On his wife’s birthday, President Trump decided to forgo a coronavirus briefing choosing to tweet instead.

He did not participate in a White House coronavirus briefing on Sunday, either prompting speculation that his extended appearances in those daily events were harming his approval ratings. The president has clashed with members of the press during those briefings, and, as he had Saturday, he offered harsh rebukes via Twitter of the media for its coverage of his presidency and coronavirus.

He began sending tweets criticizing reporters for not accurately portraying him as a leader who’s “gotten more done in the first 3 1/2 years than any President in history.” He named his usual targets, like CNN, “MSDNC” and The New York Times.

“I read a phony story in the failing @nytimes about my work schedule and eating habits, written by a third rate reporter who knows nothing about me,” He tweeted. “I will often be in the Oval Office late into the night & read & see that I am angrily eating a hamburger & Diet Coke in my bedroom.”

“People with me are always stunned,” he wrote about his work ethic. Possibly referring to an article in Thursday’s New York Times by Annie Karni and Katie Rogers that stated: “President Trump arrives in the Oval Office these days as late as noon when he is usually in a sour mood after his morning marathon of television.”

He then switched gears-Pulitzer Prizes reward journalistic excellence and impact.

On Sunday, in a thread that has since been deleted, Trump seemed to confuse those awards with Nobel Prizes, which he also misspelled.

“When will all of the ‘reporters’ who have received Noble Prizes for their work on Russia, Russia, Russia, only to have been proven totally wrong (and, in fact, it was the other side who committed the crimes), be turning back their cherished ‘Nobles’ so that they can be given to the REAL REPORTERS & JOURNALISTS who got it right,” the tweet read.

“Nobel,” “Noble,” “Noble Prize” and “Pulitzer” were all trending on Twitter shortly after.

The president brushed off the apparent mistake as sarcasm: “Does anybody get the meaning of what a so-called Noble (not Nobel) Prize is, especially as it pertains to Reporters and Journalists? Noble is defined as ‘having or showing fine personal qualities or high moral principles and ideals.’ Does sarcasm ever work?”

Even last week, after being slammed by medical professionals and cleaning product manufacturers over his suggestion Thursday of injecting disinfectants to counter coronavirus, Trump claimed he was asking a sarcastic question, “just to see what would happen.”

“I was asking a sarcastic — and a very sarcastic question — to the reporters in the room about disinfectant on the inside,” he said at an Oval Office bill signing Friday.