CNN’s Media correspondent Brian Stelter is being accused of holding a “double standard” after President Joe Biden called Fox News’ Peter Doocy a “stupid son of a b****.”

Social Media users resurfaced a 2018 tweet from Stelter blasting former President Donald Trump after he called a reporter a “son of a b****.”

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On Monday, Doocy asked Biden, “Will you take questions on inflation? Do you think inflation is a political liability in the midterms?”

“It’s a great asset,” Biden said with an apparent sarcastic tone. He added, “What a stupid son of a b****.”

Hours later, Doocy said that the president “called my cellphone and he said, ‘It’s nothing personal pal.’” He added that Biden “cleared the air,” and it was a “nice call.”

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“I don’t need anybody to apologize to me. He can call me whatever he wants as long as it gets him talking,” Doocy said.

Stelter later tweeted, “This is from 2018. It’s still true. Biden was wrong to call Doocy an SOB. The press is right to hold presidents to high standards. Biden doesn’t berate the Media like Trump, so the context for today is different, but it’s still out of line.”

He also re-tweeted Politico’s Josh Gerstein, who argued Biden’s quip was different than Trump’s “dealings with the press.”

Additionally, he shared a story about Doocy’s father, Steve Doocy, saying his son “took no offense to the insult.”

During an appearance on CNN on Tuesday morning, Stelter noted, “You see the smile on Biden’s face.”

“I don’t think he’s surprised this was caught on mic. I think he knows what he was doing,” he continued.

Finally, Stelter said, “No matter who the president is, whether it was Donald Trump saying Chuck Todd was an S.O.B. or whether it’s President Biden saying…Peter Doocy is an S.O.B., it’s wrong. No matter what.”

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“Presidents should be held to the highest standards. And so, in this case, Biden was out of line. I think he knew it because he called Doocy right away to say sorry and try to play as water under the bridge. It’s also not the biggest story in the world,” he added.

Last week, Biden dismissed a question from Fox News’ Jacqui Heinrich as “stupid.”