Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign slogan is code for moving white Southerners up the economic scale, and others down it, according to former U.S. President Bill Clinton. The curious thing is that Clinton himself used the term repeatedly while campaigning for president 25 years ago, and then again more recently.

“I’m actually old enough to remember the good old days, and they weren’t all that good in many ways,” Clinton told a supportive crowd. “That message where ‘I’ll give you America great again’ is if you’re a white Southerner, you know exactly what it means, don’t you?”

“What it means is ‘I’ll give you an economy you had 50 years ago, and I’ll move you back up on the social totem pole and other people down,’” he said.

But then Fox News did some digging. It noted Clinton’s accusation against Trump, and then created a video montage showing Clinton using the term “Make America Great Again” when launching his successful first bid for president 25 years ago. Clinton also used it in an ad for his wife — then-Senator Hillary Clinton, now the Democratic presidential nominee — in 2008.

Republicans are frequently accused of racism and bigotry for their policies. Trump has faced this charge more frequently than most, as he has made many derogatory comments about illegal immigrants from Mexico and proposed a ban on all Muslim immigrants. Trump has retreated from the full ban, and has predicted that a sizable percentage of Hispanic voters will back his candidacy in November even though polls aren’t yet reflecting this.

Trump also is reaching out to black Americans, noting that despite decades of party loyalty to Democrats, their demographic in the U.S. suffers from high unemployment, high homicide rates in the inner city, and other challenges. And he blames wrongheaded Democratic policies.