President Donald Trump clarified comments he made on Wednesday about hundreds of millions of barrels of oil he claimed to have secretly taken from Iran.

Trump hosted reporters on Wednesday morning at a bill signing ceremony in the Oval Office, where he claimed the mystery operation had been driving down global oil prices, even as fighting with Iran continues.

“We’ve been taking out millions of barrels of oil. Nobody knows it,” he said. “We’ve been taking out millions of barrels of oil, millions of barrels every night.”

“We took out the other night 22 ships late at night with no lights because they don’t have any radar,” the president added. “Because we blasted the crap out of it.”

Wednesday afternoon, however, Trump reframed the operation in a statement posted to Truth Social.

“Last month, I directed our Great U.S. Military to execute a secret mission to support Oil Tankers and other Commercial Ships through the Strait of Hormuz. Today, I am pleased to announce that this effort has resulted in more than 100 MILLION Barrels of Oil making its way through the Strait, and into the Open Market,” he wrote. “More than 200 Commercial Ships have safely traveled through the Strait.”

“This wildly successful effort is because the UNITED STATES of AMERICA CONTROLS the Strait of Hormuz — NOT Iran. Their military is defeated, and their economy is lost,” the president concluded.

Trump also seemed to confirm Wednesday morning that the United States won’t soon end its own strike campaign targeting Iran, now that ceasefire negotiations have been derailed.

“We’re going to be attacking them and attacking them very hard,” the president told reporters. “We’ll see what happens with a deal. We were really close to a deal, but they keep tapping us along, they keep playing us for suckers because, you know what, they dealt with some very stupid presidents. I have to say that, I’m embarrassed to say that, some very stupid people were sitting here.”