Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump attacked the media as “dishonest” Tuesday, calling one journalist a “sleaze” and another a “loser” for their coverage of the charity event he ran when he skipped a Fox News debate in January. 

After controversy reigned over Fox‘s bias, Trump instead ran an event for veterans’ charities which he stated recently raised some $5.6 million in one night. 

But after several members of the press, including ABC News‘s Tom Llamas and editor of the Weekly Standard Bill Kristol, questioned that figure, Trump went on the defensive. 

“The press should be ashamed,” he said. “I have never received such bad publicity for doing such a good job.” 

“I think the political press is among the most dishonest people that I have ever met,” he added.

Trump then pointed at Llamas, saying “you’re a sleaze because you know the facts and you know the facts well”; he also called Kristol a “loser.”

Trump has built a reputation for being thin-skinned – particularly about his hands, which many have said are small. Trump’s indignation over his “tiny fingers” has gained so much media attention, it even garnered a spot on John Oliver’s hugely popular Last Week Tonight. 

But he waved off his tendency to react to the pressure Tuesday, stating he was justified in letting the press get under his skin. 

“I think it’s bothersome,” he insisted. “I have given a lot of money… and I think when the press portrays it differently, the press is being very dishonest, so I don’t like that.”