Steve Bannon, the former White House chief strategist, claimed the black civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. “would be proud” of President Donald Trump.

Bannon, whose relationship with Trump soured after he left the White House in August 2017 during a politically rocky period, made the comments to the U.K.’s BBC Newsnight program in an interview set to air Wednesday night in Britain.

“Donald Trump has the lowest black unemployment in history,” Bannon said. “Donald Trump has the lowest hispanic unemployment in 25 years.