President Trump on Monday falsely claimed that former President Barack Obama and other past presidents didn’t call the families of fallen soldiers, before backtracking by saying that’s what he’d been told.

“The toughest calls I have to make are the calls where this happens — soldiers are killed. It’s a very difficult thing,” he said. “So the traditional way, if you look at President Obama and other presidents, most of them didn’t make calls, a lot of them didn’t make calls.”

Trump later backed off.

“President Obama, I think, probably did sometimes, and maybe sometimes he didn’t, I don’t know, that’s what I was told,” he said