Why does Pliny say that Nero deified Claudius to ridicule him?

by BeginnerInLatin

Being deified doesn't seem like a very scathing mockery to me. I'm talking about Pliny the Younger's Panegyricus to Trajan, 11.3 and 11.4.

BeginnerInLatin

The passage in question is this: Quem tu lacrimis primum, ita ut filium decuit, mox templis honestasti non imitatus illos, qui hoc idem, sed alia mente fecerunt. dicavit caelo Tiberius Augustum, sed ut maiestatis crimen induceret, Claudium Nero, sed ut irrideret

I was trying to put that last part in bold, but I can't figure it out. Sorry