Former President Donald Trump went after The New York Times on Friday as he ripped the papers coverage of a wild helicopter story that hed told at a rambling press conference.

The Republican presidential nominee, in the presser Thursday, had said that he once went down in a helicopter with Willie Brown, a former San Francisco mayor, amid an emergency landing.

Brown has since disputed the claim, describing Trumps story as obviously wrong . He told CNN that such an episode with Trump never happened, period.

And I think my memory is probably better than his, Brown said.

Nate Holden, a former Los Angeles City Council member, told Politico that he thinks the former president confused him with Brown in the story.

Trump in what the Times Maggie Haberman described as an angry phone call excoriated the paper for its reporting on the press conference and insisted that Brown was the one in the helicopter.

We have the flight records of the helicopter, said Trump, adding that the aircraft landed in a field and that he was probably going to sue over the Times coverage.

Haberman reported that Trump used a sing-song voice to mock the Times request for the helicopter flight records.

The call reportedly came as Trumps plane was diverted due to a mechanical issue before landing safely while on his way to a Friday campaign rally in Bozeman, Montana.