Trump falsely calls his interview with The Sun fake news. There's a recording. You can listen to it.

President Trump denied criticizing British Prime Minister Theresa May when taking questions from the press Friday, despite there being easily accessible audio of his scathing interview with British tabloid The Sun. "I didn't criticize the prime minister," Trump falsely claimed. "I have a lot of respect for the prime minister. And unfortunately there was a story that was done, which was generally fine, but it didn't put in what I said about the prime minister, and I said tremendous things."

Trump then appeared to contradict himself by saying "fortunately we tend to record stories now, so we have it for your enjoyment," adding "it's called fake news," although it isn't clear how an audio recording of his interview could be fake news.

In his interview with The Sun, Trump slammed May over her "soft" Brexit plan, which has put May's standing as the head of the Conservative Party in jeopardy. "I actually told Theresa May how to do [Brexit], but she didn't listen to me," Trump said in the Sun interview, and then mused that May's Conservative Party rival, Boris Johnson, "would be a great prime minister."

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Later in the press conference, Trump slammed reporter Kristen Welker after a question about Russia. "Of course that's coming from NBC, which is possibly worse than CNN," he said, adding that her question was "dishonest reporting." In denying a query from CNN anchor Jim Acosta, Trump said that "CNN is fake news. I don't take questions from CNN," and then called on "John Roberts of Fox. Let's go to a real network."

Watch Trump's response about May below, and listen to the "fake news" audio here. Jeva Lange