President Donald Trump lashed out at the media over coverage of Air Force refueling planes allegedly hit by an Iranian missile attack on a Saudi Arabian air base.

“The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal (in particular), and other low-life ‘newspapers’ and outlets actually want us to lose the war,” Trump wrote Saturday morning on Truth Social. “Your terrible reports are the exact opposite of the real facts!”

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President Donald Trump called the media “sick and insane” for a report that didn’t differ much from his own version of events.

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The president’s post took aim at what he called an “intentionally misleading fake news media headline” about the plane.

“Actually, the Base was attacked a few days ago, but the planes were not ‘hit’ or ‘destroyed,’” he wrote.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that Iran had “hit and damaged” five tankers at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, citing US officials. Notably, the Journal did not claim that the planes were destroyed, but in fact wrote that the planes were “damaged but not completely destroyed” and were “being repaired.”

On Truth Social, Trump said that four of the planes were “virtually undamaged” and that the fifth had “slightly more damage” but would “be back in the air shortly.”

He then called members of the media “truly sick and demented people” who “have no idea the damage they cause to the United States of America.”