President Trump bristled at a question about anti-Semitism on Thursday, calling the suggestion that he holds prejudicial views a "repulsive" charge.

"I am the least anti-Semitic person you have ever seen in your entire life," Trump said during his first solo news conference since taking office.

"I am the least racist person," Trump added.

The president scolded the reporter who posed the question to him, part of a long series of criticisms against the media in general and against individual reporters at a lively press conference on Thursday.