him, ‘They try to make a big deal out of nothing sometimes.’ I’m from L.A. I’ve seen a lot worse things happen than a guy taking some glasses.”

The president did not take kindly to LaVar Ball’s dismissal.

“Now that the three basketball players are out of China and saved from years in jail, LaVar Ball, the father of LiAngelo, is unaccepting of what I did for his son and that shoplifting is no big deal. I should have left them in jail!” Trump tweeted Sunday.

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