'Fuck you, LeBron:' Kyle Rittenhouse hits out at LeBron James for commenting on him crying during his trial

• Kyle Rittenhouse hit out at LeBron James after James mocked him for crying on the stand at his murder trial.
• Rittenhouse said that he was a fan of James until the Lakers star criticized him.

Kyle Rittenhouse called out LeBron James this week in response to a Twitter post the Lakers star made mocking him during his murder trial.

Rittenhouse was on trial for fatally shooting Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber and injuring Gaige Grosskreutz at a Black Lives Matter protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year. He was acquitted of five felony charges, including first-degree intentional homicide, in November.

That same month, James posted a tweet responding to a video of Rittenhouse bursting into tears on the stand during his trial.

"What tears????? I didn't see one. Man knock it off! That boy ate some lemon heads before walking into court," James tweeted.

On Tuesday's episode of The Blaze TV's "You Are Here" podcast, 18-year-old Rittenhouse said he was a Lakers fan until James tweeted about him.

"I was a Lakers fan, too, before he said that," Rittenhouse said. "I was really pissed off that he said that 'cause I like LeBron, and then I'm like, 'You know what, fuck you, LeBron.'"

Representatives for James did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider.

Rittenhouse has appeared on various podcasts to discuss the trial following his acquittal. In November, Fox News host Tucker Carlson interviewed him, and he met with former President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. Rittenhouse also became the subject of QAnon ire after publicly criticizing his former lawyer Lin Wood. He said he fired Wood over his QAnon beliefs and election-fraud conspiracy theories.