President Donald Trump threatened NBC on Wednesday after saying the network aired a false story about him, discussed trade with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the White House, and prepared to give a tax speech in Pennsylvania.

NBC ‘BAD FOR COUNTRY!’: TRUMP TWEET

Trump blasted NBC News for airing a report that he called “pure fiction” about his seeking a tenfold increase in the U.S. nuclear arsenal. On Twitter, he went on to say: “With all of the Fake News coming out of NBC and the Networks, at what point is it appropriate to challenge their License?” In spoken comments to reporters later, he said it was “frankly disgusting the way the press is able to write whatever they want to write.” Asked if he’d limit what the press can write, he replied that the media should report “more honestly.” Defense Secretary James Mattis said the “tenfold” report was “absolutely false.”



It isn’t clear how Trump would challenge NBC, a unit of Comcast CMCSA, -1.28% . As Politico explained, the Federal Communications Commission doesn’t license networks. The independent federal agency issues broadcast licenses to stations and overseas license holders.

The NBC report said it was after Trump made the nuclear-arsenal comment that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called him a “moron.” Tillerson hasn’t denied having made that characterization of Trump.

Read:Trump reportedly wanted a tenfold increase in U.S.’s nuclear arsenal.

‘WE’LL SEE’ IF NAFTA IS DEAD

Trump was asked by reporters if the North American Free Trade Agreement was dead. “We’ll see,” he said as he sat beside Trudeau in the Oval Office. “It’s possible we won’t be able to make a deal, and it’s possible that we will.” The U.S., Canada and Mexico, at Trump’s insistence, are negotiating a rewrite of the agreement, and talks have turned contentious. In one controversial move, the Trump administration was planning to propose a change that would force automobile factories in Mexico to move back to the U.S.

Read: Mexican peso holds near 5-month low amid uncertainty over Nafta.

TAX SPEECH ON TAP

Trump will speak in Harrisburg, Pa., and outline what he’s calling a $4,000 pay raise that would result from his tax plans. But economists are doubtful. One said corporations won’t raise wages for American workers as a result of corporate-tax changes. The administration and top lawmakers have released a tax-reform framework, but many details remain to be filled in.

See:The fuzzy math behind Trump saying corporate tax cut leads to $4,000 pay rise.

In a series of tweets Trump also cited stock-market gains since the election and said it would be “really nice” if the “Fake News Media” would report the growth.

Read: Dow industrials flirtation with 23,000 is a sign of the stock market’s velocity.