Now Trump complains the media aren't reporting TERROR ATTACKS: White House drawing up list where examples didn't get 'coverage it deserved'

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President Donald Trump claimed Monday that terror attacks are happening 'all over Europe' but they're not being covered by the 'very, very dishonest press.'

The president did not provide any examples as he made the claim in front of troops stationed at MacDill Air Force base in Tampa, Florida.

His press secretary, Sean Spicer, told reporters aboard Air Force One, 'There’s a lot of instances where I don’t think they’ve gotten the coverage it deserved.' He did not name one, either.

'We’ll provide a list later,' he asserted, indicating in the gaggle that the president may have been thinking of foiled' attacks, in addition to murderous assaults.

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President Donald Trump claimed Monday that terror attacks are happening 'all over Europe' but they're not being covered by the 'very, very dishonest press.' On it's face, it's not obvious what attacks Trump was referring to when he hit the media with the broadside at MacDill

On it's face, it's not obvious what attacks Trump was referring to when he hit the media with the broadside at MacDill.

His senior counselor, Kellyanne Conway, had accused the press last week, on MSNBC, of ignoring a terrorism-driven massacre that was found to never have occurred. 

'President Obama had a six-month ban on the Iraqi refugee program after two Iraqis came here to this country, were radicalized, and they were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre. Most people don't know that because it didn't get covered,' Conway said.

The White House official says she 'misspoke' and meant to say 'terrorists.' Cosmo revealed Monday, however, that she made the mistake in an interview with their magazine, too.

She claimed two Iraqi nationals were the 'masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre' in a Jan. 29 interview. 

The refugees she was referring to were Iraqi, and they were living in Bowling Green, Kentucky, when they were arrested. They did not commit any acts of terror on America soil. Instead, they were taken into custody for trying to send weapons back to Iraq for use against American soldiers.

Trump on Monday similarly claimed that there are terror plots that are going unnoticed.

Speaking to U.S. Special Forces and U.S. Central Command soldiers, he said, 'We're up against an enemy that celebrates death and totally worships destruction. You've seen that. ISIS is on a campaign of genocide, committing atrocities across the world.

'Radical Islamic terrorists are determined to strike our homeland as they did on 9/11, as they did from Boston to Orlando to San Bernardino, and all across Europe,' he said. 'You've seen what happened in Paris and Nice. All over Europe, it's happening.'

He at that point added: 'It's gotten to a point where it's not even being reported. And in many cases the very, very dishonest press doesn't want to report it. They have their reasons, and you understand that.'

The president moved on without calling attention to any specific terrorist attack he believes the media is covering up. Spicer insisted later that there are 'a lot of instances,' however, that are being 'underreported.' 

'I think the president's comments were very clear at the time,' he told a reporter asking about the president's claim that the media has its 'reasons' for burying terror-related news.

Continuing, Spicer said, 'He felt members of the media don’t always cover some of those events to the extent that other events might get covered,' he explained. 'Protests will get blown out of the water, and yet an attack or a foiled attack doesn’t necessarily get the same coverage.'

The president's spokesman went on to claim that the press was unfairly covering Trump's travel ban, something the president had brought up earlier in a tweet.

'Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election. Sorry, people want border security and extreme vetting,' Trump had said. 

His senior counselor, Kellyanne Conway, had accused the press last week of ignoring a terrorism-driven massacre that was found to never have occurred. She told Fox she 'misspoke' and meant to say 'terrorists'

Spicer invoked Trump's gripe in his session with reporters riding Air Force One later. 

'I think sometimes the polls don’t reflect what you see on the media,' he said. 'You see a wide degree of support for the president’s policies to protect this country, to create jobs, to grow the economy. And yet a lot of those stories and success that he’s had – in a mere two and a half weeks in office – aren’t exactly covered to the degree to which they should be.' 

A CNN/ORC poll released Friday showed that 53 percent of Americans oppose the president's plan, which also suspended America's refugee program for 120 days, however.

Hours earlier a CBS News poll found 51 percent don't like Trump's approach.

The CNN and CBS polls surveyed Americans in phone calls, as did a Gallup poll. All three showed majorities opposing the policy.

But four online polls have found majorities or pluralities of Americans support the president. Those include surveys from Reuters/Ipsos, Rasmussen Reports, Public Policy Polling and YouGov/Huffington Post.

The Rasmussen poll, which was limited to likely voters, showed a 52-43 gap in Trump's favor.