Donald Trump said he disagrees with the “send her back” chant that rang throughout his North Carolina rally when he attacked Rep. Ilhan Omar.

“I was not happy with it,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “I disagree with it.”

The president for days has continued to attack Omar and three of her colleagues after saying they should “go back” to their home countries, even though they are all U.S. citizens. Only Omar, who came to the U.S. a refugee from Somalia, was born outside the country.

Trump also claimed that he tries to stop the chant, which is a lie, take a look:

TRUMP tells WH pool he "was not happy with" the "send her back" chant at his NC rally last night & tried to stop it; "I started speaking very quickly.”

The video shows that’s not true. pic.twitter.com/jIEUQ1nyIN

— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) July 18, 2019

When pressed about the chant echoing Tweets he had sent earlier in the week, Trump doubled down saying “I would say I was not happy I disagree with it but again, I didn’t say that. They did. But I disagree with it.”

Trump has aimed to connect the Democratic party to what many called “the squad” of recently elected Congresswomen of color, which includes in addition to Rep. Omar, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, and Rep. Rashida Tlaib.

It is worth noting that Trump started the xenophobic and racist attacks against these four women on Sunday morning, saying via Twitter that they should ostensibly go back to where they came from.

The chant has received mostly bi-partisan rebuke, though the majority of critics of the ugly chant have predictably come from the progressive side of the political spectrum.

WATCH:

NEW: Asked by @jonkarl about "send her back" chants, Trump says, "I disagree with it, by the way, but it was quite a chant and I felt a little bit badly about it."

"I was not happy with it, I disagree with it … I didn't say that, they did," he adds https://t.co/ffvUGASJK1 pic.twitter.com/9WueelV1v7

— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) July 18, 2019