President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media following a briefing on Hurricane Florence in the Oval Office at the White House September 11, 2018 in Washington, DC.

President Donald Trump on Thursday rejected the official death toll from hurricanes that struck Puerto Rico last fall — and without evidence blamed Democrats for grossly inflating that tally.

Trump claimed Democrats tried to "make me look as bad as possible" by boosting the number of people who died in the wake of the storms "when I was successfully raising Billions of dollars to help rebuild Puerto Rico."

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Trump's two-tweet volley came two days after the president drew heavy criticism for claiming that his administration's response to the 2017 hurricanes was "an incredible unsung success."

In August, the Puerto Rican government raised the official death count dramatically to 2,975, after maintaining for months that only 64 people had died as a result of Hurricanes Maria and Irma.