Onetime presidential hopeful, former Gov. John Kasich confessed Thursday that the GOP’s nomination of former President Donald Trump brought him to tears in 2016.

“I was really hoping that we were gonna block him and that people were gonna come to their senses,” the Ohio Republican told guest Julie Bowen on the “Kasich & Klepper” podcast with “The Daily Show” correspondent Jordan Klepper. “But when it was over, we got off the plane… I went behind this building, and I cried. I had one cry.”

In this lightening-fast-paced world, life pre-President Trump feels to many like a lifetime ago, but if you dig back in your memory bank, you’ll recall that the run-up to the 2016 elections featured what was, at that time, the largest presidential primary field in American history, with 17 major candidates vying for the Republican Party’s nomination.