President Trump reportedly condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin for a nuclear weapon propaganda video during a call in which he congratulated Putin on his re-election.

The reported rebuke contrasts with how the phone call was described by the Washington Post, which previously reported that Trump ignored advisers, who urged him in an all-caps note, "DO NOT CONGRATULATE."

Trump's criticism of Putin reportedly focused on a Russian defense ministry video that depicted nuclear warheads targeting Florida.

"If you want to do an arms race you’ll lose," Trump told Putin on the March call, according to a Sunday newsletter report from Axios reporter Jonathan Swan. Trump told Putin the video was "outrageous," according to the report.

The source said that Trump told Putin, "I called up [U.K. Prime Minister] Theresa [May] and [German Chancellor] Angela [Merkel] and they agree with me."

The report comes as Trump prepares to meet with Putin on Monday in Finland. Putin's government is accused of interfering in the 2016 election to help Trump win, and Trump's political opponents have expressed concern about whether he will be firm with Putin.

Swan is among a handful of mainstream reporters to whom Trump feeds information, with instructions to attribute quotes to an unnamed White House official, according to former Post reporter Ronald Kessler, who makes the claim in his book The Trump White House.

Kessler told the Washington Examiner the allegation was made by multiple White House officials.

Despite the alleged tough words for Putin, one source told Swan that Trump's conversations with Putin are usually "a bit of a love fest."