President Donald Trump confirmed on Saturday that he is considering shifting the White House press corps to a new area.

Trump rejected a report claiming he intended to tear down the current press briefing room to bring back a historic swimming pool, stating he had never "even thought to do such a stupid thing,” Trump said on social media.

Still, he noted that moving reporters out of their existing White House space remains a possibility.

"I may move the Fake News to a less obnoxious location," Trump wrote in his post.

The New York Times reported Tuesday that Trump had suggested to then-press secretary Karoline Leavitt in August that news briefings be moved outside the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room, though the plan was not enacted.

That report claimed the president expressed a preference for the indoor therapy pool originally built during Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency.…