After a weekend of criticism of President Donald Trump‘s tweeted plan to create a cybersecurity unit in cooperation with Russia, the president posted on Twitter late Sunday U.S. time that he actually didn’t think it would happen.

Donald J. Trump: The fact that President Putin and I discussed a Cyber Security unit doesn’t mean I think it can happen. It can’t-but a ceasefire can,& did!

Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time on Saturday at the G-20 Summit in Germany.

The U.S. president claimed that he had discussed allegations that Russia interfered with the U.S. election last year, including through hacking.

But then Trump said he accepted Putin‘s assurance that Russia didn’t interfere. After the meeting, Trump sent a tweet saying he would work with Russia to create an “impenetrable” cybersecurity unit to keep “election hacking, & many other negative things” protected.

Donald J. Trump: Putin & I discussed forming an impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that election hacking, & many other negative things, will be guarded..

That comment, coming as pundits began referring to the G-20 Summit as the “G-19 plus one” to signal how isolated the U.S. and Trump appeared, was met with “putting the fox in charge of the henhouse” derision — referencing repeated findings by U.S. and foreign intelligence agencies that Russia was involved in wide-scale hacking campaigns.

Donald J. Trump: I strongly pressed President Putin twice about Russian meddling in our election. He vehemently denied it. I’ve already given my opinion…..

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican representing South Carolina, mocked his president’s proposed cybersecurity partnership in a weekend interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

“It’s not the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard, but it’s pretty close,” Graham said.

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Trump on his 'impenetrable' cybersecurity unit with Putin: I didn't mean it