Colorado Democratic Gov. Jared Polis said Friday’s public squabble between Maine’s Democratic Governor and President Trump during a White House gathering of America’s state leaders failed to live up to the National Governors Association’s goal of “disagree[ing] better.”

“We always hope that people can disagree in a way that elevates the discourse and tries to come to a common solution around what the issue is,” Polis told Fox News. “I don’t think that that disagreement is necessarily a model of that.”

Trump said during Friday’s meeting that states that fail to adhere to his order banning trans atletes in women’s sports risk losing federal funding. Trump referenced Maine as an example of such a state.

“See you in court,” Maine Gov. Janet Mills responded, with Trump telling her, “I look forward to that. That should be a real easy one.”

“It was a little uncomfortable in the room,” explained Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt to Fox News, when asked about the bitter back-and-forth between Trump and Mills over her state’s compliance with the president’s executive order barring transgender athletes in school sports.

“I wasn’t sure exactly what the backstory was behind the conflict there,” Stitt continued. “Apparently, there had been some things that both sides have said.”

Stitt acknowledged governors have every right to sue the federal government, and noted the unpleasantness may have been “good politics” for both Mills and Trump with their respective bases. 

“The NCAA has followed that, I think the Olympics have. And then you have a governor saying that they’re not going to follow that,” said Stitt. “So, I don’t know what legal background she has, but they talked about seeing each other in court. And we’ll, we’ll see what happens on it.”

At the same White House meeting, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey asked for cabinet officials’ direct lines, to better facilitate cooperation between states and Trump’s administration.